Consultant Palliative Medicine Specialist

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 57539

**About Monash Health**

**About Monash Doctors**

There are more than 1,300 Junior Medical staff positions at Monash Health in over 200 medical specialties, to help grow your career. We offer unparalleled opportunities in Victoria's largest & most clinically diverse teaching health service.

**About the Supportive & Palliative Care Unit**

The Supportive and Palliative Care Unit of Monash Health is broad and varied, and operationally based at McCulloch House at Clayton. The unit is comprised of the following:

- A 16-bed inpatient palliative care unit at McCulloch House and 5-bed unit at Casey Hospital.
- The Palliative Care Consultancy Service - seeing patients at each Monash Health campus (Clayton, Dandenong, Casey, Moorabbin and Kingston)
- Outpatient Services - OncoPain Clinic (refractory cancer pain clinic), RAPID Service (palliative care inreach program), Palliative Care Hospital in the Home collaboration, Supportive Care Clinic and Palliative Care Virtual Clinics (telehealth)
- Research Support
- A specialist multidisciplinary team including pastoral care, music therapy, social work and a volunteer program

The Supportive and Palliative Care department is a designated integrated palliative care and oncology centre of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO). It is a Monash University academic unit with varied research interests, and an accredited site for advanced training in palliative medicine.

The broader unit is medically staffed by 9 consultants, 1 fellow, 4 registrars (undertaking advanced training in palliative medicine or a clinical diploma) as well as specialist psycho-oncology support and an intern based at McCulloch House. The service is further staffed by a number of skilled clinical nurse consultants across the multi-campus consultation liaison service, and a specialist multidisciplinary team within our inpatient units.

**About the Role**

This is a fixed term maternity leave cover opportunity to join our team. The appointee will be administratively accountable to the Director of Supportive and Palliative Care and the Medical Director of the Cancer Services Program at Monash Health (Prof William Sievert) for all clinical service delivery and clinical governance issues.

The role will be focused on palliative medicine provision within a consultation liaison site and service at Monash Health, however the consultant will have opportunity to be involved in a number of aspects of our service. Additional opportunities exist to support the Rapid Response Palliative Care Integrated Community Inreach Service to provide a bridge between inpatient care and the community, and to provide leave cover to clinics and inpatient palliative care duties as required.

The appointee will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide safe and effective person centered care, provide teaching and supervision of junior medical staff and students, and participate in a rotating on-call roster for after hours support.

Please note - palliative medicine consultants may be required to work across all Monash Health campuses.

**What you need**:

- Be a legally qualified medical practitioner, registered or registrable with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Hold a Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians or an equivalent post-graduate qualification as recognised by the National Specialist Qualification Advisory Committee and be a member of the RACP's Chapter of Palliative Medicine or be eligible to be a member.
- Have appropriate academic credentials in palliative medicine.

Additionally expertise in refractory symptom management, consultative palliative care services, community palliative care and telehealth models is desirable.

**What we offer**:
Salary packaging

Onsite discounted staff parking

Discounted banking (BankVic)

Onsite Gym

Access to professional development courses and seminars

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

**How to Apply**

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children's Check (or proof of payment for same)
- proof of immunisation

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.