Provisional Fellow - Clinical Ethics

Job Description:

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 ([email protected])

Reconciliation Action Plan:

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 [email protected]

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