Position Profile: This role leads the multidisciplinary team to provide specialist medical services to patients and promotes patient safety and quality of care. The successful applicant will provide leadership, orientation, training, supervision and education, where relevant, for doctors in training, Health Service Medical Practitioners and other health workers as well as promote, develop and participate in clinical research including clinical trials. In collaboration with the Head of Department and other Consultants you will work to achieve national, state and NMHS performance standards, targets and enhance the reputation of the department for clinical excellence at a state and national level. The successful applicant will work within the scope of clinical practice as defined and recommended by the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Medical Credentialing and Scope of Clinical Practice Committee.

Area Profile: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) is one of Australia's leading teaching tertiary hospitals. Located at the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre 4km from Perth city centre, SCGH provides a comprehensive range of clinical services including trauma, emergency and critical care, orthopaedics, general medicine, general surgery, and cardiac care. It is home to WA's only comprehensive cancer centre - the largest cancer treatment centre in the State - and is the State's principal hospital for neurosurgery and liver transplants.

Selection Criteria: Please see the attached Job Description Form (available online at www.jobs.health.wa.gov.au).  

For Further Job Related Information: We encourage you to contact Peter Lau on 08 6457 3333.

Applicants are requested to apply online www.jobs.health.wa.gov.au