Staff Specialist - Geriatric Medicine - St Vincent's Hospital

Position Title: Staff Specialist - Geriatric Medicine 
Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until 10 December 2025
Hours per week: 0.5 FTE (20 hours per week)
Position Grade: Staff Specialist
Salary: As per the award

Enterprise Agreement: The Named NSW (Non-Declared) Affiliated Health Organisations’ Staff Specialist Agreement 2021
Department Name: Geriatric Medicine

About us:
St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing health services to our community. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, integrity and justice, we promote a culture of diversity and inclusion and empower our people to learn, grow and innovate.

Benefits of working at St Vincent’s include:
• Generous salary packaging and Fitness Passport for eligible staff
• Opportunity to access a wide of range of clinical and non-clinical education programs
• Supported post graduate opportunities within applicable fields
• Career development opportunities across the St Vincent’s Health Australia Network
• Employee Assistance Program
• Work/Life balance

About the role:
We are seeking a qualified Geriatric Medicine Staff Specialist to join the St Vincent’s Hospital Geriatric Medicine Department. The successful candidate will be responsible for the provision of high-level Geriatric Medicine Services and management of complex medical disorders in a multidisciplinary team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide expert, high quality specialist services including assessment, treatment planning and oversight, follow-up, and ongoing evaluation including up to date documentation and transfer of care summaries.

• Provide leadership for clinical activities and initiate, encourage and participate in service improvement, evaluation and innovative treatment.

• Work within and respect organisational processes and clinical systems.

• Within the acute Geriatric Medicine environment follow the expectation of three patient rounds throughout each week, dividing work hours accordingly, and work with and supervise the junior medical team assigned to assist you in your patient management.

• Work as part of multi-disciplinary teams and other staff in a way that is responsive to and respectful of team members and/or the disciplines and services they represent.

• Maintain positive liaison with carers and community providers including general practitioners, NGOs and families in a way that enables them to be involved in patient care and recovery.

• Work with colleagues in a professional and support manner including attending Consultant and other meetings relevant to developing and maintaining a quality service.

• Foster the promotion of standards of excellence in the provision of clinical and public services.

• Implement and undertake major teaching and educational activities for clinical staff, especially Junior Medical Officers, specialty trainees and medical students.

• Promote College standards of practice.

• Ensure that College requirements for the experience and supervision of trainee specialists are met by providing clinical supervision to Registrars and that AT Supervision workshops are enrolled in and completed where possible.

• Participate in the consultant on-call day and after-hours roster.

• Participate in ongoing professional education and peer review.

• Attend to clinical consultations within a reasonable period of preferably within 24 hours of being made aware of the consultation.

• Participate in Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement processes including local audits of care process.

• Attend and participate in patient flow processes including case conferences, discharge huddles and Good to Go meetings to maximise discharge planning and efficient effective patient care.  Participation with the Geriatric Short Stay model of care including early review of patients in the Emergency Department as well as managing patients in the virtual or at home settings.

• Use resources in an appropriate way and be accountable for utilisation (including that of junior medical staff under your supervision). Judicious use of resources for effective investigation of patients for diagnosis and ongoing management.

• Recognition of the importance of sound role modelling and following the code of conduct and values of the organisation in day to day work practice.

Diversity and Inclusion at St Vincent's:
St Vincent's is committed to employing a workforce that reflects the community we care for. We strongly encourage applications from people that are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally diverse, sexuality or gender diverse and/or living with disability.

Employment with St Vincent's is subject to you having current immunity status that complies with the Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases - NSW Health Policy Directive (PD2023_022) or subsequent revisions in force. Appointment and ongoing employment will be subject to continued compliance with this policy directive.

Application Instructions:
To have your application considered you are required to upload a current CV/Resume as well as a separate cover letter/document addressing the ‘Selection Criteria’ as below. Internal applicants i.e. current employees of St Vincent’s Hospital or an entity of SVHA are required to apply via their Workday account.

Selection Criteria:

·         Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries and St Vincent’s Health Australia.

·         Possess, or be eligible to possess, specialist registration with the Medical Board of Australia (MBA).

·         Possess Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) or equivalent.

·         Demonstrated knowledge, skills and high standards of clinical practice in Geriatric Medicine with extensive understanding and experience in the management of complex medical disorders.

·         Demonstrated ability to provide high quality compassionate medical care as evidenced by recent practice experience in working congenially and collaboratively as both a leader and member of a multidisciplinary team, and as a provider of services that engender high levels of patient satisfaction and experience.

·         Demonstrated commitment to teaching at specialty registrar, junior medical officer and undergraduate levels.

·         Demonstrated management ability in clinical service planning and the provision of a patient-focused, comprehensive, high quality and cost-effective clinical service with knowledge and commitment to the implementation of best practice and clinical service innovation.

·         Demonstrated ongoing contribution to the development, dissemination, and translation of new knowledge and practices commensurate with work in an academic teaching hospital environment.

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Applications close on 17/03/25