Staff Specialist - Brisbane, Australia - Queensland Health

Queensland Health

Verified Company

Brisbane, Australia

1 week ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals 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
This role reports to the Director of MAPU.
This position fulfils accountabilities and responsibilities in accordance with Metro South's purpose and objectives.

Provides in accordance with the philosophy of PAH MAPU and HITH services, a high quality, effective and efficient clinical care to the acutely unwell members of the community presenting to the MAPU, HITH and RAS, both via ED and also directly from General Practitioners.
Provides professional leadership within MAPU (& HITH) and provide training, education and supervision to registrars, junior medical staff and other healthcare members of the MAPU and HITH team.
Participates in afterhours and oncall staff specialist roster in Acute General Medicine.
Specific duties may involve ward rounds, outpatient services (including Telehealth and outreach services, if appropriate), procedural work, multidisciplinary team meetings and collaboration with other medical teams or other professional streams.
Enable clinical pathways and early discharge procedures, including CLD (Criteria Led Discharge).
Ensure appropriate handover of patients, as needed.

The Princess Alexandra Department of MAPU is focussed upon meeting the needs of our patients populations using contemporary and evidence based models of care.

Our aim is to deliver highly effective and efficient acute medical care to mee the varied needs of our patients.

MAPU has 32 Acute Care beds with telemetry facilities for 20 beds.

MAPU is accredited with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians as a high acuity unit for Advanced Trainees in General and Acute Care Medicine (Core Acute rotation).

Our ICARE2 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 packag ing, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 Health Employment Directive No.

12/21 and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70.