Description:
Medical Microbiologist, BC Children's Hospital
and BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre
PHSA
Laboratories provides laboratory medicine and pathology
services to the Agencies of the PHSA. The vision of
the PHSA Laboratories is to be the reference laboratory
of choice for tertiary and quaternary hospitals and
community healthcare systems, as the most responsive
source of quality information and knowledge. Clients
of PHSA Laboratories can select elements from diverse
laboratory and service areas to create customized relationships
that meet the needs of their unique communities. Together,
PHSA Laboratories and its clients will improve patient
care today and in the future.
The Provincial
Health Services Authority (PHSA) plans, manages and
evaluates selected specialty and province-wide health
care services across BC, working with the five geographic
health authorities to deliver province-wide solutions
that improve the health of British Columbians. PHSA
embodies values that reflect a commitment to excellence.
These include: Patients first •
Best value • Results matter • Improvements
through knowledge • Open to possibilities.
Medical
Microbiologist
BC Children's Hospital & BC Women's
Hospital and Health Centre
PHSA Laboratories
is recruiting a Full Time Medical Microbiologist whose
focus will be shared between providing clinical service
within Children's & Women's Health Centre and Infection
Control services for acute care sites within PHSA (Children's
and Women's Health Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Riverview
Hospital). You will work collaboratively with medical,
scientific and technical staff to provide clinical
medical microbiology for C&W and infection control
service for all PHSA's affiliated Agencies. Some travel
may be required to the various BC Cancer Agency Centres
across British Columbia. This role will see you assume
responsibility for interpretation, reporting and consultation
with clinicians and participation in the on-call roster.
Although the focus of this position is clinical service
and infection control, you will have the chance to
gain experience in issues uniquely related to maternal/fetal
infections and pediatric infections. There will be
opportunity to participate in ongoing research and
to gain experience in molecular diagnostic techniques
pertinent to acute care medical microbiology or infection
control.
As well as being eligible for licensure
in British Columbia, you are certified by the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Medical
Microbiology, or hold an equivalent certification.
Expertise in pediatrics and/or pediatric medical microbiology
and infection control would be highly beneficial. You
will be appointed to the appropriate faculty rank with
the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia.
Academic initiatives have been carefully integrated
with clinical services to maximize patient care and
to enhance teaching and research endeavors in a collaborative
manner. UBC and its affiliates hire on the basis of
merit and are committed to employment equity. We encourage
all qualified persons to apply; however, Canadians
and permanent residents will be given priority.
We
invite you to apply online for this position at
http://careers.phsa.ca
For more information on all that the PHSA has to offer,
please visit our website.
