Consultant Interventional Endoscopy Fellow

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 57153

Monash Health is seeking an interventional endoscopy fellow to join a thriving academic gastroenterology service in Melbourne’s South-East.

**About Monash Health**

**About Monash Haematology**

Monash Gastroenterology is Victoria’s largest gastroenterology unit. We care for 3000 GI inpatients/year, provide 10,000 endoscopic procedures including over 500 EUS and 600 ERCPs, and see 18,000 outpatients per annum across a range of speciality clinics including IBD, general gastroenterology, hepatobiliary, endoscopy, liver, decompensated liver, NASH, and liver cancer.

We provide services at Clayton, Dandenong and Casey, with two ward teams (Clayton and Dandenong), three endoscopy units (Clayton, Dandenong and Casey), five outpatient sites, and a 24 hour registrar led but consultant driven GI bleeding roster for Clayton and Dandenong.

In addition we offer intestinal ultrasound, fibroscan, and infusion services. The team currently comprises thirty six gastroenterologists, 6 accredited and 1 non-accredited registrars, and 6 JMS, and a large clinical trials unit providing ethics, GCP, and research nurse support, for commercial drug trials and both clinical and laboratory investigator initiated research.

We are a tertiary centre for patients with hepatobiliary disease and pancreatic malignancy and offer the full range of endoscopic, surgical, loco-regional and oncological treatments for these patients.

We have Victoria’s largest experience with medical and surgical management of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. The endoscopic strengths of the unit include diagnostic and therapeutic EUS, ERCP, upper GI stenting and the management of colonic mucosal resection

**About the Role**

The unit has a strong interest in research with 7 interventional endoscopists (including 2 with higher degrees), an endoscopy PhD fellow (pancreas/EUS) and a clinical trial group providing ethics, GCP, and research coordination support. Endoscopic research interest areas include diagnosis and management of pancreatic cancer and pancreatitis, and use of novel endoscopic interventions.

The position will allow an opportunity to undertake extensive experience in ERCP, EUS, EMR, ESD, POEM, luminal stenting and enteral nutritional access. Research trial involvement is expected along with ongoing quality assurance activities and involvement in unit educational activities.

This 18month position will involve:

- Consult services to inpatients requiring interventional endoscopy
- Attendance at 1 outpatient clinics/week
- 2 gastroscopy/colonoscopy lists
- Attendance at unit radiology/pathology meeting weekly
- Coordination of the ERCP and EUS audit
- Endoscopy teaching sessions for registrars and nursing staff
- A minimum of one clinical research project

Required qualifications include:

- CCCTRGE accreditation
- good communication skills
- ability to work in multidisciplinary teams. Prior research experience helpful.

**How to Apply**

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children's Check (or proof of payment for same)
- proof of immunisation

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses.