AddressJob reference: 869157
Location: 5112 - ELIZABETH VALE
Job status: Long Term Contract
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin and Modbury Hospitals - Elizabeth Vale and Modbury
- Total Indicative Remuneration: $351,503 - $790,258 p.a. (pro rata) - MD2 - Temporary Part-Time, working 26.25 hours per week up to 30 June 2025
About Adelaide:
Adelaide has recently been recognised as a city that artfully combines its compact charm and world-class cuisine with picturesque nature escapes, earning a delightful nod from the Wall Street Journal as being possibly the coolest city in Australia. Ranked one of the worlds “Most Liveable Cities”, Adelaide is a culinary playground with a delicious mix of fine dining restaurants, award-winning cafes, bustling food markets and booming boutique bars. Events like the SANTOS Tour down under cycling, Adelaide Fringe and the Adelaide Cabaret Festival add extra appeal to living here.
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical (both elective and emergency), obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, mental health, oncology, geriatric medicine, palliative care and rehabilitation. Increasingly these are provided across a range of hospital, community and home-based settings.
NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.
Our work is challenging and rewarding with a broad range of services.
With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.
Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
Our Local Health Network Sites and Services:
Lyell McEwin Hospital - The major hospital in the north and north-east for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics and outpatient services.
Modbury Hospital - A general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.
Benefits of working at NALHN:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you'll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.
Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.
Strong community minded culture and values providing world-class care to South Australians.
NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.
About You:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Orthopaedics Consultant looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.
This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team at Lyell McEwin and Modbury Hospitals.
About the Role:
In this role, you will be actively involved in the teaching of trainee medical officers, interns and medical students. Furthermore, you will participate in clinical audit and quality, safety and clinical risk management activities, as well as research and continuous medical education activities.
NALHN is looking for a suitably qualified foot and ankle surgeon which presents an opportunity to develop and shape a foot and ankle service for the rapidly growing population in the north of Adelaide. The successful candidate will head up the service and in time additional sessions or appointments to the service may be able to be made. The successful candidate as an orthopaedic surgeon will also need to be part of our orthopaedic trauma service and be rostered on call. The position also provides a service to a multidisciplinary clinic for complex patients with podiatrists and endocrinologists.
The area around Lyell McEwin Hospital is rapidly developing as a northern health hub with ample opportunities to base a successful private practice in collocated rooms and to undertake surgery in the soon to be collocated Calvary private hospital or currently in Central Districts Private. Ideally the successful applicant will have completed an Australian Orthopaedic Association Fellowship in foot and ankle surgery but other equivalent qualifications will be considered. Our unit has three AOA accredited trainees and five orthopaedic service registrars who support all our services. Teaching at all levels is part of the job description and while a research interest is encouraged the role is predominantly about clinical service delivery at this point in time.
To be eligible for this position, you must hold a Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or equivalent. Appropriate Specialist Qualifications and registrable with the Medical Board of Australia as a Medical Practitioner with Specialist registration; or another qualification as defined in the SA Medical Officers Award.
The Total Indicative Remuneration figure is calculated taking into account base salary, leave loading and superannuation as well as managerial allowances, professional development or any other allowances where appropriate.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.
Check(s)
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 869157
Enquiries
Stacey Willett
Medical Management Facilitator
Phone: (08) 8182 9***
E-mail: **************@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
19 July 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
869157 - Orthopaedic Consultant - MD2 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.
Flexibility Statement
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
