Consultant Emergency Medicine

**JOB DETAILS**:
**The Role**:
We are seeking an Emergency Medicine Consultant/Staff Specialist to join a newly refurbished Emergency Medicine department, with all modern technology, in a beautiful sunny location.

The Hospital Emergency Department has two resus bays, three high dependency bays, 20 consult rooms, a Short Stay Unit and Fast Track area with three consult rooms.

**_This coastal location is an hour and 20 minutes flight from Brisbane and two hours' drive from the spectacular landscape of the Whitsundays._***

**You will be expected to**:

- Provide expert clinical services for the department within the Clinical Services Capability Framework for the facility, and within the clinical privileges formally granted to the Staff Specialist/Senior Staff Specialist from time to time.
- Provide clinical supervision of the department and junior medical staff when rostered as the duty Senior Medical Officer.
- Actively participate in in-service training programs, supervise, and teach junior medical staff, medical students, nursing, and paramedical staff as required.
- Provide ethical decision making in the achievement of organisation goals.

**_Remuneration value up to $532,297_**
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- Varied, exciting case mix including 25% paediatrics & a significant trauma caseload.
- Regional referral and trauma centre; 50,000 presentations per annum.
- Innovative and flexile rostering.
- Opportunity to become involved in development of a new Emergency Department.
- Highly competitive remuneration with extensive support for professional development.
- Potential for involvement in the Regional Aeromedical Retrieval Service.
- There is an active and successful postgraduate education and training program.
- The Emergency Department at sees a great number of attendances per annum, (approximately 25% paediatrics) with a diverse case mix including trauma. There is an active and successful postgraduate education and training program.
- To reflect the demand for health care in the region the Hospital has been redeveloped, at a cost of $408 million with a current bed capacity of 236 beds

**The Hospital**:
Modern hospital providing trauma services, most major medical and surgical sub-speciality services.
- Support services such as Cardiac Cathlab and a 10 bed Short Stay Unit.
- A fully equipped medical library is available on site with a large collection of hard copy and online journals and textbooks.
- The hospital provides specialist services in obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatrics, thopaedics, psychiatry, urology and oncology and many other specialty areas. New services implemented in 2017 included ENT and a Step-Up Step-Down mental health service.
- The hospital is a digital hospital, equipped with leading edge technology to assist staff to provide the highest level of care and comfort to our patients. It is the first regional hospital in Queensland to have the complete integrated electronic medical record.**Location**:
It provides relaxed and comfortable rural and coastal living opportunities, only an hour flight from Brisbane and a short distance to the Whitsunday Islands and the Great Barrier Reef. The tropical climate is ideal for outdoor living with beautiful beaches and a spectacular natural environment nearby.
- Families are well serviced by a choice of high-quality schools and a wide range of sporting clubs with excellent facilities
- The region stretches from secluded islands off the coast through golden sand beaches and into lush sub-tropical rain forests.
- This is one of the fastest growing regions in Queensland, currently a population of approximately 182,000 people in the region. Only an hour's flight from Brisbane, this region boasts an enviable lifestyle and a buoyant economy with the benefits of a fast-growing coastal city. Its coastal location is complemented by its spectacular natural environment.
- This includes 31 beautiful beaches, a picturesque blue river, and a pristine rain forest hinterland. Excellent education opportunities, two universities, 3 state high schools and over 17 private schools to choose from.
- This coastal location is an hour and 20 minutes flight from Brisbane and two hours' drive from the spectacular landscape of the Whitsundays.**Benefits**:

- Remuneration value up to $532,297
- Employer superannuation contribution (up to 12.75%),
- Annual leave loading (17.5%)
- Attraction and retention incentive allowance, professional development allowance, professional development leave 3.6 weeks p.a., professional indemnity cover, plus overtime and on-call allowances.

**Skills/Qualifications**:

- High level of clinical knowledge, proficiency and skills extending across the broad range of Emergency Medicine, with an ability to work in relative isolation.
- Comprehensive and concise documentation of all clinical observations, opinions, diagnoses, other data and procedures undertaken.
- Appropriate investigations, treatment and referral of patients.
- Direct the process of assessment