Specialist/ Senior Specialist / Visiting Medical Officer - Clinical Director / Designated Radiologist Part-time Temporary Closes: 26 June 2024 Classification: Specialist Band 1-5/Senior Specialist Salary: $188,151 - $254,198 plus superannuation Position No: 00000 - 02HWR Directorate: Canberra Health Services Advertised (Gazettal date): 14 June 2024 Contact Officer: Julianne Siggins on julianne.sigginsact.gov.au or 0422390606 What can we offer you: 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. Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions. Flexible working conditions. 11.5% Superannuation. VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates. Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval). To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services (act.gov.au) About the Role: Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed 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: CHS website Medical Staff in the Canberra Health Services enjoy excellent conditions, and our Enterprise Agreement is available at ENTERPRISE AGREEMENTS BreastScreen ACT (BSACT) is part of the BreastScreen Australia (BSA) screening program. The service offers free breast screening to all women over 40 years in the ACT. The program has a target age group of women between 50 and 74 years. BreastScreen ACT provides screening at three sites located in the Canberra city, Phillip and Belconnen Health Centres. All assessments are carried out at the Canberra city clinic. The BreastScreen ACT Clinical Director / Designated Radiologist is responsible for the provision of professional and strategic clinical leadership to BreastScreen ACT and to oversee the provision of high-quality breast cancer screen screening and assessment services relating to radiology in accordance with the BreastScreen Australia National Accreditation Standards (NAS). This role will drive evidence based innovative clinical practice and service development as well as implementing quality improvement strategies and monitoring processes. The role will develop territory wide policies and procedures to ensure consistency of practice and standardisation of service delivery and resolution of any clinical issues. This requires the Clinical Director / Designated Radiologist to work closely with the Designated Radiographer and Program Director. Close liaison with the Designated Pathologist, Designated Surgeon and Medical Physicist is also required. Please note, this is a temporary position available as fixed term or Visiting Medical Officer. Duties: Under limited direction of the Director, BreastScreen ACT you will perform the Clinical Director / Designated Radiologist role. You will: Provide professional clinical leadership to radiologists, readers and the multidisciplinary clinical workforce to ensure the provision of safe, contemporary practice which is cost effective for the service and its users. Provide expert clinical advice on breast imaging and intervention, population based screening and other service-related topics whilst being the spokesperson for BSACT. Contribute to BreastScreen ACT strategic and operational planning, developing KPIs for measuring performance and Program integration to achieve identified targets and standards from participation to diagnosis of breast cancer. Collaborate on BSA national program initiatives, advising on BSACT position. While providing clinical expertise on emerging technologies in BreastScreen including education, implementation guidance and support to the clinical workforce within BSACT. Undertake quarterly assessment of radiologists' performance in screening and assessment and provide feedback of this assessment to individual radiologists: Analysis of the Service and the individual Radiologist's recall rates, cancer detection rates, missed cancer detection rates and interval cancers. Assessment performance, such as pre-operative diagnosis of breast cancers and adequacy of percutaneous biopsies, will also be included. The individualised identification information is confidential. Ensuring regular radiology / pathology / surgery review of biopsies is undertaken through Clinical Correlation meetings. Provide direct supervision and encourage of radiologists to participate in continuing education and training programs including Orientating. Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation. For more information about this position and how to apply, please click here to see the Position Description. Note: This is a temporary position available as fixed term or Visiting Medical Officer. This part-time temporary position is available for up to 11 months with the possibility of extension and/or permanency at up to six hours per week. The full-time salary noted above will be paid pro-rata. For more information on this position and how to apply "click here" Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed 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. Canberra Hospital Expansion Project - CHS is constructing a new critical services building called 'Building 5' which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory's history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution. North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities. 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