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SNSWLHD - Staff Specialist / VMO General Surgeon - South East Regional Hospital - Apply Via eCredential

🔍 Bega, South East Regional Hospital | South Coast

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General Surgery
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REQ510338 Requisition #
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Oct 24, 2024 Post Date

Employment Type:  Full Time / Part Time / Job Share / Regular Rotation 
Location: South East Regional Hospital - Bega 
Position Classification: Staff Specialist / Visiting Medical Officer
Remuneration: Staff Specialist Click here to view rates VMO Click here to view rates
Requisition ID: REQ510338
Applications Close: Friday 8th November, 2024


Come and join our Surgeons here in Bega – it’s great!


An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and qualified General Surgeon to join the medical team at South East Regional Hospital a Level 4 Health Facility based in the Bega Valley, part of the Southern NSW - Coastal Network.


Where you’ll be working

Bega - 429 kilometres south of Sydney, 228 kilometres from Canberra or 174 kilometres from the NSW Snow fields. Nearby Merimbula (32 kilometres) offers a regional airport with a short 55 minute flight to Sydney and daily flights to Melbourne. With a range of quality private and public schools in the area, younger generations are also be well looked after, growing up with fantastic friendly country folk, and a huge range of outdoor activities to keep them occupied with no long commutes.







Progress your career and discover all that Bega has to offer

Our Offer:

Your Opportunity:

  • Provide best practice evidence-based specialist general surgery clinical services to achieve quality patient outcomes
  • Provide high level care to surgical patients, managing elective surgery and emergency surgery presentations, attending specialist clinics, in patient referrals and patients admitted through the Emergency Department
  • Ensure all clinical documentation is completed contemporaneously, including in assessment and plans within the electronic medical record, operative notes and other relevant documentation such as discharge summaries and death certificates
  • Undertake supervision and education within the clinical environment of medical students, junior medical staff and other relevant staff to foster safe clinical practice
  • Utilise information systems to enable informed decision making and care planning.
  • Ensure communication with patients and their carers, such that they are involved in their care and aware of the purpose of the plans for their care
  • Communicate with staff and clinicians to ensure quality and continuity of care.
  • Engages in practices that promote the best possible health outcomes for patients/clients, and supports a culture of patient safety, clinical quality and innovation.
  • Actively participate in clinical governance and quality programs and risk management to improve organisational processes and own practices.
  • Work within a defined scope of clinical practice and within the service capability/role delineation of the service
  • Comply with relevant legislation and regulations, NSW Ministry of Health policies and SNSWLHD procedures to assist in meeting Activity Based Funding, Commonwealth and State targets
  • Engages in practices that promote the best possible health outcomes for patients/clients, and supports a culture of patient safety, clinical quality and innovation.


Click here for the Position Description

Click here for Role Delineation


Selection Criteria:

  1. Eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia as a Specialist General Surgeon and/or overseas trained specialist pathways.
  2. Demonstrated recent clinical experience in General Surgery at the role delineation of the service.
  3. Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and provide leadership of a team.
  4. Demonstrated effective clinical communication through the use of information technology and written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
  5. Demonstrated commitment to teaching, continuing education, research and quality improvement.
  6. Availability to participate in an on-call roster and to respond on site within a reasonable time

 

Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases

This is a Category ‘A’ position, please read and understand NSW Health policy directive PD2024_015. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in this policy. OASV requirements also include proof of vaccination against influenza and is compulsory for NSW Staff that enter any Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) or who work in NSW Health owned and operated RACFs.

 

Australian Work Rights

Please note that to apply for this position you must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident of Australia or be able to independently and legally live and work in Australia by way of your own Temporary Visa. For more information, please see www.immi.gov.au

At Southern NSW Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.



Need more information?
  1) Click here for the Position Description
  2) Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions contact Elizabeth Mullins on Elizabeth.Mullins@health.nsw.gov.au

Applications Close: Friday 8th November, 2024

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