Visiting Medical Officer

**Position Title**: Visiting Medical Officer - ENT - General / Rhinology and Anterior skull base surgery

**Employment Type**: Quinquennium up until 30.06.2027

**Hours per week**:Zero hours, sessional contract

**Position Grade**: Visiting Medical Officer

**Salary**: As per the award

**Enterprise Agreement**: Public Hospitals (Visiting Medical Officers Sessional Contracts) Determination

**Department Name**: EAR NOSE THROAT

**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**:
St Vincent’s is a world leader in the diagnosis and management of diseases of the ear, nose and throat, and the related structures of the head and neck. The successful applicant will provide care for the nose, sinuses and related structures including anterior skull based surgery. Conditions to be managed include treatment of complex sinonasal disease, tumours and other anterior skull base conditions.

The successful applicant will provide two half day elective operating sessions per month primarily to public patients, noting that the number of allocated sessions available may vary over time depending upon resources available, strategic priorities and clinical demand. The successful applicant must work to ensure the numbers of elective waiting list patients do not exceed the National and State waiting time benchmarks or exceed the capacity of the contractually agreed theatre time availability to undertake the wait list cases, in accordance with NSW Health Policy.

Clinical duties include participation in the on-call roster and the provision of consultative and emergency surgery services to patients who present and / or admitted to from the Emergency Department. Postgraduate and undergraduate teaching is expected.

**Diversity and Inclusion at St Vincent's**:
**Application Instructions**:
**Selection Criteria**:
- Possess, or be eligible to possess, specialist registration with the Medical Board of Australia and obtain a provider number from Medicare to practice- Possess Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery or equivalent as provided for in the Health Insurance Act 1997.- Have post-fellowship training in rhinology and skull base surgery or equivalent- Demonstrate academic qualifications through established research in skull base tumours and inflammatory sinus disease through publications and/or post-graduate research.- Demonstrated leadership skills that support and foster innovation to create a learning culture, with proven ability to improve the quality of services and patient care outcomes- Demonstrated ability to provide high quality compassionate medical care as evidenced by recent practice experience in working congenially and collaboratively as both a leader and member of a multidisciplinary team, and as a provider of services that engender high levels of patient satisfaction and experience.- Demonstrated ongoing contribution to the development, dissemination, and translation of new knowledge and practices commensurate with work in an academic teaching hospital environment- Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries- For enquiries about the position, please contact Dr Tony Grabs, Program Director, Acute Program, on 02 8382 2291

Applications close on 3 October 2025