Consultant Paediatric Haematologist Ongoing

Location: Melbourne | Parkville

Job type: Full time

Organisation: The Royal Children's Hospital

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

Occupation: Medical and Nursing

Reference: 10023

Consultant Clinical Haematologist
- Consultant Paediatric Haematologist
- Full time - ongoing
- The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Salary Packaging Options

**The Hospital**:
The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) vision is _A world where all kids thrive_.

RCH is located within the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct, with more than 45 world-class biomedical organisations and more than 50,000 of the brightest minds working together to make the Precinct number one in the Asia Pacific region for health, education, research, and training. Within this, RCH is also a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation. Each organisation contributes to a paediatric academic health centre which is greater than the sum of its parts.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatric and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria. Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The RCH is the only provider of heart transplant services and CAR T-cell therapy for paediatrics in Australia. RCH is an effective advocate for patients and their families with a particular focus on vulnerable children and increasingly, mental health in young people. The hospital also supports many health promotion and prevention programs. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

**The Role**:
**An exciting opportunity exists for a dynamic and committed Paediatric Haematologist to join the Haematology team at RCH.**

The purpose of this role is to provide high quality, evidence-based clinical and laboratory haematology services for patients of the Royal Children’s Hospital and Royal Women’s Hospital, and to promote and develop the research and education programs of the department on campus, nationally and internationally.

**To be successful in this role you will have**:

- _Specialist registration (or are eligible for) in Australia _
- _Extensive experience in the specialty of paediatric haematology_
- _Advanced interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) to gain cooperation and influence others in achieving scientific goals and building collaboration._
- _A track record of strong collaborations, support and mentoring of staff and ability to construct a clear vision and strategy with implementation through established change procedures. _
- _Availability to meet clinical rostering requirements including participation in the on-call roster_
- _Professional demeanour and strong approach to teamwork_

**You will be responsible for**:

- _Deliver high quality clinical care for children and adolescent, and their families using the services at the Royal Children’s Hospital and patients at the Royal Women’s Hospital_
- Work in partnership with other medical, nursing and allied health professional staff to provide excellent clinical services for inpatients and outpatients within the employee’s scope of practice.
- Liaise with parents/carers and external healthcare providers in relation to treatment plans and procedures
- Manage in-patients admitted under clinical haematology while on ward service and on-call
- Contribute to the management of patients referred to Clinical Haematology for consultative advice.
- Competently perform haematology procedures including bone marrow biopsy, lumbar puncture and administration of intrathecal chemotherapy in accordance with hospital guidelines (according to scope of practice)
- Participate in providing high quality services at the Royal Children’s and Royal Women’s Hospital including routine and specialised haematology test reporting, communication and interpretation of results for clinicians, all pathology laboratory quality activities and transfusion medicine services.
- Assist in the training, supervision and development of junior medical staff
- _Providing strong leadership which supports the ongoing development of the department, (building on the current strengths of the team), including promotion of collaboration with peers and colleagues both local and international in areas of growth and development in the field_

**You will have**:

- Eligible for full registration as a Specialist Medical Practit