Pain Medicine Specialist - Heidelberg, Australia - Austin Health

Austin Health

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Heidelberg, Australia

3 weeks ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Austin Health is one of Victoria's largest health care providers. Our 11,000 employees and volunteers provide safe, high quality, person-centred care at Austin Hospital, Olivia Newton-John Centre, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital and Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre, as well as in the community through Hospital-in-the-Home and partner health services. We are an internationally recognised leader in clinical teaching, training and research and have affiliations with many leading universities and research institutes. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our purpose, which is to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About the department:

Austin Health has three campuses, the Austin Campus, the Repatriation Campus, and the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre. Anaesthesia services are provided by the Department of Anaesthesia for both the Austin and Repat sites.

The Department of Anaesthesia is located on Level 2 of the Austin Tower. The Department comprises 35 fulltime Staff Anaesthetists, 75 Visiting Anaesthetists, 22 Anaesthesia Registrars/Fellows, 6 Critical Care HMOs, 4 Research Nurses, 7 Pain Nurses, 4 Anaesthesia Liaison Nurses, and 5 Administrative Staff

The Austin operating theatre complex is situated on Level 2 of the Harold Stokes building and consists of 12 theatres, 2 endoscopy suites and 2 procedure rooms.

Anaesthesia is also undertaken in Radiology and in the Cardiology Cath Lab.

The Surgery Centre opened in 2008 on the Repatriation Campus. It is an autonomous elective surgery centre but is incorporated into Austin Health. It consists of 8 theatres, an endoscopy room, and a procedure room, and has a separate Head of Anaesthesia. Administrative services are provided by the Department of Anaesthesia at the Austin Campus.

Most surgical specialties, apart from Cardiac Transplantation, Obstetrics and Complex Paediatric Surgery, are undertaken at the Austin and are covered by the Department.

Surgical specialties at the Austin include Thoracic, Cardiac, Neurosurgery, Hepatobiliary, Orthopaedic, ENT, Ophthalmology and Vascular. The Austin is a statewide referral centre for liver transplantation and spinal injuries.

The Austin also has a Pain Service encompassing acute and chronic pain.

There is a strong research structure in the Department with a Head of Research supported by 4 research nurses.

The Austin is co-located with the Mercy Hospital for Women and whilst the Anaesthesia Departments at both hospitals are separate, they have close ties.

The Austin Pain Service encompasses acute and chronic pain.

The Pain Service is involved in the assessment and treatment of acute pain, chronic pain, and cancer pain. The service also has particular expertise in the management of complex regional pain syndrome.

The service operates across all campuses of Austin Health, accepting referrals from within Austin Health and externally from the community.

The Pain Service aims to provide pain relief (where possible) with a strong focus on engaging the patient to improve function within a multidisciplinary setting via a pain self-management approach.

The multidisciplinary team is comprised of medical, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and psychology clinicians. Interventional procedural pain management techniques are available via both the Pain Service and Radiology department.

The Pain Service is a clinical unit providing inpatient and outpatient consultation via a daily inpatient pain round (focusing mainly on post-surgical pain), in addition to outpatient-based services based at both the Austin and Repatriation campuses.

As such, the appointee may be required to travel between sites in the execution of clinical duties.

The Pain Service also aims to improve knowledge and competence in the management of pain by health professionals outside the Pain Service through teaching and training.

The Pain Service has an expanding role in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching affiliated with The University of Melbourne.

About the role:

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Hours per week: 10

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Employment status:Fixed-term Fractional

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Appointment period:6 months (Aug2023-Feb2024)**
To be successful for this role you must:

Must be a registered Medical Practitioner in Australia with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
Current Fellowship of the Faculty of Pain Medicine (FFPMANZCA) or equivalent.
A qualification as either a specialist in Anaesthesia, Addiction Medicine, General Medicine, General Practice, Geriatric Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Palliative Care Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine, or Rheumatology (holding FANZCA, FAChAM, FRACP, FRACS, FAChPM, FAFRM or equivalent)
Have appropriate training and experience applicable to the field of Pain Medicine
Demonstrated commitment to high quality patient care.
Demonstrated commitment and ongoing activity in research and/or clinical audit activities.
Involvement in teaching and t