Jmo Supervised Practice

**Employment Type**: Temporary Various for contract 3rd February 2025 to 1st February 2026
**Remuneration**: $76,009.00
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: CAM24030

An exciting opportunity exists to join the Medical Officers at Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District.

**Where you'll be working**

Wollongong Hospital is the Illawarra and Shoalhaven’s major referral and teaching hospital and has a bed base of more than 500. The campus, which incorporates the Illawarra Regional Cancer Care Centre, provides a comprehensive range of inpatient, outpatient and community-based services.

Wollongong is located an hour’s drive south of Sydney on a narrow coastal strip bordered by the Royal National Park to the north, Lake Illawarra to the south, the Tasman Sea to the east and the Illawarra Escarpment to the west. Learn more about the lifestyle benefits of living and working in Wollongong.

The Bulli Aged Care Centre of Excellence opened in August 2020 and is an innovative collaboration between ISLHD and the Illawarra Retirement Trust. The new $50.4 million Centre of Excellence has been specifically tailored to meet the requirements of the local population. The project included the construction of a new facility opposite the existing Bulli Hospital, to transform the site into a centre of excellence focussed on geriatric medicine. Learn more about the lifestyle benefits of living and working in Bulli.

Bulli Hospital works closely with the Aged Care Specialist team at Wollongong Hospital to ensure a safe and timely transfer of patients who have completed an acute episode of care and require additional assessment, Sub-Acute medical management and planning for ongoing care needs. Bulli Hospital also provides outpatient Geriatric Services via the Geriatric Outpatient Therapy unit. This service is supported by a Geriatrician, Advanced Trainee in Aged Care, specialist nursing staff and Allied Health. The outpatient unit houses a therapy area and assessment area for patient appointments.

Shoalhaven Hospital is a busy rural hospital which employs over 1,000 staff and is the main acute care hospital for the Shoalhaven region, providing emergency care, medical, surgical and orthopaedic services. Shoalhaven Hospital has an Intensive Care Unit focusing on high dependency and coronary patients, Children’s Ward and Maternity Unit as well as a purpose-built regional Cancer Care Centre and sub-acute Mental Health Unit.

Milton Ulladulla Hospital is situated in the heart of the historic village of Milton. Along with its art galleries, boutique stores and fine-dining restaurants, the village is surrounded by the rural pastures of working dairy farms and overlooked by the iconic Pigeon House Mountain in the Budawang ranges. You will be working within just a few kilometres of some of the world’s most beautiful white sand beaches, coastal lakes, inlets and rivers. For more information on the hospital, click here.

Shellharbour Hospital is a 197 bed, acute facility providing a comprehensive range of inpatient, outpatient and community-based services. The inpatient services include aged care, medical, surgical, mental health and acute medical assessment inpatient beds, plus a day surgery unit. The hospital also provides emergency services, elective surgical services, general medical, antenatal and primary family health care, satellite renal dialysis, as well as adolescent and adult mental health services.

Shellharbour is located on the picturesque South Coast of NSW, located over an hour’s drive south of Sydney, and has a rapidly growing population. Surrounded by pristine beaches, renowned fishing/diving spots and rolling hills in the countryside, Shellharbour is rapidly growing with many family friendly attractions. Learn more about the lifestyle benefits of living and working in Shellharbour.

**What you'll be doing**

The purpose of the position is to provide effective medical services to patients, while developing expertise and skills in medical practice, in a complex clinical environment in inpatients and outpatient areas in the public health organisation.

The medical officer will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, under the supervision of senior medical officers. Responsibilities include:

- Coordinating and documenting the admission, management and discharge planning of
- patients seen in or admitted to their Unit within the Public health organisation.
- The day-to-day assessment and management of the patients in their Unit, communicating
- with them and their family the nature of their condition and its treatment.
- Communicate and co-ordinate care with the team, arranging consultation with other staff
- when appropriate

Ensuring all decisions concerning the patients are made in consultation with their immediate supervisor.
The Medical Officer will provide care to all patients according to Good Medical Practice: A Code of Conduct for Doctors in Australia and demonstrate ethical behaviours and profes