Opportunity
Are you a dynamic Consultant in Geriatric Medicine seeking a new professional challenge and a warmer climate? Queensland & the city of Bundaberg could be the area for you!
Key points of the role
- Fantastic lifestyle in subtropical Queensland.
- Competitive remuneration package up to AUD$500,000 depending on experience.
- Additional overtime & on-call allowances
- Coastal living with islands, waterways and beaches, as well as local national parks and The Great Barrier Reef on your doorstep.
- Excellent range of affordable housing – live in a house on the beach, apartment in the marina or on a farm in the hinterlands.
- Over 60 education facilities including public and private schools, special education, Wide Bay Institute of TAFE, and the Central Queensland University campus.
- First-class and well-resourced health service.
- Regular daily flights to Brisbane and Sydney.
Requirements to apply
Applicants should be registered (or eligible for registration) as a specialist with the Medical Board of Australia and be a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) or equivalent as an overseas trained specialist who has completed their training in either the UK, Ireland, Canada, USA or New Zealand
The Position
Working as a Geriatric Medicine Specialist you'll provide high-quality, expert clinical services, as part of the Bundaberg Hospital Geriatric and Rehabilitation Services
Duties include:
- Assume professional responsibility for high-quality direct and indirect clinical care for geriatric/rehabilitation patients including inpatients, outpatients and consultations
- Contribute to managing conditions such as delirium management, cognitive assessment, management of behavioural issues and others as required.
- Establish and manage a virtual ward with limited number of patients when needed.
- Provide clinical leadership in the multidisciplinary environment
- Provide expert clinical services including patient assessments, diagnostic workup, medical and procedural treatments within a defined and credentialed scope of practice
- Contribute to comprehensive patient care, by participation in case planning, which includes appropriate pre-admission planning, inpatient care, discharge planning, and outpatient care
- Champion patient and carer engagement regarding assessment, outcomes, and treatment options, including seeking appropriate consent, to ensure best possible clinical outcomes
- Facilitate family meetings with the multidisciplinary team when appropriate • Lead regular multidisciplinary patient review meetings, to plan safe and effective rehabilitation and discharge pathways, managing length of stay within divisional and state benchmarks
- Provide clinical supervision of patient care by registrars, principal house officers, resident medical officers and interns
- Supervise, assess, and teach junior doctors who are Australian Medical Council’s Workplace-based Assessment candidates
- Ensure efficient, effective communication with patient, family and carers, hospital colleagues and the patients’ other health care providers, ensuring continuity of care
The Hospital
The Bundaberg Hospital is a 158 bed acute health care facility providing services such as 24 hour emergency department, theatre & anaesthetics, breast screening, general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, intensive care/coronary care, pathology, paediatrics, renal services, specialist outpatients, orthopaedics, rehabilitation, palliative care, medical imaging and the Community Hospital Interface Program (CHIP). Specialist services include gastroenterology, radiology, respiratory, rheumatology, oncology, paediatric respiratory, genetics and urology.
The Location
The Coral Coast region of Queensland is a 4-hour drive north of Brisbane and its regional centre, Bundaberg, is centred on the picturesque Burnett River. The area is nestled below the Southern Great Barrier Reef and represents an incredible place to lead the life you always wanted to have. It really does provide a platform to enjoy a laid back, easy going subtropical coastal lifestyle that only Queensland can offer. Just 15 minutes drive from the city are the pristine shores of Coral Coast. Here you can fish, dive, whale and dolphin spot, snorkel the Lady Musgrave and Lady Elliot coral cays or experience the turtle-nesting phenomenon at the Mon Repos Turtle Rookery.
What Head Medical can do for you
Arranging a position in Australia is very exciting, but we understand that it can also be daunting and time-consuming. We’re the UK’s specialist in international medical recruitment and we’ve helped many Doctors relocate since we first started out in 2008 (you can read what people have said about working with us on our testimonials page). We know it’s important to balance career opportunities with lifestyle and we’ll talk through your plans and will get to know you to make sure we find the right role in the right location. Once we have secured a job for you, we’ll manage the Medical Registration and Visa application process, and support you (and your family) with the relocation itself