Wnswlhd - Staff Specialist/visiting Medical Officer - Emergency Facem - Bathurst. Apply Via Ecredential

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time / Sessional
**Position Classification**: Staff Specialist / Visiting Medical Officer
**Remuneration**: $186,241 - $229,825 p.a. / As per VMO Sessional Determination

**Hours Per Week**: 40 hours pw / As per roster
**Location**:Bathurst | NSW Government**

**Applications Close**: 13 April 2025 - 11.59pm

**About the opportunity**

Join an Emergency Department with over 26,000 presentations annually and with a team of enthusiastic Emergency Medicine Specialists, GP VMOs and nursing staff serving a diverse and rapidly growing rural population.

In a regional area, with fewer sub-specialists you will receive the opportunity to manage a wider range of emergency presentation cases. This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills and increase your proficiency, adaptability, and confidence in practice areas where you might not otherwise gain this experience. You will be well supported from our collegiate network of over 100 specialist Doctors in our District who are digitally networked using the latest telehealth technology.

Your roster will include overnight and on call and you have the opportunity to mentor and supervise junior medical staff and participate in teaching and training for undergraduates and contribute to the education of other staff is available in this position.

Research and innovation is a key driver of our service and you will contribute to the department's research initiatives through contributing data, participating in clinical trials, or sharing studies collegially and collaboratively with other members of the department and the District.

**What we can offer you**
- Remuneration:
o Staff Specialists (employed full time by WNSWLHD): as per NSW Staff Specialists Award 2022 Overtime and shift penalty rates apply.

o Visiting Medical Officers will be offered a sessional contract under the Public Hospitals (Visiting Medical Officers - Sessional Contracts) Determination 2014.
- Up to $10K relocation expenses
- Fully furnished accommodation at no cost for up to three months
- Pre-tax salary packaging: (book appt to discuss)

o Up to $9K for living expenses

o Up to $2650 for meals & entertainment.

o Stamp duty/legal costs of sale/purchase of house
- Novated lease vehicles
- Training education and study leave entitlement of 25 days (full time employees) and up to $37,000 a year in education funding.

**Where you'll be working**

This role is based at Bathurst Health Service, a part of the Western NSW Local Health District. The facility is a Level 4, 120 bed acute hospital that services a rapidly growing catchment population and is about to undergo a $200M redevelopment to bring new and expanded services into the region.

Bathurst Hospital staff, clinicians and the Western NSW Local Health District have provided valuable input to the project team which has helped inform the planning and design and will continue to provide input as the facility is built and refurbished. This is a great opportunity to be involved at the ground level in the redevelopment and service design of this project.

Bathurst provides allied health, ambulatory care, coronary care, emergency medicine (26,000 presentations a year), intensive care, general medicine, mental health drug & alcohol, obstetrics & gynaecology, oncology, paediatrics, pathology, radiology, rehabilitation and surgery services. The service also has active hospital in the home and primary community health services to the surrounding townships.

Bathurst Health Service has a strong partnership with the University of Western Sydney and Charles Sturt University, conducting research and providing training opportunities for medical students. The facility has a strong partnerships with several Universities, providing student clinical placements, education and patient referral opportunities.

A comfortable and scenic 2.5 hour drive from Sydney, Bathurst is Australia’s oldest inland colonial settlement and is close enough to feel accessible to the big city, but far enough away to feel relaxed & spacious. With a population of around 45, 000 people, this vibrant city has everything you need if you are looking for a place to call home.

Facilities in Bathurst include a very busy entertainment centre, regional art gallery, conservatorium, 3 museums, a cinema and a multitude of sporting facilities. A large shopping precinct, strong café scene and great local pubs and restaurants are only part of the great community infrastructure that supports the Bathurst community.

Bathurst is home to a range of public and private schools, TAFE and Charles Sturt University - Australia’s largest region university. Bathurst is also multicultural centre with communities from all over the world and an active Neighbourhood Centre that brings these communities together.

There is no shortage of things to see and do, you can explore Bathurst and surrounding villages, participate in one of the many events in the Bathurst Event Calendar, or check ou