• Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, Flinders Medical Centre
• Indicative Total Remuneration: $94,749 - $154,146 (pro rata) - Temp P/T (22.8 hrs p/wk, up to 31/1/2021) - MDP2

The Heart Failure/Echocardiography Fellowship is a research, teaching and clinical training position within the Cardiology Department at Flinders Medical Centre. The objective of this position is to provide academic and clinical training in the field of echocardiography and advanced heart failure specifically, to provide experience in coronary and structural heart disease management, and experience in clinical trial research in heart failure. The Heart Failure Fellowship, from a clinical point of view, will involve high-end advanced heart failure work, spanning from ward heart failure inpatients, heart failure consultations from other hospital units (including ICU and liver transplant service), outpatient clinic care of heart failure, cardiac transplant, left ventricular assist device (LVAD) and pulmonary arterial hypertension patients. The Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) is the southern area's largest hospital providing medical services for the southern population of Adelaide and major regional rural centres. FMC has earned an international reputation as one of Australia’s finest public teaching hospitals and as a centre for research excellence. The hospital is co-located with the Flinders University School of Medicine and the Flinders Private Hospital.

Holding a Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or an equivalent qualification, you will be registrable with the Medical Board of Australia as a Medical Practitioner with General Registration. You will have documented experience in providing echocardiographic services including transthoracic echo, consistent with CSANZ criteria for Advanced Trainees. Along with clinical and basic research experience, you will have proven clinical skills to enable work in General Cardiology and Coronary Care.

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

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job Ref: 693774

 693774 - Heart Failure Research Fellow - Job Pack.pdf