Consultant Paediatrician

**The Role**: Applications are invited for suitably experienced Senior Consultant/Consultant Paediatricians to take on a new challenge. - City living without the traffic. - 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. - Generous leave provisions, including up to 4 weeks training/education leave and up to 5 weeks annual leave per annum. - Medical Education Expenses allowance reimbursement up to $19,782 per annum - Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions. The Division of Women, Youth and Children (WYC) provides a broad range of primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare services. Service provision is based on a family-centred, interdisciplinary approach to care, in partnership with consumers and other service providers. - There is a tertiary accredited Level 6 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The hospital also offers subspecialty paediatric care in areas of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes and Paediatric Surgery. - The Outpatient department includes a range of multidisciplinary clinics and is actively supported by staff specialists and visiting consultants. - There is a Paediatric Surgical Unit that performs a wide range of paediatric and neonatal surgery and is an accredited paediatric surgical training centre. The emergency department for the Hospital sees over 18,000 paediatric presentations per year and is accredited with the Royal College of Physicians (RACP) for paediatric basic training and Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM) training. - The department has an FRACP training program with a paediatric fellow, 10 registrars, 6 SRMO positions and 5 PGY2 positions. There is an active junior doctor teaching program which is producing quality trainees interested in continuing in paediatrics. Involvement in departmental teaching is required and research is encouraged and supported.- The Staff Specialist will work alongside the paediatricians in the Paediatric Department and will report operationally and professionally to the Unit Director of Paediatrics and the Executive Director, Medical Services**The Hospital**: The Hospital is a modern 600+ bed tertiary trauma and referral hospital providing services to a population of 500,000. The hospital provides services in all specialties except major burns, spinal injuries and solid organ transplantation. There are accredited training programs in all major specialties.**The Location**: This city is extremely clean, tidy, efficient, safe and low crime compared to just about any other city. Very "outdoor" and "environmentally" focused and truly unique in that you have this CBD with excellent work opportunities literally set amongst stunning bush land that is always only a 5 min walk away from anywhere. If you love bushwalking, cycling, exploring, being active etc then it's a win win. - The climate is favourable - having four seasons is a treat - and the air is fresh, only two hours from the beach, two hours to the snow and a little longer drive for those big city experiences. Direct International flights operating from the local airport, making travelling abroad easy too. - The road network and lack of traffic is just awesome, it's a pleasure to drive around, you arrive relaxed, calm and not feeling rushed at your destination. - An amazing network of well educated, broad thinking professionals from the universities and local business. There is a thriving start-up and entrepreneurial culture now and many highly successful businesses have been born out of this city because the whole ecosystem and all the support from the Uni's and government is located right here. The city is full of innovative thinkers.- Awesome restaurant and cafe culture, you have a wonderful array of choice, the city has more restaurants per capita than any other Australian city..._ **Essential**: - Be registered or be eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). - Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) or equivalent high specialist qualifications - The hospital is leading the drive to digitally transform health service delivery in Australia through the implementation of a territory wide Digital Health Record. Computer literacy skills are required which are relevant to this role as you will be responsible for completing required documentation and becoming a proficient user of the Digital Health Record and/or other Information Technology systems; once proficient, you will need to remain current with changes, updates and contingencies. **Selection criteria**: - Be registered or eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) - Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians or equivalent specialist q