Employment Type: Various
Position Classification: Staff Specialist
Hours Per Week: Part time - up to 16hrs per week (0.4FTE)
Requisition ID: REQ654704
SESLHD’s Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Service (SHBBV) delivers high‑quality clinical services for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and blood borne viruses (BBVs). The service also provides leadership, research, and innovation across the sector, supporting both local SESLHD programs and four statewide services.
SHBBV cares for approximately 28,000 patients through clinic-based and outreach models. Its highly-skilled, diverse workforce spans nursing, medical, allied health, health promotion, and administrative roles. SHBBV is Australia’s largest sexual health and blood borne virus service.
The Kirketon Road Centre (KRC) is a specialised service within SHBBV. Operating across four locations, KRC provides targeted health services for people who inject drugs, people engaged in sex work, ‘at risk’ young people, First Nations people, LGBTQI+ communities, and people experiencing homelessness. KRC delivers tailored primary and urgent care for these priority populations, complementing and extending the broader services provided across SHBBV. KRC also delivers nurse ‑ led outreach, in partnership with community organisations, to improve access for people who may not engage with traditional healthcare settings.
This position provides expert medical assessment and management of patients within a multidisciplinary team consisting of doctors, nurses, counsellors, and health education officers to address patients’ often complex medical and psychosocial needs. In addition, the position provides clinical oversight and facilitation of training needs to advanced trainees, registrars, residents, and nurses, and to initiate and participate in research, auditing, and quality improvement activities.
In this role, you will provide expert medical assessment and management across primary health care, sexual health, HIV, viral hepatitis and addiction medicine within a multidisciplinary team caring for patients with often complex medical and psychosocial needs. You will also contribute to clinical leadership, supervision and teaching of trainees and junior staff, and participate in research, audit and quality improvement activities that strengthen care across KRC and the broader SHBBV service.
This position is suitable for a medical doctor with: a fellowship in sexual health medicine, with experience in primary health care; a fellowship in addiction medicine, with experience in primary health care; or a fellowship in general practice.
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 specialist will provide expert medical assessment and management of patients within the department/service.
The position will primarily be based at the Kings Cross KRC location but may be varied as agreed with the Director and approved by MDAAC to other SHBBV services in SESLHD.
Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment and have been created by employees for employees and help define how we work and to inspire positive interactions in the workplace.
Learn more about us here: South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Information for applicants:
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.
This is a Category A position. All Category A applicants must read and understand NSW Health Policy PD2026_004. Successful applicants to the role must provide vaccination history and pathology as part of the application documentation and be certified as compliant before employment can commence.
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 invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. We do have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can also provide support ([email protected]) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website.
