Clinical Measurement Scientist, Queensland Health

Casual opportunity to provide independent, routine Clinical Measurement Scientist (Cardiac) services across a broad range of clinical areas within the RBWH Cardiac Investigation Unit and the State-wide Tele-Cardiac Investigations Service, under the clinical practice supervision of a more experienced practitioner, and as a member of the multidisciplinary clinical team.

About the role

Casual opportunity to provide independent, routine Clinical Measurement Scientist (Cardiac) services across a broad range of clinical areas within the RBWH Cardiac Investigation Unit and the State-wide Tele-Cardiac Investigations Service, under the clinical practice supervision of a more experienced practitioner, and as a member of the multidisciplinary clinical team.

About you

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can carry out the following key accountabilities in accordance with the Metro North Health's values:

• In accordance with policies, procedures, guidelines, and prescribed professional and ethical standards, independently perform, report, analyse and interpret findings of routine Clinical Measurement Scientist (Cardiac) investigations including but not limited to: ECG, Holter Monitoring application and analysis, Exercise stress testing, patient monitoring component in Nuclear Medicine stress and Stress Echocardiography testing, tilt table testing, event monitoring and BP monitoring.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with multidisciplinary team members, patients, and their families/carers to ensure common understanding of Cardiac Clinical Investigation testing processes and to enable effective patient outcomes.
• Contribute to operational management activities such as collection of statistics, appropriate and safe use of allocated resources and the analysis and interpretation of multidisciplinary Cardiac Investigations Unit evaluation data to make recommendations about improvements to Clinical Measurement Scientist (Cardiac) services.

Health Equity

It is expected that all Metro North Health staff, including the incumbent of this role as a valuable member of the Metro North workforce, contribute to the health equity agenda and meet the intent of supporting the defined six actions that specifically meet the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS), by actively supporting the elimination of racial discrimination and institutional racism; supporting increased access to health care; influencing the social, cultural and economic determinants of health; supporting the delivery of sustainable, culturally safe and responsive health services;  and recognise the importance of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities and organisations to design, deliver, monitor and review the health and support services we provide.

Benefits when working for Metro North Allied Health

• Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
• Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of 12.75% and access to generous salary packaging ( https://www.health.qld.gov.au/employment/conditions/salary/sacrifice )
• Additional entitlements for employees (casual employees excluded) may include sick leave, carer's leave, long service leave, paid parental leave, leave without pay to travel, professional development allowance and leave
• 5% annual leave loading with up to 27.5% for shift workers
• Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
• Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro North here: https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/careers ( https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/careers )