Medical Specialist

Location: Ballarat Central, VIC, AU, 3350

**Medical Specialist
- Obstetrician & Gynaecologist**
**Ballarat**
**Fixed term full time with a view to extend to permanent full time - 38 hours per week**

**About the role**
- The Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Grampians Health Services provides inpatient and outpatient services for the women of Ballarat, Horsham and surrounding regions. Clinics offered in this service include antenatal care, gestational diabetes, high risk pregnancy care, surgical gynaecology, colposcopy, and family planning.
- The service at Ballarat births approximately 1500 women annually and is a level 5 maternity service with a special care nursery capability caring for babies from 32 weeks’ gestation. Approximately 300 gynaecological operations are performed per year.
- Grampians Health (GH) is the largest regional health service in Victoria with a catchment of 250,000 people.
- The mission of GH is to deliver fully integrated regional health services which maximise care, compassion, individual choice and quality outcomes.
- VMO Obstetrics and Gynaecology works closely with other members of the obstetric and gynaecology team including midwifery, nursing, allied health and other obstetric and gynaecology consultants as well as junior medical staff in the provision of high standard obstetrics and gynaecology management to patients in the region.

**Clinical Duties**

Operating session as per agreed weekly timetable to cover obstetrics and gynaecology patients on the waiting list. This includes LUSCS lists (including complex caesareans)

Obstetrics: Participate in birth suite consultant cover, maternity antenatal clinic and the obstetric on call roster as rostered

Supervise and teach junior medical staff in obstetrics

Work collaboratively within the team including with midwives, general practitioners, paediatricians, anaesthetists, social workers, and any staff involved in patient care

Gynaecology: Participate in gynaecology clinic, on call consultant duties day and night as rostered including care of emergency gynaecology patients, operating suite duties as rostered. Teach and supervise junior medical staff in gynaecology

Be available exclusively for Grampians Health services when rostered as the on-call consultant. During the day, it is expected that the rostered consultant is on site in the hospital from 0730 am to 530pm. During the evening and overnight, it is expected the rostered consultant is available for phone advice and to attend the hospital within 20 minutes of being requested to. The on-call consultant must attend if requested to by junior medical staff onsite or if requested to by the midwife in charge of birth suite

Assist with effective bed management and discharge planning for patients throughout Grampians Health Services.

**Benefits**
- Grampians Health Services is the largest employer in the region and boasts many great staff benefits that include:
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- e Salary Packaging (meals and entertainment
- ) Staff health and wellbeing progra
- m Employee assistance progra
- m Free immunisation
- s Opportunities for career development, access to CME and negotiable ongoing work within Obstetrics and Gynaecolog
- y Short term accommodation assistance while settling i
- n Benefits as stipulated in the AMA EBA award including phone allowance

**How to apply**

**About Grampians Health**
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell.

Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

**Ballarat Region**

**Diversity and Inclusion**

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce.