Staff Specialist

**Position Title**: Staff Specialist - Gastroenterology and Hepatology
**Employment Type**: Temporary Fixed Term Maternity leave cover, 6 months with the option to extend for a further 6 months
**Hours per week**: 0.3 FTE
**Position Grade**: Staff Specialist
**Salary**: As per the award
**Enterprise Agreement**: The Named NSW (Non-Declared) Affiliated Health Organisations’ Staff Specialist Agreement 2021
**Department Name**:Gastroenterology

**About us**:
St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing health services to our community. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, integrity and justice, we promote a culture of diversity and inclusion and empower our people to learn, grow and innovate.

**Benefits of working at St Vincent’s include**:

- Generous salary packaging and Fitness Passport for eligible staff
- Opportunity to access a wide of range of clinical and non-clinical education programs
- Supported post graduate opportunities within applicable fields
- Career development opportunities across the St Vincent’s Health Australia Network
- Employee Assistance Program
- Work/Life balance

**Position Requirements**:

- Provision of inpatient and outpatient care as a member of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease service
- Provision of Gastroenterology services to patients designated as under your direct care, to outpatients and to patients you are asked to consult in Gastroenterology and Hepatology;
- Provision of procedural services including endoscopy (colonoscopy and gastroscopy)
- Experience in utilizing Faecal Microbial Transplantation (FMT);
- Promotion of good patient care and the good reputation of the department and the hospital;
- Participation in the on-call roster for the Department of Gastroenterology.
- Fulfil responsibilities as mentors for medical students and resident medical staff assigned to the department as required. This includes participation in staff appraisal at regular intervals particularly in relation to registrars & resident medical staff
- Supervise the junior medical staff and provide regular teaching and education in accordance with Clinical Education and Training Institute guidelines.
- Provide supervision and support for Fellows and Trainees in post graduate medical programmes including University programmes, Colleges and the Division of General practice.
- Provision of or willingness to provide intestinal ultrasound services;
**Diversity and Inclusion at St Vincent's**:
**Application Instructions**:
**Selection Criteria**:

- Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries and St Vincent’s

Health Australia.
- Possess specialist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and obtain a provider number from

Medicare to practice.
- Possess Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) based on specialist training in Gastroenterology, as provided

for in the Health Insurance Act
- Completed or undertaking higher degree (eg PhD) in the study of inflammatory bowel disease
- Possession of or working towards completion of international bowel ultrasound (IBUS) accreditation to perform intestinal ultrasound
- Demonstrated knowledge, skills and high standards of clinical practice in Gastroenterology and Hepatology commensurate to experience

which is appropriate to the requirements of the position; including experience being part of a dedicated inflammatory bowel disease clinical

service
- Demonstrated ongoing contribution to the development, dissemination, and translation of new knowledge and practices commensurate

with work in an academic teaching hospital environment; including undertaking of postgraduate research into Inflammatory Bowel Disease

and the expansion of Faecal Microbial Transplant services
- Demonstrated ability to provide high quality compassionate medical care as evidenced by recent practice experience in working congenially

and collaboratively as both a leader and member of a multidisciplinary team, and as a provider of services that engender high levels of

patient satisfaction and experience.

**Applications close on 22/01/25