Saas Medstar Retrieval Registrar

**Job no**: 901406
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Western
**Categories**: Emergency Services and Emergency Management
- **SA Ambulance Service - MedSTAR Adelaide Airport**:

- **Salary: MDP2 - $89,253.00-$144,291.00 pa**:

- **Full Time - 6 Month Contract - C**ommencing August 2025**

**About Us**:
SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) is South Australia’s provider of emergency ambulance transport, clinical care, and patient transport services.

We are committed to ensuring South Australia has access to the best possible emergency pre-hospital medical care, non-emergency transport, and rescue and retrieval services.

SAAS MedSTAR provides expert advice, stabilisation, and retrieval of critically unwell infants and children from across South Australia. Our teams attend medical primaries thanks to our unique placement within the ambulance service.
- Our Vision_: An innovative, patient-focused, technology-enabled, evidence-driven emergency response and health care ambulance service; achieved by exceptional people.
- Our Mission_: Providing emergency response and health care ambulance services within South Australia, designed and developed around patient and community needs, enabling timely and equitable access for our patients to the most appropriate point of care.
- Our Purpose_: To ensure South Australia thrives by enabling access to emergency and non-emergency ambulance health care and alternative patient pathways while contributing to our state’s emergency preparedness and health response capability.

**Our Values**
- PATIENT FOCUSED_: We will put our patients and the safe and quality care we provide them first; in everything we do.
- TEAMWORK:_ We will work across SAAS, our health system, our partners, stakeholders and the community to achieve our goals.
- INTEGRITY AND HONESTY:_ We accept and uphold the standards and expectations of our organisation and communities.
- RESPECT AND COURTESY:_ We will always be respectful and courteous toward our patients, each other, and all those we work with.
- COMMUNITY COLLABORATION_: We value our role in the community, and we value the communities we serve.
- CHANGE READY_: We know our communities’ needs will evolve and we must adapt to meet them.
- AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP:_ We will support leadership development for our people at every level.

SA Ambulance are seeking a dynamic and skilled medical professional for the position of SAAS MedSTAR Retrieval Registrar.

**What We Offer**:

- Competitive remuneration plus salary packaging benefits up to $11,660 (including general living expenses & meal entertainment).
- Work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment with a culture of inclusion and diversity.
- Give back to the people of South Australia; play a vital role in enhancing the well-being of our community.
- We take care of you Access to a range of staff and wellness support programs.
- Opportunities for ongoing professional development.
- Access to additional allowances, dependent on eligibility.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Perform clinical duties during retrieval operations, including stabilizing and safely transporting critically injured or ill patients by road, rotary wing, or fixed-wing aircraft within South Australia and occasionally interstate or overseas.
- Maintain readiness of SAAS MedSTAR clinical equipment by participating in equipment checking procedures, demonstrating a sound understanding of medical equipment functions, troubleshooting problems, and contributing to the evaluation of new clinical equipment.
- Contribute to SAAS MedSTAR's audit and quality assurance processes, including reviewing work practices, participating in daily case review meetings, presenting case studies, developing and reviewing policies and procedures, and participating in relevant research projects.
- Provide high-level clinical advice and logístical coordination under the supervision of a Medical Retrieval Consultant, collaborating with SAAS MedSTAR Retrieval Nurse Clinical Coordinators, SAAS, RFDS, referring and receiving facilities, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Promote a positive image of SA Ambulance Service's emergency retrieval portfolio (SAAS MedSTAR) by fostering professionalism, integrity, integration, innovation, collaboration, and teamwork, and contributing to the well-being of South Australians through participation in Counter Disaster activities.

**Eligibility**:
You must hold a Bachelor of Medicine: Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or equivalent and will be registrable with the Medical Board of Australia as Medical Practitioner and satisfy mandatory registration requirements in accordance with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority (AHPRA).

**Salary Packaging with Smart**

As an employee of SA Ambulance Service, you may be eligible to salary package a range of living expenses through Smart

**Vacancy No: 901406**

**Advertised**: 05 May 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 30 May 2025 Cen. Australia