The Unaccredited Cardiology Registrar will contribute to inpatient care and diagnostic cardiology services under the care and direction of the attending Cardiologists to ensure a high quality service. They will take a multidisciplinary, collaborative team approach to optimise support to patients and colleagues, and will undertake administrative and research duties where appropriate.

Responsibilities 

• Ability to work well in a team environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively with nursing staff, senior medical staff and other relevant staff on ward or in clinics.
• Daily review of inpatients admitted under the cardiology team.
• Communicate with and liaising between Senior and Junior medical staff and other members of the team involved in patient care.
• Plan and organise the structured discharge of each patient and ensuring appropriate communication with other treating doctors.
• Ability to appropriately order and interpret radiology/pathology/diagnostic cardiology results.
• Assessment of acute inpatient cardiology referrals and discussion with the attending Cardiologist.
• Attend one cardiology outpatient clinic per week.
• Supervision and reporting of cardiology investigations in the Clinical Diagnostic Unit:
  • 12-lead ECGs
  • Ambulatory blood pressure monitors
  • Holter monitors
  • Exercise stress ECG testing
• Assist with transthoracic echocardiography, exercise stress echocardiography, agitated saline contrast studies, transoesophageal echocardiography, direct current cardioversion, pacing clinics.
• Participate in Quality Assurance and Research projects.
• Supervise and teach Hospital Medical Officers and Medical Students.
• Active involvement in Cardiology education.
• Contribute to Cardiology presentations at Grand Rounds and other hospital meetings as required.
• Provide input to Policies, Procedures, Guidelines and other administrative processes.
• Understand and fulfill the documentation requirements of GV Health documentation policy and procedure.

Essential qualifications

• Commitment to the GV Health Values of Compassion, Respect, Excellence, Accountability, Teamwork, and Ethical Behaviour.
• Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency as a Medical Practitioner
• Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to relate positively with and appropriately with patients and others
• High level of motivation
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Professional collegiality towards peers and the wider health care team
• Satisfactory National History Criminal Check prior to commencement of employment
• Satisfactory Victorian ‘Employee’ Working with Children Check prior to commencement of employment
• Completion of a Commonwealth

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