SNSWLHD - VMO / Staff Specialist - Oncologist - South East Regional Hospital - BEGA - Apply Via eCredential

Employment Type: Full Time / Part Time / Job Share / Regular Rotation

Location: South East Regional Hospital – Bega
Position Classification: VMO or Staff Specialist

Renumeration: – VMO Click here to view rates or Staff Specialist Click here to find out more

Requisition ID: REQ607918

Applications Close: Sunday 12th October, 2025

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


An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and qualified Oncologist to join the medical team at South East Regional Hospital 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:

• Renumeration – VMO Click here to view rates or Staff Specialist Click here to find out more

• Flexible work arrangements

• Salary Packaging – up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + Novated leasing - Click to find out more

• Corporate Health and Fitness program

• 11% Superannuation on top of your gross income

• Annual Leave Loading
  
  
  
  Your Opportunity:
   

• Provide high quality, evidence based, patient focused medical oncology services to patients with solid tumour cancers in the Bega Valley.

• Participate in specialist multidisciplinary team meetings, ensuring where possible that complex patient cases, and cases which fall outside the medical oncologist's sub-specialisation, are presented at multidisciplinary team meetings prior to a decision on disease management and commencement of treatment.Lead the development of processes and resources (including virtual technology) to enrol eligible patients into clinical trials, including establishing relationships with tertiary clinical trials units.

• Lead and participate in relevant research and safety and quality projects to guide service improvement, including participation in mortality and morbidity meetings, monitoring of clinical risk, and ensuring services are compliant with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare standards, Work Health & Safety Act and NSW Health Risk management frameworks.

• Participate in formal and informal peer review and other Continuing Medical Education activities consistent with College and Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) requirements to maintain professional standards. 

• Provide oversight of care when not on site, including but not limited to remaining available and responsive to telephone calls and emails from the oncology unit regarding patient care, care plan approvals, dosing adjustments, toxicity and side effect management, prioritization, triage and scheduling.

• Ensure the routine use of SNSWLHD electronic clinical management systems, including comprehensive documentation of patient care in the MOSAIQ oncology management information system to accurately reflect clinical decisions regarding disease management and patient care, and electronic chemotherapy prescribing via MOSAIQ for all new courses of treatment.

• Provide training and education to the local oncology team including nursing and allied health clinicians and junior medical staff.

• Participate in the medical on-call roster in accordance with clinical privileges.

• Lead a process of ongoing review of existing electronic treatment protocols in line with changes to the evidence (using the eviQ database published by the Cancer Institute NSW) and participate as required in the development of new protocols for publishing in MOSAIQ.