Rehabilitation Medicine Career Medical Officer

**Description**

**‘Creating exceptional health care together.’**

POSITION DESCRIPTION

**Position Title**:Rehabilitation Medicine Career Medical Officer - Night

**Employment Type**:Full Time
**Classification**:CMO 1.1
**Salary**: $140,609 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:University of Canberra Hospital
**Section**:Rehabilitation, Aged & Community Services
**Closing Date: 4** August 2024

**What can we offer you**:

- City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra
- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions
- Flexible working conditions
- 11.5% Superannuation

To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services (act.gov.au)

**Applications are sought for the NIGHT CMO role commencing 3 February 2025.**:
**About the Role**:
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person-centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding regions. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Medical Staff in the Canberra Health Services enjoy excellent conditions, and our Enterprise Agreement is available at: ACTPS Medical Practitioners Enterprise Agreement 2021-2022

**The University of Canberra Hospital: Specialist Centre for Rehabilitation, Recovery and Research (UCH)** is Canberra’s first, purpose-built rehabilitation hospital.

UCH is the largest rehabilitation centre in the ACT and surrounds, with capacity for 140 inpatient beds, 75 day places and additional outpatient services. The hospital brings together rehabilitation services and specialist staff from many locations across Canberra into one purpose-built location - making it easier for people to access the services they need. UCH provides subacute services including Rehabilitation (inpatient, outpatient, day programmes), Geriatric Evaluation and Management and Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation subacute services.

**Staffing**
Six Staff specialist Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine and two Consultant Geriatricians will provide supervision for the Career Medical Officers, Registrars and Resident Medical Officers (RMOs). A team of Staff Specialist Psychiatrists (1.5FTE), one Psychiatry registrar and one RMO support the Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (AMHRU) during business hours.

There are currently 120 beds in the Rehabilitation Wards and 20 beds in an adjacent Mental Health / Psychiatry ward.

Stromlo Ward (30 beds)

Neuro-rehabilitation: stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, neurodegenerative disease, peripheral neuropathy and neuromuscular / demyelinating disorders.

Majura Ward (30 beds)

Geriatric evaluation and management, postoperative care following joint replacement or hip fracture, cognitive and functional decline, frailty

Namadgi Ward (30 beds)

General rehabilitation: Musculoskeletal impairment, multiple trauma, amputation, joint replacement, physical deconditioning and sarcopenia

Cotter Ward (30 beds)

Maintenance level care (weight bearing restrictions, post-rehabilitation care), awaiting community service provision or accommodation.

AMHRU (20 beds)
- Voluntary mental health admissions with subacute rehabilitation needs.

**DUTIES**:
Under limited direction of the Clinical Director you will:
1. Provide continuity of care overnight for patients admitted under their supervising units with the support on-site After Hours Hospital Manager (AHHM), On-call Staff Specialist, and in collaboration with JMO staff providing clinical handover (day / evening teams).

2. Provide timely and comprehensive ward-based medical care (clerkship, diagnosis, management) and escalate / communicate new and acute medical concerns as appropriate (On-call staff specialist, emergency department, surgical, medical, psychiatry).

3. Recognise and respond to acutely deteriorating patients in a subacute setting to initiate management and plan ongoing care as part of the Hospital Emergency Response Officer (HERO) team.

4. Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.

**ABOUT YOU**:
**Behavioural Capabilities**
- Excellent communications skills
- both verbal and written
- Ability to work collaboratively with senior nursing and medical staff while managing the demands of an overnight subacute hospital
- Be approachable and professional when faced with complex demands.

**Position Requirements/Qualifications**:

- An Australian MBBS medical degree or equivalent with unconditional general registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Must be in third postgraduate year or above in experie