Consultant Paediatrician

2 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia CC Medical Full time

**JOB DETAILS**:
**The Role**:
If you are looking for the next career challenge and the opportunity to demonstrate your clinical skills and expertise in a regional setting, then this is the role for you. You will be financially rewarded, offering a salary package up to **$638,873**

For an enthusiastic Consultant Paediatrician, the position offers a unique opportunity to influence the further development and expansion of paediatric services within the region, while also managing diverse and sometimes quite complex paediatric conditions rarely seen in metropolitan centres.

This leadership position offers a rich clinical environment embracing general paediatric medicine, community paediatrics as well as level 4 neonatology.

This leadership position offers a rich clinical environment embracing general paediatric medicine, community paediatrics as well as level 4 neonatology. The region has a population of 32,000 with 23% under 14 years of age and 15% identifying as indigenous Australians, with a substantial focus in health care delivery for this latter group.

Some of the paediatric healthcare provision is provided to the wider region via telehealth and outreach clinics to towns and indigenous communities. The hospital is affiliated with the University Medical School as a teaching hospital and is also accredited with the RACP for Advanced Registrar Training in General and Rural Paediatrics with Perinatal component, and for Core Clinical Training and AST training in Paediatrics with ACRRM and the Queensland Rural Generalist Pathway.

The Paediatric service at the Hospital is staffed by a Director of Paediatrics and two Senior Medical Officers/Staff Specialists Paediatrics. The work involves public clinics as well as a 24/7 roster to attend and care for Emergency Department presentations and inpatients in the 10 bed children’s wards, the 3 bed Level 4 nursery birth related emergencies. Most referrals for admission arise from acute presentations to the Emergency Department.

An attractive remuneration package exists to appropriately compensate for the workload and the location. Both the organisation and its Executive are highly supportive of the paediatric team which has a high profile within the community.
- Ability to function in a multidisciplinary team and to provide leadership within the team.
- Experience in education and training of medical staff and/or medical students.
- High level of communication skills in clinical practice and corporate functions.
- Commitment to improving standards and quality of health care and patient safety within the hospital and community.
- Demonstrated ability to organise work and work without supervision.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain up to date knowledge and skills.

**The Hospital**:
The Hospital and Health Service covers an area of over 300,000 square kilometres and services the rural and remote communities, it has developed into the major referral hospital for the region, with smaller satellite hospitals. It offers primary, secondary and community health services in addition to specialist services such as anaesthetics, paediatrics, psychiatry, surgery, and obstetrics & gynaecology. It also hosts a range of clinics in specialty and sub-specialty services.
- You will experience working in a Hospital Service that has undergone a huge redevelopment**Location**:
Affectionately known as the 'oasis of the outback', it is a gleaming mirage on the horizon for travellers from all directions. A melting pot of culture and industry, home to the world's third largest rodeo.
- It's grown from strength to strength over the years, it has ample places to fish, camp or relax and enjoy an outback sunset. The rugged terrain is a four-wheel-driver's haven, and visitors can explore the region just as the pioneers of the region did many years ago.
- Other attractions are the School of the Air, which provides an education to students on remote properties as far as 1000 kilometres away via satellite internet. It is also home to one of Queensland's largest Royal Flying Doctors bases.**Skills/Qualifications**:

- Mandatory qualifications/Professional registration/Other requirements
- An MBBS or equivalent to enable registration with the Medical Board of Australia, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority (AHPRA) is mandatory.
- FRACP (Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians) or equivalent.
- Registration as a Specialist Paediatrician, or other relevant speciality, with the Medical Board of Australia (AHPRA).

**THE BENEFITS**:

- Competitive pro rata remuneration package based on full-time equivalent value up **to $638,873 p.a**. comprising:

- Accommodation - Rent free
- 5 weeks Annual Recreational Leave accumulation with 17.5% loading when taken
- Generous employer contribution to superannuation of 12.75%
- Attraction and retention incentive allowance of 50% base annual salary
- Regional and rural attraction allowance of 15% base annual salary
- Motor veh



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