Senior / Staff Specialist in Cardiology
Full-Time and Part-Time PermanentMedical Staff in the Canberra Health Services enjoy excellent conditions, and our Enterprise Agreement is available at ENTERPRISE AGREEMENTS.
City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.Flexible working conditions.Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.Generous leave provisions, including up to 4 weeks training/education leave and up to 5 weeks annual leave per annum (Pro Rata Part Time).Medical Education expenses allowance reimbursement up to $21,037 (Pro Rata Part Time).About the Role: The Department of Cardiology is a well-established service with 14 consultant medical staff positions, four Accredited Cardiology Advanced Trainees, and two Unaccredited Cardiology Advanced Trainees, in addition to Basic Physician Trainees and other Junior Medical Officers.
They work as part of a large multidisciplinary team including specialist nursing staff, cardiac physiologists, cardiac sonographers, administrative staff and the cardiac rehabilitation team.
Patients accessing the services include adults of all ages, acuity, frailty and disability, who present for diagnosis and treatment of a range of acute and chronic cardiac conditions.
The coronary care unit is a 19-bed unit which has over 2000 admissions annually.
The cardiology outpatient service provides up to 4,500 episodes of care annually with increasing demand each year.
There is a close working relationship with our cardiothoracic surgical unit.
The Interventional Cardiology Service includes two dedicated cardiac catheter laboratories which undertake over 800 coronary interventional procedures and over 1,600 angiography procedures annually.
It provides a 24/7 service for primary PCI for acute ST elevation myocardial infarction for the region.
A structural heart disease program is being developed.
The service also provides simple and complex cardiac device implantation service and follow up.
Clinical cardiac electrophysiology services were commenced in April 2019 with complex ablation procedures.
The echocardiography service performs over 4,000 procedures per year.
Regular transoesophageal echocardiography service and stress echocardiography is provided, with additional emergency cover.
Cardiac CT program commenced in 2017 in collaboration with the Department of Radiology.
Cardiac MRI is part of the proposed development plan for the department.
There is a dedicated heart failure clinic coordinated by a Heart Function Advanced Practice Nurse.
These clinics provide ready access to phone advice, education on self-management, avoid recurrent presentations and to assist with reducing length of hospitalisation by early bridging to outpatient care or closer to home care program.
The Department also provides a nurse led cardiac rehabilitation service supported by cardiologists, with strong engagement from patients and their families.
Construction is underway for a state-of-the-art Heart Care Centre, incorporating Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery services in the Acute Cardiac Care Unit (ACCU) and Interventional Cardiology Laboratory (ICL) as part of the Canberra Hospital Expansion Project (scheduled for completion in 2024).
Strong research links are maintained with the ANU, University of Canberra and the Australian Catholic University.
All specialties are represented with the exception of organ transplantation.
The hospital has well developed post graduate teaching programs.
A fully equipped medical library is available on site with a large collection of hard copy and online journals and textbooks.
The preferred candidate may be considered for a conjoint position in ANU at an academic level commensurate with the candidate's qualifications and experience.
The academic position will be held for the duration of the Canberra Health Services employment and will be subject to regular performance reviews.
No remuneration is attached to the University position.
The employee will be responsible to the University on academic matters and to The Canberra Hospital and Health Services / Canberra Health Services for clinical/ research matters.
For more information in relation to conjoint positions with the ANU please contact Professor Paul Fitzgerald, Director, ANU School of Medicine and Psychology (02) 6125 2622 ******. For more information regarding the position duties, please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to: Hold Specialist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.Meet credentialing requirements and receive an Endorsed scope of clinical practice from the Medical Dental Appointments Advisory Committee (MDAAC).Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.For more information on this position and how to apply "click here". Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focused on the delivery of high quality, effective, person-centred care.
It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community-based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region.
More information can be found on the CHS website.
Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind.
CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace.
As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.
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