Cardiologist for Heart Failure Service - VIC St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne - Fitzroy Campus

• Assist the Head of Heart Failure Services
• Provide expert specialist care to inpatients and outpatients referred to the Heart Failure Service.
• Attend the weekly Heart Failure clinic
• Supervises and advises members of the Junior Medical Staff working in the Heart Failure Service.
• Support the Hospital’s Heart failure nurses.
• Ensure that timely, efficient and high-quality medical care is provided to patients including maintaining accurate patient records.
• Assume responsibility for clinical care of allocated patients and participate in setting the standards for high quality clinical practice within the Department.

Classifications for this position will range from HN16 - HN56 depending on years of experience.

Your Contribution

General

• Perform duties of the position to best of their ability and to a standard acceptable to SVHM
• Comply with all SVHM policies, procedures, by laws and directions
• Treat others with respect and always behave professionally and in accordance with the SVHM Code of Conduct
• Only access confidential information held by SVHM when this is necessary for business purposes, maintaining the confidentiality of that information once accessed
• Display adaptability and flexibility to meet the changing operational needs of the business
• Comply with applicable Enterprise Bargaining Agreement provisions
• Display a willingness to develop self and seek to improve performance

Clinical Quality and Safety

• Attend clinical orientation upon commencement
• Maintain clinical registration and any required indemnity cover
• Provide junior medical staff with appropriate supervision and training in order to ensure safe clinical care.
• Always work within approved scope of practice under supervision by more senior clinical staff as appropriate.
• Take personal responsibility for the quality and safety of work undertaken
• Take all necessary care and precautions when undertaking clinical procedures
• Maintain skills and knowledge necessary to safely and skillfully undertake clinical work
• Consult with peers and other experts and refer to other healthcare workers when appropriate and in a timely manner
• Collaborate and clearly communicate with patients/clients and the healthcare team
• Participate in clinical risk management and continuous quality improvement activities as part of day-to-day work

What we offer
• Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay!
• Employee Assistance Program
• Ability to join Fitness Passport - Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities
• Discounts and Promotions always available through our Foundation
• Career development & advancement encouraged
• Culture of continuous improvement
• Flexible working arrangements including

About the Cardiology Department
The Cardiology Department provides tertiary cardiac care to over 28,000 patients per annum. This includes 3500 patients per annum in its public outpatient clinics, 16,000 patients per annum attending the St Vincent’s Heart Centre for outpatient consultations, transthoracic echocardiograms, stress echoes, pacemaker testing and ambulatory blood pressure and ECG monitoring, 3000 inpatient admissions to its coronary care unit (CCU) and general cardiology beds, 2500 patients per annum undergoing procedures in its Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratories (2 Cath Labs) and over 3000 echocardiograms are performed for hospital inpatients.  The St Vincent’s Cardiology Unit provides high level, multidisciplinary, complex care to a wide variety of patients with special expertise in the management of patients with acute coronary syndromes, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, pulmonary hypertension, lipid disorders and sports cardiology

Working at St Vincent’s
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is a leading teaching, research and tertiary health service. SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services and is driven by values of Compassion, Justice, Integrity and Excellence.

Application
Please attach your resume and cover letter to your application.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.

Please visit our website, for further information regarding our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment at SVHM.

SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings. You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations / vaccinations (including flu vaccinations).

This position is subject to a Victorian government direction regarding vaccination against COVID-19. Successful applicants must meet these vaccination requirements. Please contact us if you would like to know more.