The Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology are looking for a Senior Staff Specialist or Staff Specialist. The role provide high quality clinical care to patients with disorders of the digestive tract and clinically manage, on a day-to-day basis, the associated multidisciplinary patient care team to ensure the provision of appropriate patient care. In addition, provide professional leadership within Gastroenterology in general in particular, and provide training, education and supervision to junior medical staff and other health care members and contribute to existing or develop own initiatives that aim to improve quality, efficiency or outcomes of services by appropriate quality improvement measures that include research.

Job details

Metro South Health is the major provider of public health services, and health education and research, in the Brisbane south side, Logan, Redlands and Scenic Rim regions. We serve an estimated population of 1 million people, 23 per cent of Queensland's population. Every day, around the clock, we're faced with challenges with the highest stakes; but we remain focussed on the needs of our patients practicing a person-centred approach to health care. From our reception staff to our doctors, administrators to housekeepers—we are committed to providing you and your family with quality health care.

About the Role
This role will be required to:

• Provide within a multi-professional team evidenced-based clinical care to inpatients and outpatients with the whole spectrum of digestive diseases; The position is predominantly based at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, but duties may include providing care at other Queensland Health facilities within the Health Services District.
• Provide diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic and other services to in- and outpatients
• Contribute to administrative responsibilities as required
• This position supervises registrars, junior house officers and interns.
• Provision of Gastroenterology services to inpatients in Princess Alexandra Hospital
• Provision of outpatient clinics in Gastroenterology
• For further information please refer to the role description below.

Benefits
We offer employees competitive remuneration and generous employer superannuation contribution, benefits and incentives, career development and opportunity with outstanding support for workplace training and education within our flexible, family friendly workplaces.

From the large, technologically advanced tertiary Princess Alexandra Hospital, to our mid-size facilities in thriving suburbs, to community health centres servicing regional communities, we offer exciting career pathways and employment opportunities for health professionals.

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: https://metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team.

Conditions of Employment
Some roles within Queensland Health are designated as ‘Vaccination Preventable Disease (VPD) risk roles'. A VPD risk role is a role in which the incumbent may be exposed to the risk of acquisition and/or transmission of a VPD. If you are applying for a role that has been designated as a VPD risk role you must be able to provide evidence that you either have been vaccinated against the VPD's listed in the role description; or you are not susceptible to the VPD's listed in the role description.

You will be asked by the recruiting manager to supply this evidence if you are the preferred candidate for the role. Any job offer would be subject to the supply of evidence related to VPD in addition to other required employment screening.

Further information

Applicants are encouraged to apply online; Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Information for Applicants (PDF, 263KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  PA02303109 RD (PDF, 437KB)
  Role Description