Staff Specialist in Emergency Medicine - Armidale Rural Referral Hospital - Fixed Term for 12 Months
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time - 12 months
Position Classification: Staff Specialist
Remuneration: 197583 - 243822
Hours Per Week: 40
Requisition ID: REQ670591
12-Month Fixed Term Appointments - Armidale Rural Referral Hospital | Hunter New England Local Health District
Help provide stability, leadership and outstanding patient care during a critical period of transition. Hunter New England Local Health District is seeking to recruit three full-time Emergency Medicine Consultants to join Armidale Rural Referral Hospital for a 12-month fixed-term period.
These appointments have been specifically established to support the Emergency Department during a planned period of service renewal and workforce transition. Working as part of a dedicated consultant team, successful applicants will play an important caretaker role, providing clinical leadership, supporting junior medical staff and ensuring continuity of safe, high-quality emergency care while a permanent consultant workforce is recruited and transitioned into the service.
This opportunity would suit Emergency Physicians who enjoy rural and regional practice, are seeking a fixed-term appointment, or are looking for a professionally rewarding role where they can make an immediate and meaningful contribution.
The Opportunity
As a Staff Specialist in Emergency Medicine, you will:
- Provide specialist emergency care across a broad spectrum of presentations.
- Support the Emergency Department through a period of workforce transition and service stabilisation.
- Deliver clinical leadership and mentorship to junior medical, nursing and multidisciplinary staff.
- Work collaboratively with hospital leadership to maintain service performance and patient outcomes.
- Contribute to a positive culture focused on clinical excellence, teamwork and patient-centred care.
These roles are designed to provide stability and experienced clinical oversight while the department undertakes a planned rebuilding phase.
About Armidale Rural Referral Hospital
The Emergency Department services a referral population of approximately 55,000 people across the New England region. The hospital is modern, spacious and well-equipped, with significant redevelopment completed in recent years. Clinicians benefit from the support of a collaborative executive team and strong professional links throughout Hunter New England Local Health District.
Why Choose Armidale?
Lifestyle and variety are among the greatest attractions of regional emergency medicine. Set high on the beautiful Northern Tablelands, Armidale offers stunning natural scenery, a vibrant arts and cultural scene, excellent schools, the University of New England, and easy access to both Sydney and Brisbane. Whether you are seeking a change of pace, a rural emergency medicine experience, or a fixed-term opportunity that allows you to make a real difference, Armidale provides the ideal setting.
A Unique 12-Month Opportunity - These positions offer the opportunity to assist guiding the Emergency Department through an important period of transition. Your contribution will help maintain clinical excellence, support staff and patients, and create a strong foundation for the next chapter of emergency care at Armidale Rural Referral Hospital.
The provision of contemporary, comprehensive and professional specialist services that are safe, effective, evidence based and patient centred.
Mandatory requirements of this role include:
- Admitting, consultative, diagnostic, procedural, outpatient, telehealth and on-call services as determined and required by HNELHD
- Attendance and availability during rostered work hours and whilst on call including clinical handover, clinical supervision, teaching and for emergency and routine care as determined and required by HNELHD.
- Provision of education and research as determined and required by HNELHD
- A primary medical degree registrable with AHPRA and Fellowship of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and/or overseas trained specialist pathways.
- Evidence of being a medical expert, demonstrated by recent and comprehensive experience in Emergency Medicine
- Evidence of being a scholar, maintains medical professional development and has the ability to assist other staff, including trainees in the acquisition and development of knowledge.
- Evidence of being a skilled communicator, including both oral and written skills, communicating with patients, students, other health professionals and the public.
- Evidence of being a collaborator, including the ability to network and operate within an interdisciplinary framework and to work with other stakeholders in a variety of settings.
- Evidence of being a manager, including ability to be flexible and cope with a changing health system, past leadership and management experience and previous safety and quality improvement activities.
- Evidence of being a professional, including continued professional development, peer review and other forms of clinical governance.
- Evidence of being an advocate, including contributions to improving individual and societal health.
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For role related queries or questions contact Cheryl Hayes on Cheryl.Hayes1@health.nsw.gov.au
Applications Close: 4 August 2026
