Consultant - Palliative Care

**Job no**: 851264
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Medical
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Modbury Hospitals - Modbury**:

- **Total Indicative Remuneration: $340,427 - $765,470 p.a. (pro rata) - MD2**:

- **Permanent Part-Time and Temporary Part-Time up to 15 hours per week.**

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

**About You**:
Are you dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

**About the Role**:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Consultant within the Palliative Care Department

The successful applicant will
- Contribute to the provision of high standard clinical services to patients of and referred to the area palliative care service.
- Responsible for managing the care of patients allocated to them in collaboration with other staff including fellow Consultants, Nurses, Junior Medical Officers and Allied Health professionals of the NALHN Palliative Care Service.
- Providing supportive and educative Palliative Care services including medical services to inpatients and outpatients of NALHN including patients in community outreach programs within the NALHN catchment area.
- Contributing to and supervising staff and student development and training, policy planning and education in palliative care
- Contributing to research with in ACRPC and supporting NAPS in developing a culture of multidisciplinary research
- Contributing to the medical leadership and management of the Northern Adelaide Palliative Service to support patient care
- Contributing to and supervising the teaching of medical undergraduates and graduates which contributes to the achievement of the goals and objectives of NALHN.

Services will be provided across the NALHN and may include some visits to rural South Australia.

To be eligible for this position, you must have a Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or equivalent. Appropriate Specialist Qualifications and registrable with the Medical Board of Australia as a Medical Practitioner with Specialist registration; or another qualification as defined in the SA Medical Officers Award.

The Total Indicative Remuneration figure is calculated taking into account base salary, leave loading and superannuation as well as managerial allowances, professional development or any other allowances where appropriate.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

**Check(s)**
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged car