Consultant Radiologist Monash Breast Screen

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 59865

**About Monash Health**

**About Monash Doctors**

There are more than 900 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 Monash Health Breast Services and Monash BreastScreen

Monash BreastScreen is the largest Reading and Assessment Service (RAS) in Victoria. It provides

Breast Cancer screening, reading and assessment services for approximately 60,500 women per year in the South Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. The RAS is located at Moorabbin Hospital. There are seven fixed screening sites plus a mobile screening service that visits 2 locations in the catchment. Each year approximately 3,000 women are recalled to the Assessment Clinic for further imaging and clinical assessment.

As part of Monash Breast Services, Monash BreastScreen is a key component of an integrated continuum of multidisciplinary care for women from screening and diagnosis through assessment of symptoms, diagnosis and management of breast cancer and benign breast disease.

**About the Role**

We are seeking a specialist radiologist experienced in Breast Imaging, in particular screening mammography, to undertake a weekly screen reading session at our Reading and Assessment Service at Moorabbin Hospital. See attached PD

The VMO radiologist will be responsible for:

- Reading the agreed number of screening mammograms in a timely way as rostered and completing the required electronic data entry as part of BreastScreen Victoria.
- Participating in quality review activities as indicated by the Clinical Director/Designated Radiologist for Monash BreastScreen, in particular as they relate to cancer detection rates, recall to assessment rates and activities designed to improve practice, including review of quarterly individual performance data.
- Undertaking regular performance appraisal to ensure participation meets the national accreditation standards of Breastscreen Australia
- Supporting and assisting the Clinical Director, Monash BreastScreen, Monash Health in the provision of high quality Breast Screening Services at Monash Health, consistent with the Monash Health values.
- .**What we offer**:

- Salary packaging
- Onsite discounted staff parking
- Discounted banking (BankVic)
- Onsite Gym
- Access to professional development courses and seminars

**What you need**
- Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Appropriate health professional tertiary qualifications
- Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologisits or equivalent
- Working with Children's Certificate

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.
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.