Senior Medical Officer (Community And Oral Health Services)

Metro South Health@Home, Community and Oral Health are looking for a Senior Medical Officer to join their team on temporary full time basis. The role will focus on providing general medical services that facilitate Emergency Department avoidance across COHS, including the management of QAS and General Practitioner (GP) referrals, provision of medical services and direction of clients to appropriate care pathways.

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population. 

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

• The Senior Medical Officer will be an integral member of the multi-disciplinary teams which deliver care within the community.
• Provide high quality medical services for clients of Community and Oral Health Services (COHS).
• Practice advanced general medicine/ general practice/ urgent care/ rural and remote skills in accordance with your approved credentialed scope of clinical practice (General Medicine, General Practice, Emergency Medicine or Rural and Remote Medicine).
• Optimise care for community clients who are at risk of deterioration and subsequent representation to hospital, including directing and/or admitting clients to the appropriate service such as other COHS teams, specialist outpatient departments, hospital inpatient units or hospital in the home programs.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

Eligible health workers may qualify for a Workforce Attraction Incentive payment. To find out more and see if you are eligible visit: https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives ( https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives )

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ( http://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ).

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.