Emergency Cmo

**Challis Recruitment is currently recruiting Emergency Medicine Career Medical Officers to join their team in Melbourne.**

**FAST FACTS**
- Major Metropolitan Health Service in Victoria
- One hour drive from Melbourne CBD
- Major teaching and referral centre
- ACEM Accredited facility
- Affiliation with Monash University Medical School
- Salary packaging benefits, and long-term contracts available
- Work and live in a popular holiday destination
- Ideal location to develop your career

**THE HOSPITAL**
This 454 bedded hospital is major metropolitan health service caring for a community of 300,000 people. Their Vision is to provide exceptional health and community care. To realise this vision they need people who strive for a sense of achievement, take an interest in their individual growth, enjoy innovation and looking for ways to improve and have a passion for communicating and connecting with others.

In representing this hospital, our client expects all employees to reflect their core values: Be the Best, Be a Role Model, Be Open and Honest, Be Compassionate and Respectful and Be Collaborative.

Their Emergency Department sees over 75,000 patients per year. Their admission rate is approx. 40% with high acuity presentations. There are two sites associated with this hospital and currently over 37 consultants employed across both of those sites. This hospital has a strong education program and is accredited by ACEM for 24 months along with having an affiliation with the Monash University Medical School. This makes this role and ideal location to develop your career further in Emergency Medicine.

**THE POSITION**
The successful Emergency CMO would be expected to be competent in managing most aspects of ED presentation with mínimal FACEM support/supervision, at senior ED trainee level or above. They should also be able to supervise junior ED medical staff with clinical and disposition decisions.

Airway management and resus skills are essential for this position as well as previous ICU and anaesthetics would be desirable. This position will require you to work between both this hospitals sites which are approximately 30 minutes apart.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES, ACTIVITIES AND DUTIES**

**CLINICAL MANAGEMENT**

**Patient Assessment**
- To effectively elicit patient history, symptoms and signs relevant to a patient’s presenting problem.
- To recognise and utilise clear communication with a patients, with awareness of cultural, religious and gender differences.
- To know the differential diagnosis relevant to the presenting problems and using information gained through assessment, generate ranked problems and provisional diagnosis.
- To regularly re-evaluate the patient problem list and diagnoses.
- To identify and understand the investigations relevant to a patient’s presenting problem, using investigation results appropriately to guide patient management.
- To identify the criteria for referral and effectively access other health professionals in the patient assessment phase, seeking help at any time to meet the needs of patient safety.
- To recognise and assess acutely ill, deteriorating or dying patients. Employ principles of medical triage and provide clinical care in order of priority.
- To identify acute illness in patients and assist transfer to acute services.

**Patient Management**
- To use the principles of evidence-based practice and access relevant, current literature in formulating management decisions.
- To develop, implement and evaluate a plan of management, understanding the range of management plans available for common acute and chronic conditions including those listed in the Australian Curriculum Framework for Junior Doctors. To employ appropriate medical therapy techniques, understanding the actions, indications, contra-indications and adverse effects of medications.
- To employ sound decision making in the selecting of patients for particular procedures.
- To employ sound peri and post operative patient management
- To understand the principles of informed consent, recognising that it may need to be obtained by a senior clinician.
- To understand clinical limitations and when to seek help from senior clinicians.
- Identify ambulatory and community services available to patients and employ these resources in effective discharge planning.
- Perform appropriate pathology ordering and investigation based on evidenced based practice and be able to correctly interpret the results.
- Develop an appreciation of which patients and types of conditions require hospital admission as opposed to those who may be best managed within an outpatient, community and other ambulatory settings.
- Complete an electronic discharge summary and send to the patients GP within one day of discharge.
- Understand the role of MEARS/PETS/NETS and issues of inter-hospital patient transport.
- Refer cases to the coroner promptly.

**Clinical Skills**
- To demonstrate competency in basic life support techniques - ai