Clinical Forensic Medicine Cmo.2

**Description**

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

**Position Title**:**Clinical Forensic Medicine

**Employment Type**:Part Time
**Classification**:**CMO.2
**Salary**: $176,425 - $209,516 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:Canberra Health Services
**Section**:Division of Medicine
**Closing Date**:**21**April 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
- Flexible working conditions
- 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 CHS Division of Medicine provides a range of medical specialties and allied health services. A strong emphasis is placed across all sections on accessible and timely care, delivered to a high standard of safety and quality. This is underpinned by the Division’s commitment to research and training. The Division works in partnership with professional colleagues, consumers, and a range of government and non-government service providers to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients.
- Clinical Forensic Medical Services (CFMS) is a locally based well established clinical service that provides forensic medical care to patients from the ACT and surrounding areas. CFMS comprises of Clinical Forensics ACT (CFACT), a contracted medical service to the AFP, Forensic and Medical Sexual Assault Care (FAMSAC), the ACT Health based sexual assault service, and Fitness To Drive Medical Clinic (FTDMC). CFMS is a medical unit within Canberra Health Services, with requirements and support for ongoing professional development of all staff.
- Under the direction of the CFMS Medical Director, the Forensic Medical Officer role is responsible for the provision of a comprehensive range of medical forensic care services for individuals affected by sexual assault and/or domestic violence, persons in custody, police officers, and assessing a patient’s medical ability and/or capacity to drive within the Medical Standards for Licensing and Clinical Management Guidelines.
- Note: These are 12-month temporary part-time positions from sixteen (16) hours to sixty-four (64) hours per fortnight with the possibility of extension. These positions will be required to participate in afterhours, on call and/or rotation roster.

**Duties**:
Under limited direction of the Clinical Director you will:

- 1. Ability to participate in both a daytime and an after-hours roster to provide high quality clinical forensic medicine and related services including:

- Assessment of individuals as requested by the AFP (including death scene attendance, provision of medical care to detainees in the Regional Watch House and those allegedly involved in sexual and general assaults).
- Obtaining of biological samples with patient consent.
- Assessment of an individual’s fitness to be interviewed and fitness for custody.
- Providing advice to police and nursing staff on psychiatrically disturbed or intellectually impaired persons (where no other appropriate services are available).
- Provision of medico-legal reports for CFMS cases. Including expert evidence and opinions for the purposes of legal process and to the courts.
- Adherence to relevant legislation, policies and procedures regarding the duties of forensic medical officers.
- Participation in educational and audit activities in the field of clinical forensic medicine.
- To provide expert evidence in legal jurisdictions including criminal and civil proceedings.
- Other medical services as requested.
- 2. Provide comprehensive forensic and medical care for women and men who have experienced a recent sexual assault including the medico-legal examinations and comprehensive documentation and associated medico-legal reports.
- 3. Willingness to participate in CFMS after-hours on call rosters. Must undertake a minimum of fifty-two (52) after hours shifts per year, including weekends and public holiday shifts unless approved leave has been taken.
- 4. Provision of general forensic medical services under the CFMS service agreement to the Australian Federal Police including working with and supervision of nursing staff employed by the Clinical Forensic Medical Service