Medical Specialist

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time, Part time

Organisation: Grampians Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 17347

**Medical Specialist - Rehabilitation Medicine**
**Permanent part time and full-time hours available**

An exciting opportunity exists for multiple Rehabilitation Medicine Specialists to join our expanding Rehabilitation Team within Grampians Health. The team currently operates across our acute and subacute sites, and consults to the Horsham campus on a fortnightly basis. Opportunities also exists within a range of community programs.

**About Grampians Health**
Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term.

This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.

A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities.

Our communities are diverse - as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.

Grampians Health provides acute, subacute maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services. This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.

**Qualifications**
- MBBS or equivalent degree enabling registration with AHPRA.
- Current Fellow of Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (RACP).

**Skills and Experience**
- Demonstrated appropriate level of experience and skills in the medical assessment and clinical management of patients
- Excellent capacity to evaluate medical, social, emotional, occupational and recreational aspects of function in collaboration with allied health and nursing to develop patient-centred treatment plans in a range of settings
- The ability to lead a multidisciplinary team to achieve clearly documented patient and team goals of therapy within a reasonable and transparent timeframe
- Provide specialist knowledge and expertise in the prevention, assessment, management and medical supervision of a person with a disability
- Provide clinical management of Neurological disorders (e.g., stroke, cerebral palsy, spinal injury, brain injury, spasticity and MS)
- Musculoskeletal and orthopedic conditions (e.g., fractures, joint replacements, arthritis, osteoporosis, and sporting injuries)
- Acute and chronic pain, including back, neck and nerve pain
- Amputations, occupational injury, cardiorespiratory disorders, cancers and burns

**Grampians Health Culture & Benefits**

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Discounted on-site parking
- Access to discounted health club membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs

**Ballarat Region**

Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state’s fastest growing inland city. Dubbed Australia’s most liveable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes.

**How to apply**
Click **APPLY** or contact Dr Jay Patel on 0432 399 938 or Dr Richard Bignell on 0409 232 955 for a confidential discussion.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
- Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people._