Provisional Fellow

What you'll be doing

We host a busy HSCT and cellular therapy service, and perform MUD and haploidentical transplants for high grade haematological malignancy as well as primary immunodeficiency syndromes. We are the national referral centre for autoimmune autologous transplant (MS and scleroderma), and participate in autoimmune and solid organ malignancy CART cells trials.

The duties and responsibilities of the position will include:

• Provision of clinical services to BMT and cellular therapy patients and donors in the outpatients (and inpatient) setting.
• Conduct regular clinics for pre and post-translant and cellular therapy patients in the Kinghorn Cancer Centre
• Involvement in the clinical trials unit - recruit, consent and follow up patients in BMT and cellular therapy clinical trials
• Assist in maintenance of quality accreditation for JACIE-FACT, CIBMTR and EBMT through data capture, audits, and participation in regular BMT quality meetings
• Assume a leadership role, specifically in terms of leading and mentoring junior staff and advanced trainees, and participating in hospital-wide teaching and education
• Involvement in clinical/laboratory research projects for presentation at local or international meetings
• Assistance with ward or registrar cover during periods of leave
• Travel alongside a haematology consultant to attend a rural/regional clinic once every 2-3 months
• No regular afterhours/overtime haematology roster commitments (although opportunities available on request)

Where you'll be working 

St Vincent’s Health Network Sydney (SVHN) is located centrally in bustling Darlinghurst, part of St Vincent’s Health Australia. We are a clinical and education leader with a national and international reputation in medical research is co-located with the research institutes – the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research.  The Hospital is a teaching hospital of the UNSW and University of Notre Dame and has academic associations with the Australian Catholic University, Sydney University and the University of Technology, Sydney.

St. Vincent’s Hospital has a long-standing reputation for treating the highest acuity and complex patient loads, attracting referrals on a state-wide and national basis. We support to the Murrumbidgee Health district including remote specialist clinics at Wagga Wagga and Griffith Base hospitals. We specialise in heart/lung transplantation; bone marrow transplantation; cardiology; neurosurgery, cancer; clinical genomics, HIV medicine; palliative care, respiratory medicine; mental health; and drug and alcohol services, aged psychiatry, homeless health and prisoner health.