Staff Specialist

**Employment Type**:Temporary - 12 months (0.5 FTE)
**Position Classification**:Staff Specialist
**Location**:Wollongong Hospital
**Hours Per Week**:20
**Requisition ID**:REQ377880

The Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District is looking for a Staff Specialist 0.5 FTE to join the Paediatrics team at the Wollongong Hospital on a temporary basis.

The Paediatrician will provide expert medical assessment and management of patients within the Paediatric Service.

The Paediatrician is responsible for the provision of specialist paediatric services to emergency patients, inpatients and outpatients at the relevant Hospital.

The Paediatrician will ensure provision of high quality paediatric services to all patients within the Illawarra

Shoalhaven Local Health District. The Paediatrician will proactively:

- Support the development of paediatric services
- Support and facilitate a culture of learning and best practice
- Support and develop paediatric research within the department

The Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) has responsibility for health services in the Illawarra Shoalhaven region - a catchment area extending along the coastline from Helensburgh in the north to North Durras in the south with over 400,000 residents. This catchment covers four Local Government Areas (LGAs): Wollongong, Kiama, Shellharbour and Shoalhaven. ISLHD operates eight hospital sites in Coledale, Bulli, Wollongong, Port Kembla, Shellharbour, Berry, Shoalhaven and Milton Ulladulla, and community health services operating from approximately 58 locations across the region. ISLHD is one of the region’s largest employers with a workforce of more than 8,500 staff.

Wollongong Hospital is the largest of Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District’s eight hospitals, treating more than 48,000 patients annually. It is the region’s tertiary referral hospital servicing a population of more than 400,000 people. The Wollongong Hospital is a 500+ bed centre which provides both general and specialty medical and surgical services including adult intensive care and coronary care units. The hospital has a 24 bed children’s ward and 12 bed Level 4 Special Care Nursery caring for infants from 32 weeks gestation.

An academic suite at Wollongong Hospital supports both the Graduate School of Medicine and School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Wollongong. As such there are teaching and research opportunities through the UOW Graduate School of Medicine.

ISLHD is one of the region’s largest employers with a workforce of more than 8,500 across eight hospital sites and community health services.

ISLHD leadership is strongly committed to facilitating clinical research. Tangible evidence of this commitment is the significant investment in the infrastructure to support research. ISLHD has a well
- developed research support unit that offers staff an extensive range of research support services including: assistance in the development of the research study design, biostatistics support, data analysis, and help writing final research publications, as well assistance with the ethics and governance processes.

**Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District is committed to equal employment opportunity and embraces diversity and inclusion within its workforce. As such, people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. This includes but is not limited to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, People with Disability, Women and People from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds.**

An eligibility list may be created for future Temporary Part-Time positions.

All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). Additionally, Category A workers are required to receive a booster dose three months after completing the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations. New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (IM011 immunisation medical exemption form) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.

You will be required to provide a record of your COVID-19 vaccination status if successful. Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate.

**_NSW Health does not require or accept the ‘Fit2Work badge’ offered as an option in eCredential_**

**Selection Criteria**:

- Specialist registration or eligible for specialist registration as a Medical Practitioner with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians - Paediatric and Child Health Division and/or equivalent specialist recognition.
- Evidence of continuing medical education and self-monitoring/audit practices consistent wi