Mlhd - Vmo - Dermatology - Wagga Wagga Base

**Employment Type**: Visiting Medical Officer
**Position Classification**: Sessional Visiting Medical Officer
**Requisition ID**: REQ525324
**Applications Close**: 17 November 2024

**ARE YOU READY FOR A NEW OPPORTUNITY OR EAGER TO ADVANCE YOUR CAREER?**

**INVITING EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST**

**DERMATOLOGIST**

As a Visiting Medical Officer (VMO) Dermatologist, you will deliver modern comprehensive specialist services in Dermatology to ensure optimal patient outcomes, while also supporting training for clinicians across multiple disciplines to promote quality education and safe clinical practice.

Wagga Wagga is the largest inland city in NSW and hosts the region’s largest private hospital, Calvary Riverina Hospital, alongside the new 325 bed Wagga Wagga Base Hospital, a major regional referral hospital. Located centrally between Sydney and Melbourne, it offers a convenient 1 hour flight or a short drive to access almost 11 million people across Australia. Canberra is just a 2.5 hour drive.

Our dedicated team of 130 Medical Specialists provide care to a catchment population of 300,000 and we are eager to recruit an additional Dermatologist to meet growing demand.

Opportunities are available in both public and private hospitals, consulting rooms, and academic appointments at our two clinical schools, the University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Rural Clinical School.

Wagga features excellent public and private schools, Charles Sturt University, I-MED Radiology, the Riverina Cancer Care Centre, quality childcare facilities, theatres which attract local, metropolitan and international artists, fabulous restaurants and cafes, the Riverside Precinct, wonderful sporting facilities - including indoor aquatic centre - and a variety of walking and riding tracks, with nearby snowfields.

Our 130 medical specialists cover a wide range of specialty areas, including Anaesthetics, Obstetrics/Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Paediatrics, Paediatric Surgery, Pain Management, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Medical Oncology, Nephrology, Neurology, Respiratory, Psychiatry, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, ENT Surgery, General and Bariatric Surgery, Orthopaedics, Hand/Wrist/Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Dermatology, Urology and Vascular.

Learn more about this role, review the position description and the essential criteria here.

A National Police Check will be conducted, NSW Health does not require or accept the Fit2Work Badge offered as an option in eCredential
Applications via agencies will not be accepted.
- MLHD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal People and people from racial, ethnic or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability._

Selection Criteria
- Holds registration with the Medical Board of Australia as a Specialist Dermatologist, and/or overseas trained specialist pathways as recognised by the Australasian College of Dermatologists.
- Demonstrated effective clinical communication through the use of information technology and written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated significant experience in the relevant specialty.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and provide leadership of a team.
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching, continuing education, research and quality improvement.
- Availability to participate in an on-call roster and to respond on site within a reasonable time.
- Demonstrated commitment to behaviours which align to the NSW Health CORE values and MLHD Values, goals and strategies.