Staff Specialist

**Position Title**: Staff Specialist - Thoracic Medicine
**Employment Type**: Permanent
**Hours per week**: 0.4 FTE (16 hours)
**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**:Respiratory and Sleep Medicine

**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

**About the role**:

- Provision of clinical services to patients designated as under your direct care, to outpatients and to patients you are asked to consult in Thoracic Medicine;
- Provision of clinical services to patients as designated under your direct care, to outpatients and to patients you are asked to consult in with sleep related disorders;
- Provision of interventional and diagnostic respiratory services, including interventional bronchoscopy, thoracic ultrasound and insertion of chest drains, and complex pulmonary function tests;
- Experience in the development of multidisciplinary outpatient services; familiarity with the leading better value care model would be desirable;
- As St Vincent’s will be a referral center for the National Lung Cancer screening program, experience working in a multidisciplinary lung nodule assessment clinic, and a commitment to the development of a model of care for this service would be desirable.
- Lead and participate in the development of research and academia within the Department, particularly in the field of Sleep, chronic airways disease and pulmonary physiology;
- Participate in teaching duties at specialty registrar, junior medical officer and undergraduate levels;
- Promotion of good patient care and the good reputation of the department and the hospital;
- Participation in out-of-hours on-call respiratory medicine roster.

**Diversity and Inclusion at St Vincent's**:
**About you**:
**Application Instructions**:
**Selection Criteria**:

- Possess, or be eligible to possess, specialist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA); and possess Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) or equivalent as provided for in the Staff Specialist’s State Award.
- Has fulfilled all RACP requirements for accreditation as a Specialist in Thoracic Medicine and has worked in this capacity without supervision for at least 1 year.
- Is prepared to provide clinical services in Thoracic Medicine including participation in an on-call roster and direct patient care. This will include undertaking a clinic
- Experience in fibreoptic bronchoscopy including bronchial washings, endobronchial and transbronchial lung biopsies.
- Accreditation in Thoracic Ultrasound and experience in teaching and supervising
- Registrars in this skill is desirable.
- A strong background in teaching of students and Registrars and a leadership role in
- Thoracic education would be highly desirable.
- Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries.