Medical Specialist

**Medical Specialist - Geriatrician (Horsham/Stawell Campus)**
**Permanent full-time**

An exciting opportunity exists for a dynamic Consultant Geriatrician to join our Horsham and Stawell campuses to provide specialist geriatric services to our emergency department, together with our acute and subacute wards. This role includes working Monday to Friday and participating in on call and weekend roster for General Medicine at the Horsham Campus. The role will be crucial to improving geriatric healthcare across the region and support the development of the Acute Care of the Elderly program, and includes support and supervision of junior doctors including registrars and interns in our in
- and outpatient settings.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a new era in Geriatrics and help build Geriatric services across Grampians Health.

**About Grampians Health**
Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term. The service covers the wider Western Victorian region with a population of 250 000 people.

This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.

A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities.

Our communities are diverse - as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.

Grampians Health provides acute, subacute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services. This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.

**Key Responsibilities**

Will include:

- Clinical management of geriatric patients within the emergency department, acute and subacute sites as required.
- Provide support and advice to the Geriatric and General Medicine teams and broader health service to support the development of the ACE program on acute and Geriatrics in ED
- Opportunities may exist within a range of community programs such as CDAMS, gait and balance and continence service.
- Supervision and education of junior medical staff
- Providing clinical leadership of a multidisciplinary team to achieve clearly documented patient and team goals of therapy within a reasonable and transparent timeframe.

**Skills and experience**
- MBBS or equivalent degree enabling registration with AHPRA/Medical Board of Australia.
- Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians or equivalent where other qualifications are recognized by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians as equivalent or through College faculty membership.
- For an overseas
- trained appointee, postgraduate clinical training, qualifications and experience in Internal Medicine and Geriatric medicine which the College assesses as meeting its requirements for appointment to the position under Area of Need arrangements
- Recognized qualifications in Geriatric Medicine by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
- Demonstrated appropriate level experience and skills in the medical assessment and clinical management of patients

**Grampians Health Culture & Benefits**

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Professional development
- Comprehensive Orientation program
- Flexible rostering
- Free parking
- Access to discounted health club membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs

**How to apply**

Click **APPLY** or contact Dr Chris Ebersohn, VMO on 0416876607 for a confidential discussion.

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._

**Selection Criteria**
- Essential : Have you received three doses of a COVID19 vaccine? If no, please provide further detail regarding doses received, booking dates and/or other relevant information.