Head of Department

**Position Title**: Head of Department - Immunopathology + Staff Specialist Clinical Immunologist (SydPath)

**Employment Type**: HoD - Temporary for 3 years with the option to extend, Permanent 0.4 Staff Specialist, Immunopathology SydPath

Permanent 0.1 Clinical Immunology

**Hours per week**: 0.5 FTE (0.4 Immunopathology SydPath; 0.1 Clinical Immunology)

**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**: SydPath

**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**:
**Head of Department - Immunopathology**
- Provides strategic and operational leadership for Immunopathology, and to be responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality, safe, and effective services.
- Implements the strategic direction of the Department consistent with that of SydPath.
- Promotes clinical standards and clinical governance accountabilities for medical staff within the department, as an integrated part of the multidisciplinary team, actively leading the implementing systems for clinical measurement, benchmarking, and continuous improvement.
- Creates and leads a culture that attracts, trains, retains and empowers high calibre medical and other staff within the department/ service.
- Organises and coordinates senior and junior medical staff within the Department for the provision of safe, effective and efficient service delivery, training, research, and Department accreditation.
- Effectively acts to manage risks, including psychosocial hazards, in line with the organisation’s governance frameworks, industry standards, and legislation; actively creating and building a workplace culture that values respectful interactions, open communication, and collaborative problem solving.
- Develops strategies to effectively manage work flow and implementation of evidence-based practices and sustainable management of services.
- Directly participate in the reporting of Sydpath Immunopathology incorporating HIV diagnostics and flow cytometry services
- Represent Immunopathology at meetings, discussions and committees overseeing the overall development and management of Sydpath
- Functions as a senior leader, providing high quality leadership, management, and ongoing service development.

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

- Full medical registration with AHPRA
- Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Have appropriate skill base and recency of practice in Immunopathology to report, oversee and trouble-shoot the full diversity of testing undertaken at Sydpath which includes high complexity HIV testing, flow cytometry in the diagnosis of haematological malignancies and testing for autoimmunity, allergy, immunodeficiency and immunochemistry.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively lead and manage human resources including performance management.
- Demonstrated personal qualities of clinical leadership including clear communication of complex concepts to a variety of audiences, problem solving, time management, motivation, initiative, negotiation and team building.
- Commitment to workplace health and safety, equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory behaviour in line with

**Staff Specialist Clinical Immunologist**
- Provision of clinical services to inpatients designated as under your direct care, to outpatients and to
- patients you are asked to consult in Clinical Immunology;
- Provision of professional leadership, training, education, and supervision to junior medical staff and other
- health care members within the department, and to be an active contributor to the multidisciplinary patient
- care team;
- Participation in patient safety, audit, research and service planning activities;
- Promotion of good patient care and the good reputation of the department and the hospital;
- Participation in the Immunology and HIV on-call rosters for the HIV and Immunology Department

**Selection Criteria**:

- Possess specialist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) or equivalent as provided