Employment Type: Fee for Service and Sessional
Position Classification: Visiting Medical Officer
Renumeration: VMO Fee For Service and VMO Sessional Determination
Hours Per Week: As per Roster
Location:
Applications Close: 22 December 2024 - 11.59pm
About the opportunity
An attractive opportunity exists for an Intensivist interested in working in a Visting Medical Officer position to provide Intensive Care inpatient services at our hospital.
You will be providing contemporary comprehensive specialist services for optimal patient outcomes by providing support and training to other clinicians in a dynamic multidisciplinary team. Your aim will be to achieve quality education and safe clinical practice to patients and clients in our local community.
What we can offer you
· Country living with a meaningful career path
· Flexible work practices (as appropriate to the position and negotiated with your manager)
· Corporate wellbeing programs
· Opportunities for learning and development, including in-house training with and the NSW Health RTO
· Professional growth and accelerated career progression
Where you'll be working
You will be based at our hospital, a part of the Western NSW Local Health District.
With a focus on innovative models of care, our hospital is the largest rural hospital in New South Wales and the regional teaching, referral and trauma centre for the Central West. Newly developed in 2011, our 520 bed state of the art facility has a 200 bed general hospital, with five operating suites and 60 specialised treatment areas.
To apply, please address the following Selection Criteria
1. Current Authority to Practice as a Medical Practitioner with the Medical Board of Australia/Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) or eligibility for same.
2. Fellowship of the Royal College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand or other specialist recognition as provided for in the Staff Specialist (State) Award or under the Health Insurance Act 1973.
3. Australian/New Zealand citizen or permanent resident, or eligible for sponsorship to work in Australia.
4. Demonstrated technical and professional competence as a Consultant Intensivist, with clinical hospital experience within the last two years.
5. Demonstrated participation in, and commitment to quality assurance activities relevant to the practice of Intensive Care Medicine.
6. Demonstrated excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills, especially with senior medical practitioners and clinicians.
7. Commitment to minimising unwarranted clinical variation and to work within the culture of ICU including attendance, documentation, handover, supervision of trainees and agreed clinical portfolios.
8. Commitment to equitable participation in the on-call roster with other Consultant Intensivists, as rostered.
