Orthopaedic Visiting Medical Officer

**Employment Type**: Visiting Medical Officer
**Location: Goulburn**
**Position Classification**: Visiting Medical Off
**Remuneration**: - **Click here to view** **VMO remuneration
**Hours Per Week**: Up to 38 hours per week
**Requisition ID**: REQ367926

**Welcome to Southern NSW Local Health District**

**We are in the process of significant medical staff renewal, and we would like you to be part of our team.**

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.

**Where you'll be working**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and suitably qualified Orthopaedic Visiting Medical Officer to join the medical team at Goulburn Base Hospital.

**What you'll be doing**

Reporting to the Director of Medical Services, you will play an important role in providing Orthopaedic Services to patients presenting to the facility.

You will use your expert clinical and management skills to provide the highest levels of care to the patients who access your service. You will balance your clinical responsibilities with developing the service and will take a leading role in clinical governance, service design projects, delivery of a top-class education framework for other medical officers.

You will be employed by Southern NSW Local Health District. The position is primarily located at the facility applied for**.** Secondary appointments within other facilities may occur by mutual agreement.

**Wonderful Local Benefits**

There is an abundance of lifestyle benefits available for you in country New South Wales and you will be amazed at what there is offer - and it all comes without the queues and crowds of a big city. For more information visit our visit our website.

The following link contain stories of some of our NSW Health professionals who live and work in rural NSW. They share why they choose to work in rural NSW and what they love about it. **Watch our short video here.**

**Selection Criteria**:

- Eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia as a Specialist orthopaedics.
- Demonstrated recent Clinical experience in Orthopaedics.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and provide leadership of a team.
- Demonstrated effective clinical communication through the use of information technology and written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching, continuing education, and research and quality improvement.
- Availability to participate in an on-call roster and to respond on site within a reasonable time.

This is a Category ‘A’ position, please read and understand NSW Health policy directive PD2020_017. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in this policy. OASV requirements also include proof of vaccination against influenza and is compulsory for NSW Staff that enter any Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) or who work in NSW Health owned and operated RACFs.

All NSW Health workers are required to have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by 30 September 2021 and two doses by 30 November 2021 or have an approved medical contraindication certificate. You will be required to provide a record of your COVID-19 vaccination status if successful.

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