Anaesthetic Consultant

Location: North West Region | Bendigo

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Bendigo Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical and Nursing, Medical

Reference: 14362

**Work in an environment that offers**:

- Accredited (ANZCA) training site
- Relocation Support Assistance available for successful applicant
- An opportunity to work with a leading regional health service that embraces new technologies

**Location**:

- Bendigo is one of Victoria’s fastest growing regional cities making it a great city to live and work in.
- A regional city that offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities.
- Melbourne city centre is 2 hours from Bendigo and 1 hour 25 minutes from Tullamarine (Melbourne) airport.
- The local Bendigo Regional Airport is about to be expanded and currently runs daily return flights direct to Sydney.

**Position Requirements**
- A current FANZCA college report outcome assessment

**Position Details**

Position Title: Consultant - Anaesthetist (3 positions available)
Classification: HM33 - HM41
Salary per hour (exc. super): $126.25 - $173.60 per hour
Hours per fortnight: 76
Employment Status: Full Time ongoing / Staff Specialist
Other requirements: COVID-19 Vaccination including Booster, successful credentialing

**Role Description**

There are 3 permanent opportunities available for experienced Anaesthetic Consultants to join the Anaesthetics Speciality at Bendigo Health. Reporting to the Clinical Unit Head Anaesthetics, the Staff Specialist Anaesthetist will provide anaesthesia and related services to all interventional disciplines except Cardiac Surgery, Neurosurgery and Transplant Surgery.

As Bendigo Health is an accredited training site, the position’s responsibilities include teaching of anaesthetic trainees as well as other junior medical staff, medical students and nursing staff.

**The Anaesthetics Department**
The Bendigo Anaesthetic Department is accredited by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) as a training site for anaesthetic trainees for up to 24 months of training time.

The Anaesthetic Department is located in the Interventional Suite complex and consists of the Anaesthetic team, a Departmental Secretary and Acute Pain nurses.

The Anaesthetic team consists of a number of fulltime and part time Specialist Anaesthetists, assisted by Registrars, who provide a wide range of services to both public and private patients.

Apart from delivering anaesthetic services in the Interventional Suite and pre-admission clinic, the Anaesthetic Department provides an Acute Pain Service and an Obstetric Anaesthesia service, as well as off-site services to Medical Imaging, Intensive Care and the Emergency Department.

**Bendigo Health**

Our 700 bed state of the art hospital was built in 2017. We are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture. We have all of the latest technologies allowing our 5000 staff to deliver _Excellent Care to Every Person, Every Time._ Remuneration is in accordance with Victorian Public Health Enterprise Agreements and generous salary packaging arrangements are offered to all staff. Bendigo Health offer:

- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Salary Packaging
- Financial relocation support available for applicants undergoing permanent relocation
- Reimbursements for the cost of obtaining any required pre-employment checks (Police Check, WWCC and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check)
- Staff health and wellbeing programs
- Access to recommended immunisations
- Smoke free environment

If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

**Diversity and Inclusion**

Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.