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Employment Type

Temporary Part Time

Position Classification

Staff Specialist

Hours Per Week

16

Requisition ID

REQ698742

The Adolescent Medicine department at The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (SCHN) are seeking a temporary 0.4 FTE (16 hours per week) Staff Specialist to join their team. The expected commencement date for this role is 1st November 2026, with an end date of 30th June 2027. The position will be based at the Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW) in the Eating Disorders Service.

What You'll Be Doing

The primary purpose of the Staff Specialist in Adolescent Medicine is to provide specialist medical care for patients within the Eating Disorder Service. The Staff Specialist position works collaboratively with the Psychological Medicine Staff Specialists and multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive medical treatment and psychological care for patients and their families. It includes, inpatient and outpatient services, clinical supervision for junior medical staff, contribution to Adolescent Medicine on Call service and specialist medical cover for various clinical services within the Department as required. The position will contribute to strategic planning, service development, quality improvement, teaching and education, supervision of junior medical staff.

Clinical Services Within The Department Include

SCHN Eating Disorder Service (EDS)

SCHN Eating Disorder Service (EDS)



provides treatment for children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders from across New South Wales. Comprehensive programs at The Children's Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick include Inpatient re‑feeding admissions, outpatient treatment, intensive day treatment, family admission program, parent groups and extensive family therapy program. The EDS also has a well‑established clinical research program and regularly provides training, education and supervision to other services. The EDS is jointly managed and staffed by the Department of Psychological Medicine and Department of Adolescent Medicine.

Complex Adolescent Clinic (CAC)

Complex Adolescent Clinic (CAC) provides multidisciplinary medical and psychosocial assessment and management of adolescents with complex chronic conditions, chronic pain and fatigue syndromes impacting on their wellbeing and function.

CICADA

CICADA Service is a lifespan approach to the Care and Intervention for Children and Adolescents affected by Drugs and Alcohol. The clinical service provides multidisciplinary comprehensive diagnostic assessment and management for high‑risk vulnerable children and adolescents with FASD, substance use within the family or of the Adolescent.

Gender Services (GS)

Gender Services (GS) provides an interdisciplinary service between Adolescent Medicine,



Psychological Medicine and Paediatric Endocrinology providing cooperative medical and psychosocial assessment, management for trans and gender diverse children and adolescents.

Various other services include Other Adolescent Medicine services include clinics, Adolescent Gynaecology, Adolescent Bladder Clinics, Self‑Management Service, Adolescent Endocrine clinic, Group Programs and Youth Arts.

SCHN is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity - we acknowledge the vibrancy that a diverse workforce brings to enhance both our workplace culture and our service delivery to children, young people and their families and carers. We encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply. If you identify as an Indigenous Australian or as a person with a disability, please contact us if you would like some more information about our recruitment process.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. We recognise the value of Aboriginal staff providing health care to Aboriginal children and families that access the services we provide at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network. Aboriginal job applicants are encouraged to visit the NSW Health Aboriginal Recruitment tool, Stepping Up to assist in preparing your application.

Please refer to the Application Guide and NSW Policy Directive PD2022_030 Occupational Assessment Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases for vaccination requirements.

This position requires a Working with Children Check (WWCC) issued by the Office of the Children’s Guardian. For more information on how to apply for the clearance, please visit the Office of the Children’s

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