Permanent Up to 0.7FTE Staff Specialist
Infectious Diseases
Westmead Hospital
To apply for this position, please complete an online application by clicking on the link below:
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Applications must be received by 5pm on the advertising closing date.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE 28 JANUARY 2025
The Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology is based at the Westmead campus, Western Sydney Local Health District and Western Clinical School, University of Sydney. It incorporates comprehensive Research, Clinical and Laboratory Service and Teaching components of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. It hosts the NSW Specialist Service for High Consequence Infectious Diseases, incorporating the NSW Biocontainment Centre. Other clinical services include inpatient, outpatient and consultative services and management of antimicrobial stewardship and infection control/hospital epidemiology in the Western Sydney Local Health District, together with HIV and sexual health services across the Local Health District. Active research is undertaken in basic and applied science in the following areas: infections in immunosuppressed haematology patients and the critically ill, clinical epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, mycology, virology, health informatics, HIV medicine, vaccine preventable diseases, emerging infections and infections of public health importance.
The Department of Infectious Diseases is closely affiliated with the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services (CIDMLS) of New South Wales Health Pathology - Westmead, which incorporates a large diagnostic service and public health microbiology reference laboratories as well as the CIDM Public Health communicable diseases/microbiology research and development program.
Facility-based services in Infectious Diseases are maintained at Westmead and Blacktown Hospitals, with the Director of Infectious Diseases based at Westmead Hospital acting in partnership with the Head of Department of Infectious Disease Services at Blacktown Mount Druitt Hospital.