Consultant Gastroenterologist

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 59196

We seek gastroenterologist to join a vibrant and thriving academic gastroenterology service at Monash Health.

**About Monash Health**

Monash Health provides healthcare across south-eastern Melbourne, uniquely integrating primary, secondary and tertiary health services, as well as world-renowned research and teaching facilities in one organisation. Monash Health is affiliated with Monash University, the Hudson Institute of Medical Research, all of whom are partners in the Monash Health Translation Precinct.

We provide access to public health services for a greater community of 1.3 million residents or 24 per cent of Victoria’s population. Over 16,000 staff work at more than 40 care locations across south-eastern Melbourne, including Monash Medical Centre, Moorabbin Hospital, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, Kingston Centre, Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre, and an extensive network of rehabilitation, community health and mental health facilities.

On average each year:

- We provide more than 3.1 million episodes of care to our community
- More than 238,851 people are admitted to our hospitals
- More than 206,602 people come to our three Emergency Departments for treatment

**About us**

Monash Gastroenterology is Victoria’s largest gastroenterology unit. We care for 3000 inpatients per /year, provide 10,000 endoscopic procedures, and see 18,000 outpatients per annum across a range of speciality clinics including IBD, general gastroenterology, hepatobiliary, endoscopy, liver, decompensated liver, NASH, liver cancer. In addition, we offer intestinal ultrasound, fibro scan, and infusion services.

We provide services at Clayton, Dandenong, and Casey, with two ward teams (Clayton and Dandenong), three endoscopy units (Clayton, Dandenong, and Casey), five outpatient sites, and a 24-hour registrar led, but consultant driven GI bleeding service for Clayton and Dandenong. The team currently comprises thirty-six gastroenterologists, 5 accredited and 2 non-accredited registrars I advanced training, 5 research fellows, 6 junior medical staff, and a large clinical trials unit providing regulatory support, GCP, and research nurse support, for commercial drug trials and both clinical and laboratory investigator-initiated research.

**About you**

The Gastroenterology Consultant will be expected to provide care to patients in endoscopy, hospital wards, infusional suites, and in ambulatory care clinics and suites within Monash Health. Successful applicants must be accredited to perform gastroscopy and colonoscopy and maintain competencies required by GESA and RACP, including participation in the colonoscopy re-certification and CPD programs. There is also opportunity to participate in research and quality assurance activities.

This role would be suited to a qualified general gastroenterologist and to those who have further advanced training in IBD or hepatology.

This will involve:

- Supervision of inpatient services in conjunction with the registrar and junior medical officers
- Provision of inpatient consultation to other hospital units
- Delivery of endoscopic services at Monash Clayton, Dandenong, and Casey Hospitals.
- Attendance at weekly hospital and community-based outpatient clinics.
- Attendance at multidisciplinary team meetings based on subspecialty interest.
- Participation at the weekly Clinical Sciences meeting/journal club plus fortnightly pathology/ radiology review and teaching sessions
- Participation in the 24 hours on call roster for admissions, inpatient services, and urgent endoscopy for patients at Clayton and Dandenong.

Required qualifications include: MBBS (or equivalent) FRACP, CCCTRGE accreditation, good communication skills, and the ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.

**How to Apply**
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- 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);and
- proof of immunisation.
- A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.
- 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.