Medical Specialist - Gastroenterology - Medicine

Employment Type: Permanent Fractional

Hours: Variable / negotiated, for a total of 12 hours per fortnight.

Salary: As per award based on classification

Location: Werribee Mercy Hospital

Upload with Application: Resume, cover letter, and all relevant qualifications

Contact: Dr Catherine Croagh, [email protected] /0400979420

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As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you’ll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere.

At Mercy Health, it’s all about taking what we have and making it better.

To do that, we need you.

Join us as at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.

About the opportunity

We are seeking expressions of interest for gastroenterologists to join the gastroenterology unit at Werribee Mercy hospital providing inpatient, outpatient and endoscopy services including a Haematemesis and Melaena on call/recall service.

The opportunity will include sessions for ward service (ward rounds 3 x per week) to manage gastroenterology inpatients and provide consultation and support to other services within the hospital as well as endoscopy lists and some limited outpatient sessions.

You will be joining a team of 8 gastroenterologists who currently provide gastroenterology outpatient and endoscopy services. Werribee Mercy is part of the Mercy health network and is an expanding health service in the rapidly growing south west of Melbourne. It is affiliated with Notre Dame University.

What you’ll bring
 

You’re resilient, compassionate and have a whole lot of heart. Most importantly, you are committed to delivering exceptional patient-centred care.

To thrive in this role, you will have:

• Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• Current AHPRA registration with general and Specialist registration.
• Conjoint Committee Accreditation with GESA and participation in GESA Colonoscopy recertification program.
• Excellent clinical skills and practice of evidence based medicine and patient centred care.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work well in and contribute to a team fostering supportive, collaborative relationships.
• Able to enthusiastically commit to the new unit including with participation in unit clinical meetings, quality assurance activities, teaching and supervision of doctors in training and medical students, willingness to participate in clinical research and in the development and execution of innovative programs in delivery of care and clinical training.
• Post fellowship subspecialty qualifications and/or training eg in interventional endoscopy or IBD would be desirable.

You'll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere.

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

• A current Police Record Check and Working with Children Check.
• Proof of current influenza vaccination and other vaccination status consistent with public health orders.

Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?

Join us and make a meaningful difference in people’s lives - and your career.

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We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We’re proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.