Intern

Location: Orange NSW

Employment Type: Temporary Various

Position Classification: Intern

Remuneration:  $76,009.00

Hours Per Week: 38 hours per week

Eligibility Requirements 

To be eligible for this position you must be a graduate from an Australian or New Zealand AMC accredited medical school.

To apply for a Rural Preferential Recruitment (RPR) Prevocational Training position in NSW you must: 

1. Have successfully completed a Medical Intern Recruitment Application online for a NSW intern position.

2. Meet eligibility and the NSW Health priority list criteria for medical graduate recruitment.

3. Be expected to complete your medical degree this year or have completed your degree in the past two years.

4. Have not previously worked as a doctor.

More about RPR:  https://www.heti.nsw.gov.au/education-and-training/courses-and-programs/medical-graduate-recruitment/rural-preferential-recruitment 

The applicant must have a commitment to rural practice and rural communities

The JMO Experience at our Health District

Experience the breadth and depth of work that Orange Health Service has to offer, feel engaged, involved and supported throughout the foundation of your medical career. Enjoy the welcoming culture, smiling faces, and the broader Orange community to build bonds with your Junior and Senior colleagues that will last a lifetime.

Our team strive to provide equitable and flexible rostering systems. We work hard to ensure your term preferences and rosters are built in consultation with you. This is so we can understand and support your career aspirations and work/life balance. We want your time at Orange to be more than just an enriching training opportunity so you can look back on this experience as time where you were connected to the local community, each other, and this beautiful part of the world.

Watch our video for the JMO Experience in Western NSW Local Health District.

Local Area and Background

Orange Health Services is a 270-bed major non-metropolitan referral hospital, serving a population of 300,000. It constitutes the largest Rural Campus in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the regional trauma centre for Western NSW and has a fully FACEM staffed ED. The Intensive Care Unit is the referral unit for the Local Health District. It is a level 5 unit and is staffed accordingly. There are a comprehensive range of specialist services including almost all medical and surgical services, with the exception of spinal, burns, cardiothoracic and neurosurgical. Of note, there are services such as interventional cardiology, and endovascular suite, and excellent on-site digital radiology, including a 3T MRI and 2 LINACs for radiation oncology. Orange Health Service also has acute specialists in cardiology, renal, gastroenterology, respiratory medicine, haematology, endocrinology, ophthalmology and specialists in medical and radiation oncology. There are also local specialists in palliative care, nuclear medicine and dermatology.

Just three and a half hours from Sydney, Orange is one of Australia’s leading wine growing regions, with a love of fine food and coffee, and a burgeoning café culture. With good schools, and thriving farming and mining communities young professionals and families alike are drawn to this unique Australian Country Town. Perhaps unexpected is Orange’s involvement in the Arts with a vibrant musical and theatrical scene and is a fixture for touring international and Australian theatre and orchestral companies. Orange is rich in festivals highlighting local produce and featuring celebrity chefs from Sydney and Melbourne, while also having 3 “Hatted” restaurants in the area. The hospital is very much at the heart of the town, and new staff will find themselves welcomed by a friendly, cosmopolitan community.

Orange Health Service is a teaching hospital associated with the University of Sydney and Charles Sturt University. There is an excellent record of success in college professional exams and also future placement with metropolitan hospital training programs.

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, including the Fitness Passport
• Opportunities for learning and development, including in-house training with My Health Learning and the NSW Health RTO
• Professional growth and accelerated career progression

Where you’ll be working

You will be based at Orange Health Service, a part of the Western NSW Local Health District. For more information on living and working in our beautiful region, visit our website Western NSW Health Careers.