Vfpms Sessional Specialist

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Part time

**Salary**:$100,000 - $200,000

**Grade**:Undefined

**Occupation**: Health and Allied Health

**Location**: Parkville

**Reference**: 13360

**VFPMS Sessional Specialist**
- Excellent employee benefits including salary packaging
- Hub of medical precinct in Parkville, Melbourne
- Challenging and rewarding work environment

**About the role**

This is a Part Time, ongoing position at 0.2 FTE/14 hours per fortnight within the VFPMS.

You will be responsible for
- Providing paediatric forensic medical services to children suspected of being physically or sexually abused or neglected
- Producing high quality forensic paediatric medical reports
- Utilising clinical skills and knowledge to coordinate patient care across sites and to initiate a holistic approach to patient care

**What you’ll achieve**:

- You will develop working partnerships with referrers, other health service professionals, and community agencies
- You will provide supervision, teaching and training to Junior Medical staff including Advanced Trainees of RACP
- You will contribute constructively and effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team

**Your skills and experience**

Essentials:

- FRACP (or international equivalent) with a specialisation in paediatric medicine
- Specialist medical registration with AHPRA

Desirable:

- MForensMed or equivalent

If this sounds like you, click here to view the position description.

**About the Department**

The Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service (VFPMS) operates as a Centre of Excellence for Child Abuse and Forensic Paediatric Medicine. This means that the service
- operates as a tertiary hospital referral centre,
- provides 24/7 advice and secondary consultations for Victorian Health professionals, Police and Child Protection Practitioners,
- has a leadership role in establishing standards, protocols and guidelines in relation to forensic paediatric medicine in Victoria,
- serves as a central point for data collection and funding of fee-for-service consultations and
- is a leading Victorian centre for teaching and research in the medical aspects of child maltreatment.

**What we offer**:

- Salary Packaging - Increase your take home pay
- Employee Assistance Program
- Culture of continuous improvement

**Other requirements**:

- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
- Valid Working with Children Check
- Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

**Application process - for SMS only**

To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.

You must attach certified credentials and a completed “SMS Application for Appointment Form”

**Why work at the RCH?**

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption

**Are you ready to join our team?**

Applications close **25 June 2025**

Applications close Wednesday 25 June 2025 at 11.59PM

Posted 12 June 2025