Position: Provisional Fellow, Clinical Ethics
Duration: 3 August 2026 - 31 January 2027
Part time, up to 1.0FTE
St Vincent's Hospital Sydney (SVHS) is establishing a dedicated Clinical Ethics Support Service (CESS) to provide structured, rapid-response ethical consultation to medical and surgical teams across the hospital. The CESS is an expression of St Vincent’s national commitment to uplift the place of clinical ethics across the organisations public and private, aged care, and virtual and at home services.
Focused on SVHS, the Clinical Ethics Liaison Registrar will play a foundational role in this new service, working alongside the Clinical Ethics Lead to deliver expert decision support to clinicians and health service managers confronting complex ethical questions in delivering patient care.
This position is open to advanced trainees from all medical specialties who demonstrate a strong commitment to clinical ethics. The Registrar will be co-located with their training program team, allowing them to develop new skills in clinical ethics consultation, as well as to further deepen their understanding of the relationship between clinical ethics and their training specialty.
The registrar will contribute to all five domains of the SVHS CESS: clinical ethics consultation, education and capacity building, organisational ethics and policy, research and scholarship, and service planning and development. This is a leadership position within the hospital community, offering a unique opportunity to help shape a new service, develop specialist expertise in applied bioethics, and produce scholarly work of significance.
Candidates with formal academic ethics training, active research in ethics-related fields, and demonstrated excellence in both academic writing and non-academic communication are particularly encouraged to apply.
For more information, please contact Linda Sheahan ( linda.sheahan@svha.org.au)
At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
For further information, visit https /www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au
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The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
