Trainee - Unaccredited Position

**Employment Type**:Temporary Full Time

**Position Classification**: Unaccredited Trainee

**Remuneration**: As per Award

**Hours Per Week**: 38 hours per week

**Location**: Bathurst NSW

**Applications Close**:20, December 2024 - 11:59pm

**Unaccredited Trainee - Orthopaedic Surgery**

**Bathurst Health Service**

This position offers twelve (12) months experience in Orthopaedic Surgery providing effective medical services to Orthopaedic patients under supervision, while developing expertise in orthopaedic practice, in a complex clinical environment. The trainee will contribute to the daily management and care of primarily orthopaedic patients at Bathurst Health Service.

Just over a two hour drive from Sydney, Bathurst is close enough to feel accessible, but far enough away to feel unique. Located in the heart of Central Western NSW, this vibrant city has everything you need if you are looking for a place to call home.

A first class Entertainment Centre, Regional Art Gallery, Indoor Aquatic Centre, 3 museums and regional sporting fields are only part of the great community infrastructure that supports the Bathurst community.

Watch our video for the JMO Experience in Western NSW Local Health District.

**What we can offer you**
- Country living with a meaningful career path
- Flexible work practices (as appropriate to the position and negotiated with your manager)
- Corporate wellbeing programs, including the Fitness Passport
- Opportunities for learning and development, including in-house training with My Health Learning and the NSW Health RTO
- Professional growth and accelerated career progression

**Where you’ll be working**

You will be based at Bathurst Health Service, a part of the Western NSW Local Health District. For more information on living and working in our beautiful region, visit our website Western NSW Health Careers.

**Essential Requirements**:

- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia in an appropriate registration category.
- At least three years' post graduate experience in public hospital service (or equivalent).
- Valid NSW Working with Children check.
- Cleared National Police check.
- Aged Care Check for Australian Government funded positions.
- To be employed by NSW Health you are required to provide evidence of vaccination to comply with the NSW Health Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases Policy, this includes any amendments made from time to time.
- You must take all reasonable care for yourself and others and comply with any reasonable instruction, policies and procedures relating to work health safety and wellbeing.

**To apply, please address the following Selection Criteria**:
1. Qualifications and experience commensurate with the Essential Requirements for the role.

2. Must have Australian experience or be eligible for Competent Authority pathway.

3. Demonstrated ability to work independently in a supervised environment and work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.

4. Effective oral, written and computer skills and demonstrated good organisational time management skills.

5. Evidence of continued professional development and commitment to self-education.

6. Ability and willingness to deliver patient care and preparedness and ability to participate in a shift and on-call roster.

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