WNSWLHD - Staff Specialist/Visiting Medical Officer - Emergency FACEM - Bathurst. Apply via eCredential

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time / Sessional
Position Classification:  Staff Specialist / Visiting Medical Officer
Remuneration: $186,241 - $229,825 p.a. / As per VMO Sessional Determination

Hours Per Week: Up to 40 hours per week
Location: Bathurst | NSW Government

Applications Close:  13 July 2025 - 11.59pm

Western NSW Local Health District is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability and people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply for our advertised positions. If you require any assistance with your application or have any questions about this position, please get in touch with the contact person listed in this advertisement.

About the opportunity

• Wide range of presentations – fewer sub specialities
• Innovative team who embrace change – you can influence and be a part
• Opportunities to participate and drive whole of hospital and district-wide initiatives
• Brand new department build, opening in 2027.

Expand your clinical skills. Scale up your career. Got your eye on more than ED? This is the role for you.

With 26,000 presentations annually and fewer sub-specialists, you’ll have the opportunity to manage a wider range of emergency presentations, developing your skills and increasing proficiency, adaptability and confidence in practice areas not usually experienced in larger teams. 

Work is about to commence on the $200m redevelopment at Bathurst Hospital which includes doubling the size of ED, clinician designed workspaces and the latest technology integrations.

The ED team is a diverse group of health professionals, including Emergency Medicine Specialists, GP VMOs, nurses, physiotherapists, an ASET nurse and a nurse practitioner. With an eye on the redevelopment, the team is already innovating the service with a focus on patient experience, and to create a more efficient and rewarding workplace. A number of models and processes have been recently implemented and more are currently being piloted. Our team embrace change and you can influence and be a part of that.

Bathurst offers a flexible and rewarding workplace. Our management is consultative and approachable with staff encouraged to contribute ideas/participate in innovation projects for better care and smarter systems.

Your roster will include overnight and on call, and with our District at the forefront of digital telehealth, you are digitally networked to over 100 Specialist Doctors within the District, including ED, who are available 24/7.

Flexibility in this role is negotiated to promote healthy work-life balance, and for career development, plus we encourage wellbeing with Schwartz rounds, yarning circle, medical staff council and clinical council all in place.

Professional Development

In addition to fast tracking the depth and breadth of your clinical skills, you’ll have the opportunity to step into leadership positions in governance, clinical, education, District-wide projects and in State-wide working groups, guideline committees, or on training bodies like HETI or ACEM.

Bathurst is a teaching hospital, and you can run or contribute to ED education programs, workshops and rural skills days as well as the day to day mentorship and supervision of junior staff and students.

Research and innovation are key drivers of our service, and your academic affiliation with universities, research and presenting at conferences, are all supported.

For further information on the position please see the Candidate Information Kit

This is a great opportunity to be a part of an already innovative team, where their impact is accelerating through service review plus the facilities and technology of the Bathurst Hospital redevelopment.

Bathurst ED is set to make a big difference to the community of Bathurst and surrounds. Why not join us?

What we can offer you

•        Remuneration:

o   Staff Specialists (employed full time by WNSWLHD): as per NSW Staff Specialists Award 2022  .

o   Visiting Medical Officers will be offered a sessional contract under the Public Hospitals (Visiting Medical Officers – Sessional Contracts) Determination 2014.

•        Up to $10K relocation expenses (critical positions only – VMO not eligible)

•        Fully furnished accommodation at no cost for up to three months

•        Pre-tax salary packaging:  (book appt to discuss)

o   Up to $9K for living expenses

o   Up to $2650 for meals & entertainment.

o   Stamp duty/legal costs of sale/purchase of house

•        Novated lease vehicles

•        Training education and study leave entitlement of 25 days (full time employees) and up to $37,000 a year in education funding. (Staff Specialists only)

Where you'll be working

Less than 3 hours by car to Sydney CBD Bathurst is Australia’s oldest inland colonial settlement and is close enough to feel accessible to the big city, but far enough away to feel relaxed & spacious. With a population of around 45 000 people, this vibrant, growing city has everything you need for a great place to call home.

Facilities in Bathurst include a very busy entertainment centre, regional art gallery, conservatorium, 3 museums, a cinema and a multitude of sporting facilities.  Bathurst is great for outdoor enthusiasts, garden lovers and history buffs.  A large shopping precinct, strong café scene and great local pubs and restaurants, public and private schools and Charles Sturt University are only part of the expansive community infrastructure that supports the Bathurst community.

For further information on Bathurst please visit our Bathurst community page

Challenge yourself. Make an impact. Shape the future.  Join us in Western NSW Local Health District.