Career Medical Officer, Emergency Medicine

6 months ago

Newcastle, Australia NSW Government -Hunter New England Local Health District Full time

**REQ446400**
**Career Medical Officer in Emergency Medicine**
**Maitland Hospital, Lower Hunter Valley NSW**
**Multiple permanent & temporary part time roles available**

**_We are looking for Career Medical Officers interested in long term diverse employment with Maitland Hospital Emergency Department with an ongoing commitment to training and education outside of the ACEM (Australasian College for Emergency Medicine) format ultimately to develop and support a person in becoming a respected and senior member of the Emergency Department medical Team._**

**About the role**:
The post has been structured with educational and procedural requirements; these can be individualised based on prior experience. One shift in 8 will be allocated as a non-clinical shift to allow for some of these requirements to be progressed. This shift can be utilised to attend a course, spend the day in theatres improving on airway skills, in the ED office working on an audit or planned teaching as examples. It is expected and highly supported that the SMO enrol and aim to complete the ACEM Emergency Medicine Certificate program during the initial year of employment.

Maitland Hospital Emergency Department is an urban district unit which sees approximately 150 patients /day with30% of these being Paediatric cases. We have an admission rate of 25%, including general medicine, cardiology, general surgery, orthopaedics, paediatrics, mental health and Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Maitland Hospital Emergency Department acts as the referral hospital for eight GP run rural hospitals, which have a variety of facilities available for investigating patients. An important part of this post will be to develop management skills for the safe and appropriate movement of these referrals across the Local Health District.

The post involves the participation in a 7 day a week/24hr roster across Maitland Hospital. Each clinical shift is 10hr long. After the 5th year of consecutive employment, the night shift component is removed.

**The role of the Career Medical Officer in the Emergency Department is to**:

- Provide clinical care under the direction of the supervising or on call consultant to support the effective management of patients
- Contribute to processes to improve the continuity of clinical care, coordination of services, patient handover, and discharge planning during and after hospitalisation
- Contribute to effective clinical management, transition to community care and discharge planning by: Encouraging effective handover procedures for hospital patients by establishing processes between shifts and between teams & monitoring use and function of handover systems
- Demonstrate leadership in the effective co-ordination of care of hospital patients, by facilitating communication and coordination between specialty, administrative and community services groups
- Support multidisciplinary team care by contributing to team building, mentoring and training
- Support members of care teams by providing clinical advice and encouraging co-ordination of care of hospital patients through effective and timely communication

**Why come and work with us at Maitland Hospital?**
Our hospital is designed to continue meeting the growing health service needs for Maitland and the surrounding communities of the Hunter Valley, now and into the future.

Maitland Hospital has been built to provide patients with high quality care in a modern and comfortable environment and it embraces technology and innovation, allowing staff new, improved ways to work that will deliver better health outcomes.

Maitland Hospital is located approximately 15 minutes from the Hunter Expressway, 25 minutes from John Hunter Hospital and central Newcastle and in close proximity to the New England Highway, other major link roads, an existing train station and public transport routes.

**What we can offer you**:
Hunter New England Local Health District is a great place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry we provide a range of public health services to the Hunter, New England and Lower Mid North Coast.
- Working with HNE Health gives you access to a great range of benefits:
- Sustainable Healthcare: Together towards zero
- Salary packaging options
- Fitness Passport
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non-clinical and clinical professionals

**Enjoy living and working in Maitland**
**_We are one of the fastest growing non-metropolitan regions in Australia_**
Set in an idyllic location in the Lower Hunter Valley within a picturesque riverine landscape and historic buildings. Lots of choice of affordable housing and excellent local public and private schools. Maitland is well connected by road, rail and air, is located less than two hours north of Sydney, only 30 minutes from Hunter Valley Wine Country and 30 minutes from Newcastle and its

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