Visiting Medical Officer

**Employment Type**:Visiting Medical Officer
**Position Classification**:General Practice - Non-Procedural
**Requisition ID**: REQ550119
**Applications Close**:02 March 2025

**VMO - General Practice - Non-Procedural - Drug & Alcohol (Part Time)**

**Join Our Mental Health Drug & Alcohol Team**

**_ Be part of the vibrant and professional team, improving and enriching the health of our communities in millions of ways every day._**

**About us**

The Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) has over 3,500 staff, 33 Public Hospitals, including 2 Base Hospitals, 8 Acute Community Hospitals and 16 Multi-Purpose Services. A progressive organisation, Murrumbidgee LHD continues to make significant achievements in improving health services and strives to provide a compassionate health care system that consistently delivers the highest standard of care to people, no matter where they live.

Communities we support are diverse, with approximately 245,000 people in communities large and small, across a geographic area of approximately 125,561 square kilometres. Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) spans across southern New South Wales, stretching from the Snowy Mountains in the east to the plains of Hillston in the northwest and all the way along the Victorian border

**Where you'll be working**

Murrumbidgee LHD specialist drug and alcohol services offers safe and non-judgmental support, advice and treatment.

Drug and alcohol clinicians are based in each of our community mental health, drug and alcohol services. They provide outpatient care, including medication, counselling and support to assist people to change their problematic drug and alcohol use and to get their lives back on track

Learn more about the Drug and Alcohol services in Murrumbidgee LHD by clicking here.

**What you'll be doing**

The VMO GP Drug and Alcohol will provide outpatient drug and alcohol clinics with a focus on medical care within the Opioid Dependence Treatment under the NSW Opioid Treatment Program. The care you provide as part of the drug and alcohol specialist services will be professional, contemporary and comprehensive, incorporating safe, effective, evidenced based and person-centred care.

Requirements of the role include:

- Consultative, diagnostic, outpatient, face to face and potentially telehealth services as determined and required by MLHD
- Attendance and availability during rostered work hours, including clinical handover, clinical supervision, and for emergency and routine care as determined and required by MLHD
- The provision of support to clinicians across multiple disciplines to achieve safe clinical practice.
- Be aware of the general health care needs for the people you see and work with them to access care for these needs.

**For further information**
- A National Police Check will be conducted, NSW Health does not require or accept the Fit2Work Badge offered as an option in eCredential
- Applications via agencies will not be accepted.
- MLHD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal People and people from racial, ethnic or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability._

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**Selection Criteria**
- A primary medical degree registrable with AHPRA and Fellowship of the RACGP/ACRRM.
- Minimum three (3) years post graduate clinical experience. Previous experience in General Practice or Rural Medicine would be an advantage.
- Knowledge of contemporary clinical management and modern approaches in assessment and management of drug and alcohol issues is desirable and further training will be provided.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and provide medical leadership for the team.
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching, continuing education, research and quality improvement.
- Demonstrated commitment to behaviours which align to the NSW Health CORE values and MLHD Values, goals and strategies.