Inflammatory Bowel Disease Post Graduate Fellow

**Description**

**‘Creating exceptional health care together.’**

**Position Title**:**Inflammatory Bowel Disease Post Graduate Fellow

**Employment Type**:Full time
**Classification**:**Post Graduate Fellow
**Salary**:$218,553 (pa) plus 17.4% on call allowance
**Location**:Canberra Hospital
**Section**:Medicine
**Closing Date**:**3 August 2025

**What can we offer you**:

- City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra
- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions
- 11.5% Superannuation
- To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services

**About the role**:
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person-centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding regions. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Medical Staff in the Canberra Health Services enjoy excellent conditions, and our Enterprise Agreement is available at: ACTPS Medical Practitioners Enterprise Agreement 2021-2022
- The Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit at Canberra Hospital provides consultative and endoscopic services for persons with digestive diseases, including liver and biliary tract disease.
- The Unit provides:

- 1. Inpatient care of patients with gastroenterological and diseases.
- 2. Consulting service.
- 3. Endoscopic procedures.
- 4. Clinics for patients with viral hepatitis, liver disease, IBD, inherited gastrointestinal cancer and complex gastrointestinal disorders; and
- 5. Clinics, support and follow up for participants in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.

The IBD Service

The IBD Service is one of the largest in Australia with three IBD consultants and 2.0 full-time equivalent registered nurses who manage over 560 patients on biological agents and an additional 1500 on standard therapies. The outpatient clinics have expanded into a multidisciplinary IBD service at which patients have access to colorectal surgical, dietetic, and psychological advice when necessary. There are several clinical trials of new therapeutic agents accessible to patients. The IBD Service also participates in various national research consortia.

This is a one-year position intended for an RACP Post Graduate Fellow who has completed the three-year Gastroenterology Advanced Training program and has Conjoint Committee for the Recognition of Training in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (CCRTGE) Certification for gastroscopy and colonoscopy.

The IBD Training Program seeks to train the future leaders in IBD management and will provide the Post Graduate Fellow with the skills to manage IBD patients at an expert level.

To that end, the major goals are to:

- Develop expertise in the management of patients suffering from the IBDs.
- Participate in clinical trials of new agents for the treatment of these conditions.
- Develop skills in clinical and/or basic scientific research in these conditions.
- Clinical duties will include outpatient IBD clinics, ward consults particularly relating to IBD patients, review of IBD patients in the Day Therapy Unit, attendance at weekly IBD patient review sessions, monthly multidisciplinary IBD meetings, monthly IBD surgical review sessions with colorectal surgeons and other duties encompassed in the clinical management of IBD patients.
- The Post Graduate Fellow would be expected to attend IBD transition clinics every two months serviced by a paediatrician and closely collaborate with other relevant specialties including rheumatology, dermatology and the Fetal Medicine Unit. Support will be provided to the Fellow to develop skills in bedside assessment including small bowel ultrasound.
- In addition to this, the successful applicant would be required to lead a Rapid Access Clinic, a general gastroenterology clinic and independently perform at least two general endoscopy lists per week. They will be expected to contribute to other activities including participating in the general on-call roster, inpatient care, and attending scientific and quality assurance meetings.

The Post Graduate Fellow will be expected to partake in active research projects that are currently in progress within the unit and to initiate their own projects. It is expected that the successful applicant will take up the position with a research plan already developed and that they will publish at least one paper in a peer-reviewed journal during the year and present at a national or international conference. The fellow would also be able to be expected to be involved in developing protocols for IBD management.
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- Comply with Canberra Health