Employment Type: Permanent Part Time 16 hours per week 
Position Classification: Genetics Counsellor Level 1-2
Remuneration: $34.01 – $49.28 per hour plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: 16
Requisition ID: REQ350808

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The Royal Hospital for Women is a multi-faceted tertiary referral and teaching hospital offering women a wide range of comprehensive women’s health services. It is one of the world’s leading hospitals for mothers and babies and for women with benign gynaecological and gynae-oncology conditions. The hospital is committed to the provision of excellence in health care for women as well as continued research into how to best provide that care.

The Royal Hospital for Women is the only stand-alone Women’s Hospital in New South Wales providing unique opportunities for innovative clinical practice initiatives. It is part of South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) and is co-located with other hospitals on the Randwick Hospitals Campus. The Campus offers one of the State’s most comprehensive ranges of facilities and expertise in health care.

The Royal Hospital for Women is close to some of Sydney’s best beaches, restaurants and sporting facilities and only fifteen (15) minutes from the Sydney Central Business District and harbour, adding a quality lifestyle to the satisfaction that comes from working within a committed and decided team. The Royal

What you’ll be doing

The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional people, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it. 
The Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) provides tertiary referral services in obstetric and high-risk pregnancy management, genetic counselling and prenatal diagnosis. There are two permanent part-time genetic counsellors, one senior and one junior. The junior Genetic Counsellor (GC) will work with the current senior Genetic Counsellor and will assist with the co-ordination and provision of prenatal and genetic counselling services at the Royal Hospital for Women (RHW) for hospital and privately referred patients. This includes aneuploidy screening and prenatal chromosomal testing, prenatal diagnosis, preconception/carrier screening and perinatal loss. The Genetic Counsellor acts as a resource and provides education on current and new developments and technologies in prenatal diagnosis and genetics to midwives, General practitioners (GPs), doctors and other health professionals both at RHW and regionally.

The Genetic Counsellor works as part of the multidisciplinary team and functions within the policies and procedures of the Maternal Fetal Medicine, Royal Hospital for Women and Ministry of Health. The Prenatal Genetics Service works closely with and is supervised by clinical geneticists from both the Centre of Clinical Genetics Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick and RHW.

SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.

Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.

All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). Additionally, Category A workers are required to receive a booster dose three months after completing the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations. New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (IM011 immunisation medical exemption form) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.​

Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations.

Selection Criteria

1. Qualifications in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Service Health Professionals (State) Award and current HGSA membership and at least Part 1 in Genetic Counselling.
2. Demonstrated high level written and verbal communication, and interpersonal skills, and the ability to proactively engage with patients/clients to enhance service delivery.
3.  Demonstrated core competency skills and previous relevant work experience in genetic counselling.
4. Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and to exercise independent professional judgement on routine matters, commensurate with years of experience.
5.  Computer skills and the capacity to use health information systems including experience with database management.
6.  Demonstrated ability to prioritise a high volume workload while at the same time achieving positive outcomes.
7.  Demonstrated commitment to quality improvement and evidence based practice and a commitment to ongoing clinical and professional learning.
8.  Knowledge of Infection Control and Work Health & Safety principles.

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For role related queries or questions contact Antonia Shand  on [email protected]
 

Applications Close:16 Nov 2022