Principal House Officer

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
- In addition, to provide assistance and guidance in the professional development of junior staff, medical students and non-medical staff, whilst continuing own professional development, in order to maximise the professional expertise offered to patients.
- The position will be solely in the Molecular Imaging Department providing - diagnostic PET/CT and PET/MRI services.
- Fulfil the accountabilities and responsibilities of this role in accordance with Metro South's purpose and objectives, as outlined below.
- To provide ethical decision making in the achievement of organisational goals
- In consultation with treating specialist, ensure decisions regarding patient care are appropriate and plan ongoing specialist care.
- Maintain appropriate comprehensive and concise documentation of all observations, opinions, diagnoses, other data and procedures undertaken.
- Provide formal and informal ongoing on-the-job training and guidance to junior medical staff and students.
- Provide education on Diagnostic Imaging, PET/CT and PET/MRI through training seminars and tutorials to medical staff.
- Contribute to and support clinical unit improvement activities, through identifying areas for improvement and participating in implementation.
- Maintain up-to-date college mandated requirements and demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development, through self-directed learning and attendance at courses and training through the hospital.
- Actively participate in Hospital's Integrated Risk Management and Safety program, including participation in Incident Monitoring System and Root Cause Analysis where appropriate.
- Ensure patients and other staff are treated fairly and with mutual respect and understanding, regardless of cultural, religious, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.
- Lead and manage staff by fostering and committing to patient safety and quality in the delivery of health care by maintaining and evaluating safety and quality practices and initiatives.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 (Health Employment Directive No. 12/21 (PDF)and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70 (PDF))