About the Job

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Where you’ll be working: General Surgery Department – Hamilton, New Zealand 

The details: Permanent, Full time - 40 hours per week (1 FTE)

  • Be part of the national transformation in Health

  • Level 1 Trauma Hospital with a broad scope of General Surgery practice with a subspecialty interest in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery

  • Join a dynamic and high functioning department

The Opportunity

A position has arisen for a General Surgeon – Oncoplastic Breast sub speciality to join our Department of General Surgery. The role is 40 routine hours per week plus contribution to the acute on-call roster.

About you

Skills and experience you’ll need to be considered for the role:

  • Knowledge and understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi

  • Vocational Registration in General Surgery and have sub-speciality training in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery

  • Confident in managing a range of conditions associated with doing on call General Surgery in a large hospital

  • Track record of excellence in communication and collaboration with colleagues both within and outside the department

  • Current APC and current membership with a medical indemnifier

About our Service

The successful candidate will join a dynamic and high functioning department providing secondary services to the Waikato population, and a number of tertiary services to the entire midland Te Manawa Taki region.

As a member of the General Surgery Team, this role has shared accountability for a population of over 900,000. The teams consists of 20 SMOS, (combination of full and part-time), 4 Fellows, 5 SET trainee Registrars and 23 RMOs.

The Benefits of living in Waikato and working for Te Whatu Ora, Waikato

Located in the heart of the mighty Waikato, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, Waikato operates over a number of sites, Hamilton City our main campus and smaller community-based hospitals across our region. Hamilton City has easy access to beaches and mountains, so if your interests range from a host of water sports, mountain biking to vineyard lunches, the area has something for you right on your doorstep. 

  • As part of our Waikato family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
  • We offer flexible and agile working opportunities alongside our Health NZ, Waikato benefits and staff discount schemes.
  • We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us. 

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply online and attach an up to date copy of your CV for consideration. 

For a discussion about this role or
other opportunities contact Alasdair today.

alasdairl@headmedical.com / 0131 357 1848

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