Staff Specialist - Rehabilitation Medicine Spinal Cord Injuries Service

Title: Staff Specialist(Rehabilitation Medicine Queensland Spinal Cord Injuries Service (QSCIS))

Location: Brisbane Australia

Job type: Onsite
Time Type: part Time

Job Description:

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Your new role:

As a staff specialist in the QSCIS, this role provides specialist Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) clinical care to patients across the continuum of care and assumes overall responsibility for patient care. This includes the provision of medical care to patients accessing the QSCIS inreach, inpatient, outpatient, transition and outreach services. Rotation between different components of QSCIS may be necessary to meet service needs.

About you:

The Queensland Spinal Cord Injuries Service (QSCIS) consists of the Quick Start inreach team, the Spinal Injuries Unit (SIU), the Transitional Rehabilitation Program (TRP) and the Spinal Outreach Team (SPOT) and is part of the Department of Allied Health and Rehabilitation located at the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH). The SIU provides acute management, primary rehabilitation and life-long outpatient services and re-admission services for complications of SCI. The TRP provides community based transitional rehabilitation programs for patients with acute SCI and allows earlier discharge from the SIU and the SPOT is a community-based outreach services that provides ongoing consultative, health and rehabilitation services to people with SCI. The Quick Start inreach team provides specialist advice and support to other clinical teams managing people with acute SCI and contributes to capacity and capability for inpatient SCI care either whilst waiting inpatient rehabilitation in the SIU or outside of QSCIS across hospitals in Queensland and northern NSW.

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

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