Snswlhd - Registrar / Cmo - General Surgery

**Employment Type**: Full Time / Part Time / Job Share / Regular Rotation
**Location**: Bateman's Bay / Moruya - Eurobodalla Shire
**Position Classification**: Career Medical Off Grade 1

**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ326980
**Applications Close**:Ongoing**

**We welcome you to come and join our friendly, committed and proud team at Southern NSWLHD**

At Southern NSW Local Health District (Southern) we are working to help our communities lead healthy lives. Our mission is that all people across our diverse societies have timely access to the right healthcare in the right setting to maximise their health, wellbeing and independence.

Southern covers a large area of the state, from Goulburn and Crookwell to the Victorian border, and surrounds The ACT on three sides. A total of 44 537sq kms, extending from the pristine beaches of the NSW South Coast, the farmlands of the Southern Table lands, across the picturesque Monaro and spectacular Snowy Mountains of the Great Dividing Range.

We are home to five large Aboriginal nations - the Gundungurra, Ngambri, Ngunnawal, Ngarigo and Yuin people. Southern NSWLHD comprises of four Networks - Tablelands is centred around Goulburn, Monaro centred around Queanbeyan and Cooma, the Coastal Network located in the far south-east corner of NSW, and the Integrated Care Network.

**Where you'll be working**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably Unaccredited Registrar or Career Medical Officer to join the General Surgery team at Batemans Bay and/or Moruya Hospital in the Eurobodalla Shire, part of the Coastal Network.

The Eurobodalla Health Service is located in the Yuin Nation on the beautiful south coast of NSW. It is a networked service spread over three campuses, with two hospitals co-located with community health, Batemans Bay and Moruya, and a standalone community health centre in Narooma collocated with the library.

The NSW Government has announced $260 million to build in Moruya, a sustainable, modern and purpose-built hospital to support the needs of the entire Eurobodalla Shire from Narooma to Batemans Bay to service the ever-growing coastal population. This new facility is expected to open to patients in 2025.

**Batemans Bay Hospital** is a 31 bed hospital at level 2 role delineation. It offers the following services:

- Emergency department
- Inpatient acute medical provided by General Practitioners
- Day only surgery - cataract surgery, minor orthopaedics, minor urology and gastrointestinal endoscopy
- Subacute - inpatient palliative care and patients waiting for rehabilitation
- Pathology collection
- X-ray

**The Moruya Hospital** - is a 55 bed hospital at level 3 role delineation. It offers the following services:

- Emergency department
- Inpatient acute medical care provided by General Practitioners
- General and gynaecological surgery
- Sub-acute - inpatient rehabilitation and palliative care
- Maternity (antenatal care, birthing and post-natal care)
- Hospital in The Home
- An outreach renal dialysis satellite service as a formal network from Canberra
- Pathology
- X-ray, ultrasound and CT

**What you'll be doing**

Provide high quality clinical services to patients in the general surgical service in Batemans Bay and Moruya District Hospitals

**Wonderful Local Benefits**

There is an abundance of lifestyle benefits available to you in country New South Wales and you will be amazed at what there is offer - and it all comes without the queues and crowds of a big city. For more information visit our website.

Batemans Bay - a short 24 kilometres from Moruya, 226 kilometres south of Sydney, 149 kilometres from Canberra or 306 kilometres from the NSW Snow fields. Batemans Bay is located a short 22 kilometres from the Moruya airport which offers a short 40 minute flight to Sydney and daily flights to Melbourne.

With a range of quality private and public schools in the area, younger generations are 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.

Working in rural NSW has many personal and professional benefits. The following link contain stories of some of our NSW Health professionals who live and work in rural NSW. They share why they choose to work in rural NSW and what they love about it. **Watch our short video here.**

**Selection Criteria**
- Registered or eligible for General registration as a Medical Practitioner by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- At least two years post graduate clinical experience in a hospital setting
- Appropriate experience to practice under the supervision of a consultant specialist general surgeon
- Qualifications and experience commensurate with level of appointment
- Demonstrated ability to collaboratively within the multidisciplinary teams
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise workloads and display a flexible approach to meet changing situations and unpredictable cli