Consultant Paediatrician

**The Location**:
Only 16 kilometers from the city center this area is classified as regional. The town is lively and becoming increasingly busy attracting commuters from a wide surrounding area. Commercial and retail trade has been expanding and continuing development in commercial and residential property has given the city a lovely mix of historic charm and modern character blending seamlessly.

**The Hospital**:
This hospital open in November 2015 and is a public and private hospitals health care facility. It is Australia’s third largest private hospital operator, with 24 hospitals and facilities comprising a total of 367 beds, 307 for public patients and 60 for private patients. The hospital provides a range of medical and surgical services. The public hospital includes an emergency department, critical care unit, maternity unit, neonatology unit, paediatric unit, mental health unit, and various clinical support services. The private hospital provides specialist medical and surgical care for both inpatients and day surgery patients.

**The Position**:
This is a 0.5 FTE opportunity for a fixed term of 3 years.

You will provide leadership in general paediatrics with a focus on the acute care and the flow of patients especially between ED, Paediatric unit, PICU and discharge to home or to a local or regional hospital.

The position will participate in the child protection roster including when on call and when providing acute ward service.

The position is required teach and supervise junior doctors and to supervise RACP paediatric trainees.

**The Requirements**:
You must hold the FRACP and specialist registration with AHPRA or be eligible.