General Practice Procedural Trainee - Anesthetics - Bega

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time
Position Classification: Senior Registrar
Remuneration: $156,494 per annum + Allowance
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ464934
Closing Date: 07 Feb 2024
We welcome you to come and join our friendly, committed and proud team at Southern NSWLHD
Southern NSW Local Health District covers a large area of the Southern half of NSW. Surrounding the ACT on three sides and all the way down to the Victorian border, it extends from the pristine beaches of the NSW South Coast, the farmlands of the Southern Tablelands, across the picturesque Great Dividing Range and the spectacular Snowy Mountains. We have 18 facilities and our hospitals take care of more than 200,000 people. As we are a major local employer, our staff are a part of our local communities.
Southern NSWLHD comprises of 2 Networks - Inlands centred around Goulburn, Monaro, Queanbeyan and Cooma, AND Coastal centered around Bega, Batemans Bay and Moruya in the far south-east corner of NSW.
About the Role
Opportunity available to complete advanced skilled training as a fellowed General Practitioner with competitive rates of remuneration for the duration of the training. We can offer training to acquire skills as a rural generalist to be utilised in rural NSW.
What you'll be doing
Provision of a consistent generalist medical service to patients of Southern NSW Local Health District, coordination of clinical management of patients consistent with the plans of the Admitting Medical Officer and improvement in the continuity of care within Southern NSW Local Health District and between the hospital and community.
This program is available to all Fellowed General Practitioners wanting to acquire or maintain procedural skills for use in rural NSW. It is recognised that General Practitioners undertaking procedural training are most likely to have established practices therefore training may be flexible to allow continuation of part time work in the practice. The procedural training specialty should be appropriate to the service needs of the rural community in which they intend to practice. Recruitment will be focused on GPs proposing to take up rural practice who are residing in or are prepared to reside and practice as a General Practitioner in rural NSW.
The General Practice Procedural Trainee will be engaged as a Senior Registrar under the Public Hospital Medical Officers (State) Award. The Trainees will receive an allowance to increase total remuneration to the level of Staff Specialist Level 1, Year 5 as per the Staff Specialists (State) Award, in line with Award increases.
Selection Criteria: * MBBS or Equivalent and currently registered with the Medical Board of Australia with at least three years post- graduate experience and appropriate training and experience to undertake AST.

• Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners and / or Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise a moderate degree of professional independence within a supervised complex clinical environment utilising excellent skills, judgement, and expertise.
• Demonstrated skills in and commitment to improvements in clinical care, patient safety and risk management processes, including the ability to work in multidisciplinary teams to achieve change.
• High level interpersonal communication and team skills, and a sensitive approach to communication with patients, carers, other professionals, and the public.
• Demonstrated experience and well developed skills in working within health care organisations and the outside community, including capacity to use electronic communications (e.g. electronic records) effectively.
• Evidence of participation in continuing professional development and commitment to the broader service objectives of the public health system, including the effective utilisation of resources, and participation in activities beyond direct patient care.
• Demonstrated commitment to practicing medicine and advanced skill in a regional or rural setting in New South Wales.

This is a Category ‘A’ position, please read and understand NSW Health policy directive .
All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
This position requires a Working with Children Check (WWCC) issued by the Office of the Children’s Guardian. For more information on how to apply for the clearance, please visit the Office of the Children’s Guardian Website
To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
At Southern NSW Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
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For role related queries or questions contact Elizabeth Mullins on Elizabeth.Mullins@health.nsw.gov.au