Overview
Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care to south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations, via telehealth, within local communities and in people’s homes. We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values. About Monash Doctors
To help grow your career, there are more than 1,900 Junior and 1,700 Senior Doctors at Monash Health in over 200 medical specialties. We offer unparallel opportunities in Victoria's largest & most clinically diverse teaching health service. About Addiction Medicine Unit
The Monash Health Drug and Alcohol provides an extensive range of service to people within a broad catchment across the South-East metropolitan area into Gippsland with an expert team of Addiction Medicine Specialists and Addiction Psychiatrists, Nurse Practitioners, Registrars, Drug and Alcohol Nurses, Peer Workers and Specialty Training Registrars. It provides and comprehensive suite of services including: Community Residential Withdrawal Primary Health Clinic and Specialist Pharmacotherapy Service Needle Syringe Program – fixed site, outreach and syringe dispensing machines Mobile Overdose Response & Drug Safety outreach Aboriginal Metropolitan ‘Ice’ Partnership Youth Supported Accommodation and Youth Outreach Southern Dual Diagnosis Service capacity building Assessment, Counselling and Non-residential withdrawal (SECADA) About the Role
This is a 0.3 EFT ongoing position flexibly operating at the Monash Medical Centre, Dandenong and Casey Hospitals as well as a number of community clinics. The applicant must have strong clinical skills in the care of inpatients and outpatients with acute and chronic substance use disorders, including alcohol, cannabis, and methamphetamine use disorders, illicit and prescribed opioid dependence and the management of iatrogenic opioid, benzodiazepine and other psychoactive medication misuse. About You
What you need: Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) Appropriate health professional postgraduate qualifications (FRANZCP or equivalent) Experience in Hospital Consultation Liaison and chronic pain management an advantage. What we offer
Salary packaging Onsite discounted staff parking Discounted banking (BankVic) Onsite Gym Access to professional development courses and seminars
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