• Department for Health and Wellbeing – Public Health – Communicable Disease Control Branch, Specialist Services
• Salary: $227,591 to $299,884 (Pro-Rata) – MD2 – Part Time 0.5FTE / Term Contract up to 30 June 2027

Overview:

• To provide specialist medical and strategic advice on infectious disease prevention, surveillance, and control, and outbreak management, to contribute effectively to teaching/training, research and epidemiology and evaluation; and to advise departmental Executive, Health Chief Executives Council (HCEC), the Minister and government, with a focus on tuberculosis. To represent CDCB and PHD on DHW and State committees and South Australia at national meetings on infectious diseases prevention, surveillance, and control, and outbreak management.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.  Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and appropriate immunisation requirements.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 889560

Criminal History Screening Requirement

• A National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving ‘Unsupervised Contact with Vulnerable Groups’ is required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
• A DHS ‘Working With Children Check’ (WWCC) is required for this position

Immunisation Risk for this position is Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances) 

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Special Conditions

• Registered with the Medical Board of Australia as a Medical Practitioner with Specialist registration in public health medicine.
• Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine.
• Some out of hours work will be required; the incumbent needs to be prepared to work out of hours and extra hours to assist filling a 24/7 roster and to support the management of notifiable diseases.
• Some intra and interstate travel may be required.

Enquiries

Business Support Officer

Phone:  7425 5890

E-mail:  Health.PHCDCBusinessSupport@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date

Sunday, 12 January 2025 - 11.55PM

Attachments

• 889560 - Medical Consultant Tuberculosis – Public Health – Role Description.pdf
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines