Bring Your Clinical Expertise to Minor Injury & Illness Care

Make a difference in urgent care with Metro South Health! Join our multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality care for patients with minor injuries and illnesses across our Meadowbrook and Eight Mile Plains clinics. Bring your clinical expertise, support junior colleagues and help shape safe, responsive community-based care.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Senior Medical Officer, you will provide expert clinical assessment, treatment and decision-making within our extended-hours, seven-day-a-week Minor Injury and Illness Clinics. Working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team, you will help ensure patients receive the right care at the right time while supporting clinical excellence, education and continuous improvement.

• Assess, diagnose and manage patients presenting with urgent, non-life-threatening injuries and illnesses within the clinic's scope of practice.
• Perform clinical procedures including wound management and suturing, slit lamp examinations, superficial foreign body removal, incision and drainage of abscesses, and management of uncomplicated fractures and minor injuries, as appropriate to your scope of practice.
• Recognise clinical deterioration and presentations requiring higher-level care, initiating stabilisation and arranging appropriate escalation, referral or transfer.
• Provide senior clinical guidance, supervision and education to junior medical staff and students while fostering multidisciplinary collaboration and contributing to patient safety and service improvement.

About you:

You are an experienced medical practitioner who is committed to delivering safe, high-quality care in a fast-paced clinical environment. You bring strong clinical judgement, effective communication skills and a collaborative approach to patient care, alongside a commitment to supporting colleagues and improving health service delivery.

• Extensive experience delivering high-quality patient care, with the ability to assess and manage urgent presentations and make sound clinical decisions.
• Specialist Medical Registration, or eligibility for registration, with the Medical Board of Australia through AHPRA in General Practice or Emergency Medicine.
• The ability to provide clinical supervision, support multidisciplinary collaboration and contribute to a positive, respectful team culture.
• Strong interpersonal skills, empathy and the ability to communicate effectively with patients, families, carers and healthcare professionals.

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Meadowbrook Health Centre will provide a new Minor Injury and Illness Clinic and a Women's Health Outpatient Clinic.The Minor Injury and Illness Clinic will offer free, walk-in treatment for conditions not anticipated to be life-threatening. It will operate from 8am to 10pm, seven days a week, and is designed to help take pressure off Logan Hospital's emergency department for patients who do not require care in an acute hospital setting.

The Women's Health Outpatient Centre will provide a contemporary and convenient facility for local women attending antenatal and gynaecological appointments and tests.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

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. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

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

• Role Description_MS11696096 (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)