The Metro South Palliative Care Service is looking for a Staff Specialist to join its team.  High-quality clinical care for palliative patients and their families within the catchment area of the Metro South Health (MSH.  Clinical leadership for the interdisciplinary team serving palliative care patients within the MSH catchment area.  Input into the planning and delivery of all aspects of medical palliative care service provision across MSPCS, including clinical, educational, research, practice improvement and administrative processes.

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We are Metro South Health

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands and the Scenic Rim. We operate five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty and state-wide healthcare services. We are renowned for teaching and research excellence.

We are truly dedicated people who care about our community. We come to work to make a difference. We save lives, changes lives and make the world a better place. We overcome the many challenges that come our way by going above and beyond and achieve the best possible outcomes by working together. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation and family responsibilities to apply.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community.

We are part of and proud of the community we serve. We are better together.

Join us at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

The Staff Specialist Palliative Care will be required to develop and implement educational programs in palliative care at both graduate and undergraduate level, contribute to Hospital Grand Rounds and other education sessions, provide support and supervision of junior medical staff, including palliative care trainee registrars, and to be involved in palliative care research projects.

This role provides specialist palliative clinical care to patients and assumes overall responsibility for patient care at Metro South Hospital and Health Service.  The role will participate in the provision of clinical care to patients of the hospital and health service including:

• Participate in patient history taking and diagnosis, including ordering relevant tests.
• Advocate for the patients which includes protecting the patient, being the patient's voice, provision of quality care and interpersonal relationship as well as educating the patient.
• Participate in the development of patients' treatment and development plans.
• Participate in the provision of emergency treatment to patients.
• Ensure treatment orders are appropriately documented (including medications and general management plans).

 Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

Our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

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

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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 Guide for Applicants 2024 (PDF, 647KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 415KB)
  Application Kit
  
  Staff Specialist (Palliative Care) RD 2025 (PDF, 341KB)
  Role Description