James Stewart Chair of Surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Closing date
- 29 Apr 2021
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- Academic Discipline
- Clinical, Pre-clinical & Health, Medicine & Dentistry
- Job Type
- Academic Posts, Professors / Chairs
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Work type: Fixed Term
Location: Hospital based
Division/Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Department/School: Melbourne Medical School
Role & Superannuation rate: Academic - Full time - 17% super
Salary: Level E, Professor - Attractive salary package will be negotiated including a startup support package
Superannuation: Employer Contribution of 17%
Working Hours: Full Time
Basis of Employment: 5 years with opportunity for extension
Opportunity
The James Stewart Chair of Surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital was established in 1955 and is a key leadership position at the University of Melbourne, reporting to the Head of the Department of Surgery in the Melbourne Medical School.
The James Stewart Chair of Surgery will be an outstanding surgeon, and an eminent authority in the field of surgery or its subspecialties, encompassing its clinical practice, teaching and research in its clinical aspects and in the scientific disciplines that form its basis. The appointee will be expected to make innovative and distinctive contributions to leadership in education, research and clinical surgery in the University of Melbourne’s Department of Surgery and more broadly across the surgical specialties at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
About you
You will possess:
- A medical qualification, registerable with the Medical Board of Australia
- Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgery or equivalent qualification
- PhD or equivalent research higher degree
- Recognition as an outstanding surgeon and an eminent authority in surgery or subspecialty with distinction at the national and international level
- Highly developed leadership skills
- Ability to provide strategic focus and direction, fostering a culture of innovation and collaborative academic achievement in the area of surgery
- A distinguished research career in a branch of surgery, including an excellent publication record in high impact peer reviewed journals
- Demonstrated sustained success in obtaining research grants and external research income (with emphasis on competitive, international and peer-reviewed)
About Us
The Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery is based across the seven precincts of the Melbourne Medical School, all at key hospital sites, as well as conducting academic activities in surgery at other hospitals. The Department of Surgery at Royal Melbourne Hospital forms the focus for academic activities in surgery for the University of Melbourne and the Parkville precinct. Members of the Department of Surgery number almost 100 paid academic and professional staff, and we have a substantive and active honorary appointment cohort of clinician scientists in excess of 400, who are involved in research and in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in surgery across the Melbourne Medical School. These activities are undertaken both within the Department, and more broadly on the hospital campuses.
https://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/school-structure/surgery
The Royal Melbourne Hospital
The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria’s first public hospital established in 1848, is a leading public health service in Victoria with a long history of providing the best possible care for patients and consumers. The health service is committed to applying evidence based research to drive improvements in clinical outcomes and healthcare experience. With a focus on teaching and education, the health service encourages lifelong learning to enable its people to realise their potential.
Serving a population of over 1 million, RMH provides a comprehensive range of acute, sub-acute and community public health services to our local community within Melbourne’s west and north, and as well as regional and rural Victorians. RMH is a designated state-wide provider for services including trauma, and lead centres of excellence for tertiary services such as cancer surgery, haematology, nephrology, cardiology, infectious diseases, neurosciences and mental health.
Employee Benefits
The University offers a number of employee benefits which can be maximised through our salary packaging scheme. Flexible family friendly policies include generous leave and working conditions as well as a substantial discount to eligible staff and their immediate family members undertaking further studies at the University.
To find out more, go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/staff-benefits
How to apply
Your application should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae and your responses against the selection criteria found in the Position Description for the role.
Position Description: PD James Stewart Chair of Surgery.pdf
Applications close: 29 Apr 2021 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time
Company
The University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing us as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and one of the world’s top 50*.
Melbourne attracts the best and brightest students and researchers and, with a history of over 160 years, we occupy a special place at the heart of our city’s cultural scene.
Melbourne is a leading research university, widely renowned for its teaching and the social and economic contributions it makes through knowledge transfer. The University’s performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Internationally, the University is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with its international peers placing it in the top 20 worldwide, and employers placing it in the top 10. In the recent Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top 200 universities, Melbourne ranked top in Australia and 33 in the world.
Melbourne’s international research pre-eminence was also acknowledged with a top 100 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. Ranked No. 44 in 2015, the University has climbed steadily in the rankings since first appearing at No. 92 in 2003.
The Melbourne Model introduces undergraduate programs characterised by both breadth and depth, followed by a graduate professional degree, a research higher degree or entry directly into employment.
In 2008 Melbourne commenced offering six New Generation undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science. The Melbourne Model also introduces a new graduate school experience to Australia, providing the best and brightest with a more focused, intense and professionally relevant degree in areas such as Law, Architecture, Teaching and Nursing. With the Melbourne curriculum now aligning the University with the world’s top universities in Europe, North America and Asia, we enable our students to develop the skills and attributes required by employers all over the world.
More than 50,000 students from over 120 countries take courses in the University’s 12 faculties and graduate schools.
For more information please visit: http://www.unimelb.edu.au
*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015
- Mini-site
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Telephone
- +61 (3) 8344 4000
- Location
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Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia
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