Staff Specialist

**Position Title**:Staff Specialist - Lung Transplantation

**Employment Type**:Permanent

**Hours per week**:32 (0.8 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**:Thoracic Medicine and Lung Transplantation

**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**:
This role encompasses the provision of expert and high quality clinical services to patients designated as under your direct care, to outpatients via both Face to Face and Telehealth consultation, and to patients you are asked to consult in Lung transplantation and Thoracic Medicine. Other roles include:

- Provision of interventional and diagnostic respiratory services, including bronchoscopy and trans-bronchial lung biopsy.
- Provide acute and chronic care to Lung transplant and Advanced Lung Disease patients within a multi-disciplinary team environment.
- Lead and participate in the development of research and academia in the field of Lung Transplantation and Advanced Lung Diseases.
- Undertake quality improvement activities within the department
- Participate in supervision and teaching duties at specialist, registrar, junior medical officer and undergraduate levels.
- Promotion of excellent patient care and excellent reputation of the department and the hospital.
- A commitment to participation in a shared on-call Lung transplant and Thoracic Medicine roster.
- Promotion of the safe transition of paediatric lung transplant recipients to an Adult Lung Transplant centre.

**Diversity and Inclusion at St Vincent's**:
**About you**:
**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, or be eligible to possess, specialist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and possess Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) or equivalent.
- Has undertaken post-FRACP Fellowship training in the field of adult lung transplantation at a recognised high-volume national or international Lung Transplant and Advanced Lung Diseases centre.
- Experience practicing at consultant (Staff Specialist) level in lung transplantation. Expertise in the management of patients requiring extra-corporeal life support and paediatric lung transplantation is desirable.
- Current interventional bronchology skill subset to include fibre-optic bronchoscopy and transbronchial lung biopsy. Additional endobronchial ultrasound expertise is desirable.
- Evidence of first-author publication/s in high-impact journal/s in the field of lung transplantation or advanced lung disease.
- Enrollment or intention to enroll in a higher degree in the field of lung transplantation and/or advanced lung diseases
- Leadership skills that support improvement of the quality of services, patient care outcomes in a multi-disciplinary team, innovation and learning culture.

**Applications close on 11/12/23