Staff Specialist/VMO

• This position qualifies for incentives under the NSW Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme, including up to $10,000 sign on incentive, and up to $5,000 each year (incentive value dependent on full-time equivalent, position and location). Find out more here - (Staff Specialist appointments only)

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Position Classification: Staff Specialist - Level 1 or Visiting Medical Officer (VMO)

Remuneration: $186, $229,825.00 per annum, pro rata or VMO Sessional Rates (IB2024_001)

Hours Per Week: 40

Requisition ID: REQ566768

Applications Close: 25 September2025

Staff Specialist/VMO – Emergency Department

Griffith Base Hospital

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Join Our Team at Griffith: Where Care Meets Community

• For Staff Specialist appointments, up to $10,000 sign on incentive, and up to $5,000 each year (incentive value dependent on full-time equivalent, position and location). Find out more here. (Staff Specialist appointments only, VMO appointments ineligible)
• Salary packaging up to $20,600 per annum tax free for living expenses Take advantage of novated leasing a new car (Staff Specialists only)
• Subsidised gym and leisure centre membership for you and your family (Staff Specialists only)
• Free confidential counselling services for you and your family (Staff Specialists only)

About us

The Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) has over 3,500 staff, 33 Public Hospitals, including 2 Base Hospitals, 8 Acute Community Hospitals and 16 Multi-Purpose Services. A progressive organisation, Murrumbidgee LHD continues to make significant achievements in improving health services and strives to provide a compassionate health care system that consistently delivers the highest standard of care to people, no matter where they live.

Communities we support are diverse, with approximately 245,000 people in communities large and small, across a geographic area of approximately 125,561 square kilometres.

Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) spans across southern New South Wales, stretching from the Snowy Mountains in the east to the plains of Hillston in the northwest and all the way along the Victorian border

Where you'll be working

The Griffith Base Hospital provides a range of specialist services (both resident and visiting) including emergency medicine, critical care, general medicine, surgery, paediatric medicine, oncology, obstetrics, respiratory medicine, renal dialysis, Hospital in the Home and rehabilitation.

Learn more about the Griffith Base Hospital here.

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Clinical Director of Emergency Department the Staff Specialist/VMO – Emergency Department will participate in the consultant on-call roster, assist with the education role of the department, and provide clinical care to patients for optimal patient outcomes.

There may also be the requirement to provide support at other sites within MLHD.

Need more information?

1) Click here for the Position Description

For role related queries or questions contact Dr Sunil Adusumilli, Director - Medical Services, Griffith Base Hospital on MLHD-Griffith-

Apply via eCredential 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 Specialist registration with the Medical Board of Australia in Emergency Medicine

• Demonstrated recent clinical experience in Emergency Medicine at the role delineation of the service.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and provide leadership of a team.

• Demonstrated effective clinical communication through the use of information technology and written, verbal and interpersonal skills.

• 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.