Snswlhd - Visiting Medical Officer - General

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**Employment Type**: Full Time / Part Time / Job Share
**Location**:Yass**
**Position Classification**: Visiting Medical Officer
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**Requisition ID**: REQ508348

**Applications Close**: 8 December** 2024**

**Welcome to Southern NSW Local Health District**

At Southern NSW Local Health District (Southern) we are working to help our communities lead healthy lives. Our mission is that all people across our diverse societies have timely access to the right healthcare in the right setting to maximise their health, wellbeing and independence.

Southern covers a large area of the state, from Goulburn and Crookwell to the Victorian border, and surrounds the ACT on three sides. A total of 44 537sq kms, extending from the pristine beaches of the NSW South Coast, the farmlands of the Southern Tablelands, across the picturesque Monaro and spectacular Snowy Mountings of the Great Dividing Range.

We are home to five large Aboriginal nations - the Gundungurra, Ngambri, Ngunnawal, Ngarigo and Yuin people. Southern NSWLHD comprises of four Networks - Tablelands is centred around Goulburn, Monaro centred around Queanbeyan and Cooma, the Coastal Network located in the far south-east corner of NSW, and the Integrated Care Network.

At Southern NSW Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of

️ Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ️ background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.

**Where you'll be working**:
**Y A S S**

Yass District Hospital provides 24-hour accident and emergency and is a 12-bed hospital with 4 emergency beds and a medical imaging department. The newly developed Yass Hospital has a new emergency department, palliative care room, community health consultation rooms, and physiotherapy room.

Yass is a town in the Southern Tablelands of NSW. Situated in the beautiful Yass Valley - a thriving rural region with a great sense of community, spectacular natural scenery and a laid-back country lifestyle. Yass is a 3 hour drive from Sydney and less than 1 hour from Canberra. You can take a train from Sydney to Yass Junction, which takes around 3 hours and 40 minutes.

Adventurers will find activitiesgalore in the Yass Valley. Head to Wee Jasper Reserves for tranquil fishing and bushwalking. Follow the expedition of explorers Hume and Hovell on the Hume and Hovell Track which starts at Cooma Cottage and covers 440kms to Albury.
The heart of the acclaimed Canberra District Wine Region, the Yass Valley has great food and wine experiences. Enjoy cool climate wine tasting at the cellar doors of iconic wineries, settle into cosy country wine bar and browse gourmet food shops and farmer's markets.

**What you'll be doing**

Provide contemporary comprehensive specialist services for optimal patient outcomes.

Provide and support training to clinicians across multiple disciplines to achieve quality education and safe clinical practice

**Selection Criteria**
- Eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia as a Specialist General Practitioner or training towards
- Demonstrated recent clinical experience in Emergency Medicine
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and provide leadership of a team
- Demonstrated effective communication through the use of information technology and written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching, continuing education, and research and quality improvement.
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to all aspects of clinical governance
- Demonstrated ability to consistently display a commitment to, and compliance with, and leadership in high quality Customer Service, Workplace Diversity, Occupational Health & Safety and Industrial Democracy principles, practices and relevant legislation relating to these areas and an understanding of and commitment to the organisation's values
- Demonstrated commitment to participation in on-call rosters and providing timely on-site responses
- Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases

This is a Category ‘A’ position, please read and understand NSW Health policy directive PD2022_030

Applicants must have completed the COVID-19 vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.

Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate.

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