Medical Epidemiologist 2017

Melbourne Health is Victoria’s second largest public health service. We provide comprehensive acute, sub-acute, general, specialist medical and mental health services through both inpatient and community based facilities through the following services: The Royal Melbourne Hospital – City Campus, The Royal Melbourne Hospital – Royal Park Campus, North Western Mental Health, North West Dialysis Service and Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory.

Melbourne Health provides services to the culturally and linguistically diverse communities of northern and western metropolitan Melbourne, as well as providing general and specialist services to regional and rural Victorians as a tertiary referral service.

Employing over 8,900 staff across our services, Melbourne Health manages over 1,400 beds.  We provide one of the two adult major trauma services to the state of Victoria.

In 2014/15, The Royal Melbourne Hospital provided over 85,000 episodes of care to patients. There were 66,155 emergency presentations, 13,663 elective patients admitted and 173,516 outpatient appointments made.

Our Strategic Directions 2010 – 2015 is underpinned by our organisational values and behaviours ‘passion for caring – Achieving the Extraordinary’ and incorporates five key goals: Develop our Workforce, Improve the Quality & Safety of Services, Develop and encourage Strategic Relationships, Foster a Culture of Research and Innovation; and Build a Sustainable Organisation.

Key accountabilities:

To work with and support team members in the Epidemiology Unit and other stakeholders both within and external to the Doherty Institute to

-       Provide expert opinion and otherwise engage with a newly funded Hepatitis B Indicators Surveillance Project

-       Conduct epidemiological analysis and undertake public health research

-       Develop key clinical and public health guidelines and develop policy relating to viral hepatitis, and serve on committees/working groups relating to viral hepatitis

-       Provide clinical epidemiological support to other members of the viral hepatitis program within the epidemiology unit in VIDRL

This role is available as one session (3.5 hours) per week for a period of 12 months. Further extensions are possible, dependent on ongoing funding.

Melbourne Health’s Vision

First in Care, Research and Learning

Our Goals

Supporting us to achieve, guiding our direction.

• Develop our workforce
• Improve quality and safety of our services
• Develop and encourage strategic relationships
• Foster a culture of research and innovation
• Build a sustainable organisation

Securing the health of our communities through research and innovation, to deliver effective services and educate future generations.

Melbourne Health’s Values

¡  Caring – we treat everyone with kindness and compassion.

¡  Excellence – we are committed to learning and innovation.

¡  Integrity – we are open, honest and fair.

¡  Respect – we treat everyone with respect and dignity at all times.

¡  Unity – we work together for the benefit of all.

At Melbourne Health our employees provide person-centred care which ensures:

¡  Patients and family/carers are treated with respect

¡  Effective communication occurs with patients and family/carers about all aspects of their care

¡  Patients receive timely care

Occupational Health & Wellbeing

Melbourne Health endeavours to provide a working environment for its employees that is safe and without risk to health.  Employees are required to:

¡  Take reasonable care for their own safety and that of anyone else who could be affected by their actions;

¡  Responsible for ensuring the implementation of health and safety policies and procedures; and

¡  Fully co-operate with MH in any action it considers necessary to maintain a working environment which is safe and without risk to health.

Melbourne Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing for its employees a work environment which is free of harassment or discrimination.

MH promotes cultural diversity and awareness in the workplace.

Melbourne Health reserves the right to modify position descriptions as required. Staff will be consulted when this occurs.