Provide high quality clinical care to hospital in-patients and patients at rural clinics. Assist the Director of Medical Services Innisfail Hospital in the development of safe medical practice and optimising clinical skills for medical and nursing staff.

Job details

The Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service covers a large geographic area with a diverse and growing population. The Health Service provides a wide range of primary care, acute and specialist services. Our staff are a part of the community we serve, and we strongly believe that health outcomes are enhanced by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of local health services.

We are seeking an enthusiastic Rural Generalist to join our team in tropical North Queensland. Innisfail Hospital is a 49 bed acute care hospital including 3 high dependency beds, staffed by Rural Generalists. We have a busy Emergency Department seeing 20k pxs per year. We have excellent critical care equipment and medical imaging capacity allowing advanced diagnostic and treatment capacity. Our inpatient unit has a 3 bed High Dependency allowing limited critical care capacity locally. Our Obstetric SMOs work with MGP midwives delivering > 200 babies per year with a LCSC rate of 25%. A collaborative environment exists with weekly multidisciplinary antenatal case conference and monthly multidisciplinary instrumental birth case review.

Our Obstetric service is supported by epidural anaesthesia and 24 hour laboratory and blood bank availability. Innisfail Hospital provides weekday obstetric only shifts and has minimised our SMO OBS rostering to ED on call shifts to aid in recruitment and retention of RG OBS. Innisfail Hospital has successfully transitioned DRANZCOG graduates to SMO OBS through supported on call and emergency LSCS second on call informal arrangements. Innisfail Hospital has a cohesive group of Rural Generalists with diverse interests and skills in anaesthesia, obstetrics, endoscopy, emergency, critical care, paediatrics, echocardiography, medical education and simulation. Apply Now!

Remuneration value range up to $471 273 p.a. (L13-L27) FT employer contribution to superannuation (up to 12.75%), annual leave loading, professional development allowance, motor vehicle allowance, professional development leave 3.6 weeks p.a., private practice arrangements, plus an Inaccessibility allowance of $13,800 per annum FT (category 6) 100% paid after twelve months completion period.

As a Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service employee, not only will you receive competitive remuneration, you will also have access to:

• Generous superannuation
• Salary packaging
• Annual incremental increases
• Career training and development
• Flexible work arrangements
• Wellness programs

Why choose Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service ?

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You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Cairns and Hinterland here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland 

Permanent Fulltime or Part time, Senior Medical Officer (Rural Generalist, Procedural Obstetrics)

Applications will remain current for 12 months. Job Ad Reference: CAH625762

Purpose of the Role
Working at the Innisfail Hospital within rural health services across the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service, you will contribute as a dynamic Senior Medical Officer with advanced skills in Anaesthetics, providing high quality clinical care to hospital in-patients and patients at rural clinics. You will assist the Director of Medical Services, Innisfail Hospital in the development of safe medical practice and optimising clinical skills for medical and nursing staff.

Your Opportunity

You will provide a high standard of care for patients and their families, contributing to improving the health of the local population. An opportunity to become part of a dedicated multidisciplinary team, striving to grow a health service exceeding in healthcare, research and teaching.

How to Apply:
Please download the Role Description and Information Package for Applicants (at the links in the boxed area above) for instructions on how to apply for this role. If you have difficulty viewing this role description in .pdf format, please contact Recruitment.Cairns@health.qld.gov.au to request it in .doc format. Please note that if the information requested in the ‘how to apply' section is not provided, plus the now mandatory requirement for all curriculum vitae to be provided in a standard template, you may not meet the requirements for further consideration of your application. The Information Package for Applicants outlines pre-employment checks that will be undertaken for successful applicants.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

*APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY ONLINE* The following file types are accepted: .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .png, .rtf, .txt, .doc and docx. Do not upload zipped files, pdf documents created through Microsoft Word 2007, tagged pdfs or protected documents.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 1. CHHHS Information for Applicants v.20 (PDF, 939KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  3. CV Format for Medical Practitioner (Word, 97KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  CAH625762 Role Description (PDF, 436KB)
  Role Description