Visiting Medical Officer

**Title**:Visiting Medical Officer**:

- Location: Eastern Health, VIC, AU, 3128 Box Hill, VIC, AU, 3128- Job Posting Date: 3 Dec 2024Do you work for Eastern Health currently? If so, please log in to Eastern Health Careers Employee Login using your network login details to see the full range of jobs available to you

**Emergency Physician**
- 16.12.2024-14.09.2025 - Parental Leave | Experience work-life balance
- Box Hill Hospital Emergency Department
- Excellent entitlements | Versatile patient loads | Work autonomously

**Eastern Health**
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.
Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.

**About the role**

Box Hill Hospital Emergency Department is a mixed Adult and Paediatric ED with a wide variety of case complexity and acuity of patient presentations. It is the major referral hospital within Eastern Health with most specialty services on site.

**We are looking for enthusiastic emergency specialists who will**:

- Contribute actively to provision of clinical care, supervision, and departmental clinical oversight to ensure delivery of high quality, efficient and safe patient care at all times.
- Actively contribute to collaborative work, departmental cohesion and activities that foster a supportive, fulfilling environment for all staff within the emergency department.

**MAJOR DUTIES AND/OR RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Provision of Clinical Services**
- Ensure provision of timely high quality medical care to Emergency Department (ED) patients
- Manage critical cases in the ED
- Review existing practices and promote change either based on evidence or if other change is required
- Maintain professional medical ethics
- Ensure the maintenance of adequate clinical records
- Ensure documentation of significant patient management decisions
- Minimise inappropriate disposition, unexpected representations, missed major diagnosis and medication errors
- When rostered on-call, provide an immediate telephone response to provide advice and/ or to return to the hospital as soon as possible if this is clinically required, and
- When rostered on-call, return for inter-hospital transfers of critically ill patients in the department if required
- Respond to calls for assistance from outside ED when required, and when care of ED patients will not be significantly compromised.
- Provide leadership and clinical care to the Short Stay Unit as rostered

**Communication with customer and peer groups**
- Ensure effective communication with and be receptive to patient, relative, user and peer groups;
- Actively support multi-disciplinary teamwork;
- Participate in ED decision making processes through Departmental consultative mechanisms;
- Provide advice to and liaise with staff from other units as required;
- Ensure that patients/families are given adequate information upon which to base treatment decisions;
- Develop a strong patient focus in the delivery of emergency care;
- Minimise complaints arising from lack of, or inappropriate communication;
- Ensure patients discharged from Emergency Department have documentation of their visit for LMO follow up; and
- Maintain professional etiquette.

**Quality and Review**
- Participate in the Department’s quality program, including participation in audit activities, analysis of relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) and clinical indicators;
- Attend Unit meetings where necessary;
- Develop and implement clinical pathways where appropriate;
- Assist in developing protocols and guidelines where required;
- Assist in resolving patient and relative complaints;
- Notify the Director of Emergency Services of any sentinel event or serious adverse incident within the Department; use the accepted reporting framework and assist as necessary in any review process
- Supervision, Support & Education
- Ensure that all Registrars, HMOs and Nursing Staff are supported and adequately supervised in the provision of clinical services; and
- Provide clinical and other support by active listening, constructive criticism, example and guidance and workplace training.
- Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate education.
- Achievement of professional training and development needs
- Progress in professional training and development through self-directed learning, attendance at and participation in education programs and compliance with ACEM CPD requirements;
- Attain and maintain procedural skills;
- Attend departmental education sessions;
- Critically read appropriate journal publications;
- Develop a strategic plan for personal ongoing postgraduate education;
- Become familiar with the policies and procedures of the institution;
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