The role of the Senior Doctor is to provide high quality clinical and non-clinical services to directly or indirectly benefit the patients/clients of the Metro North Hospital and Health Service. This includes research as well as teaching the health professionals of the future. In addition to the key responsibilities listed below, the role of the Senior Medical Officer (Specialist) is to provide such services as may be reasonably directed from time to time by your line manager as outlined on the Organisational Chart, including any intra-department portfolios allocated from time to time as outlined above.

Job details

Two of our five hospitals – Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) and The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) – are tertiary/quaternary referral hospitals, providing state-wide super specialty services, such as heart and lung transplantation and burns treatment. Redcliffe and Caboolture are major secondary hospitals, and Kilcoy is a regional community hospital.

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro North Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

• Oversee and lead the clinical governance of the Department and ensure best practice.

• Collaboratively contribute to monitoring and managing the budget and actual performance for Activity (WAU), Staff (FTEs) and Costs ($) and Quality for the Department, including patient safety, incident management, future planning and budgeting.

• Undertake performance appraisal PAD and KPI monitoring of other senior doctors within the department.

• Ensure rostering to provide appropriate clinical cover as well as manage recruitment and performance of staff within the department.

• Ensure appropriate representation at (Medical) leadership and clinical quality meetings on behalf of the department.

Job ad reference number: RD303016. Close date: 15/03/19.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

Why work for us?

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro North employee you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community. We encourage people of all genders, races, ages and abilities to apply for roles within our Health Service.

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro North here: https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/careers

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED VIA THIRD PARTIES (RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ETC.) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

Further information

If the information requested in the ‘how to apply’ section is not provided, plus the mandatory requirement for all curriculum vitaes in the standard template (as attached), you may not meet requirements for further consideration of your application.

Documents

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

• RD303016 - Role Description (PDF, 1.09MB)
  
  
  MNHHS_Information for applicants_V3 (PDF, 224KB)
  
  
  Medical Practitioner Curriculum Vitae v2 (Word, 62KB)
  
  
  VPD evidence form (Word, 328KB)
  
  
  vpd-evidence-form-applicant (Word, 336KB)