Staff Specialist or Senior Staff Specialist - Infectious Diseases

About the role

This role offers the opportunity to provide expert clinical care across a broad spectrum of infectious diseases, including the management of complex inpatient and outpatient cases, healthcare-associated infections, HIV, viral hepatitis, antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention, and Hospital in the Home services. You will contribute to the care of highly specialised patient cohorts, including transplant recipients, immunocompromised patients, intensive care, burns and trauma patients, and those requiring multidisciplinary specialist input.

About you

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can carry out the following key accountabilities in accordance with the Metro North Health's values:

• Establish work priorities in clinical medicine, medical education and research with minimum direct supervision
• Provide clinical care to the unit's own inpatients and consults by participating in the infectious diseases consultant roster, including after hours and on-call work. This will include services not located on the RBWH Herston campus elsewhere in Metro-North Hospital and Health Service and telephone services to other HHSs as required
• Infectious Diseases Outpatient Clinic including general infectious diseases, management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), viral hepatitis, hospital-in-the-home/outpatient antibiotic therapy and a variety of other infections at RBWH, North Lakes Health Precinct and by Telehealth
• Inpatient care for infectious diseases patients focussed primarily on healthcare associated infection with extensive subspecialty involvement including allogeneic stem cell transplantation and other profoundly immunocompromised individuals, complex subspecialty surgical, burns, trauma and intensive care unit patients and a broad range of other medical and surgical specialties

Benefits when working for us

• Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
• Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance
• Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
• Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75% and access to salary packaging

Metro North Health offers a dynamic and progressive environment at the forefront of healthcare, research, and education. With a strong commitment to inclusion, flexibility, and professional development, we provide meaningful opportunities in a workplace that puts people first. You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro North here: https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/careers

Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged and welcomed.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED VIA THIRD PARTIES (RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ETC.) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED