Rehabilitation Medicine Srmo

**Description**

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

**Position Title**:**Rehabilitation Medicine Senior Resident Medical officer

**Employment Type**:Full Time
**Classification**:**SRMO
**Salary**: $99,996 - $122,359 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:University of Canberra Hospital
**Section**:Rehabilitation, Aged & Community Services
**Closing Date**:17 April 2025

**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

**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. 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:

- Provide daily management of patients admitted under their supervising unit with the support of registrars and senior specialist staff - clerkship (admission, discharge, ward round) and manage routine ward tasks with indirect supervision of Staff Specialist
- Provide support to other junior medical officers and members of a multi-disciplinary team on each ward.
- Provide supervision of junior medical staff and ANU medical students, performing their duties within the units.
- Participate in an after hours roster including evenings, weekends, nights and an on-call roster.
- Participate in the HERO (Hospital Emergency Response Officer) team response to the deteriorating patient.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.

**About you**:
**Behavioural Capabilities**
- Good communications skills
- both verbal and written
- Be able to work with a multidisciplinary team
- Be approachable and professional when faced with complex demands.

**Position Requirements/Qualifications**:

- Where required be registered under the Working for Vulnerable People Act.
- An Australian MBBS medical degree or equivalent.
- Hold general medical registration with the Medical Board of Australia (registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a medical practitioner).
- At the time of commencement of employment, must be in third postgraduate year or above in experience level, and have sufficient e