Career Medical Officer - Emergency Department

• Salary Classification: Career Medical Officer Grade 1 & 2, Year 1-4.
• Casual positions available

The Role:

You will be responsible for the provision of safe, effective and appropriate patient centred medical care in a team-based emergency department. At Calvary Mater Newcastle (CMN), the main point of difference for our emergency department is specialised focus on general medicine, oncology and haematology, palliative care, psychiatric and clinical toxicology presentations.

If you are seeking a position as a CMO, working in a team who understands the complexity of balancing work and personal priorities, then this is the position for you. We are open to providing you with flexibility around your working hours, whether it is part time, weekends only, short shifts or school hours. We are also flexible to focus on your professional areas of interest such as seeing main floor patients and resuscitation level patients or only seeing the ambulatory care/fast track type patient or working primarily in our short stay ward managing short term emergency department admitted patients and discharge planning. There is room to expand on some non-clinical projects for the right candidate.

Duties:

• Delivers all care within scope of practice as defined by practice setting and competence.
• Communicate effectively with patients, carers and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Ensure that patients are discharged to a safe environment
• Ensure that appropriate follow up arrangements are in place for patients being discharged home.
• Coordinate and oversee deployment of resources within the department in conjunction with the nurse- in-charge to ensure that patients are seen within a timely manner

For further information please contact Dr Ingrid Berling, Director of Emergency Medicine on (02) 4014 3740 or ingrid.berling@calvarymater.org.au to find out more about the type of CMO that we are looking for and what we can offer you as a team member.

Working with CMN

We are an Affiliated Health Organisation providing services to both public and private patients primarily from the Hunter New England area. Our health services and clinics including Coronary Care and Cardiology, Surgery, Intensive Care, General Medicine, Research and 24/7 Emergency Care.

In addition to an uplifting work environment, our people benefit from:

• Work-life balance
• On-site parking
• Clinical Scholarships and Tertiary Training opportunities
• Up to $15,900 in salary packaging options plus extra savings with meal entertainment packaging and novated car leasing
• Discounted health insurance and technology products
• Calvary Healthy Body and Mind Portal – Live classes, recipes, challenges
• Fitness Passport and Employee Assistance Program
• Leave entitlement balances transfer for NSW Health employees
• Gender neutral parental leave

Join our team today!

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Pre-employment conditions:

• Be an Australian citizen, permanent resident or hold a visa with unlimited rights to work in Australia.
• Successfully complete pre-employment checks.  Checks include: reference checks, work rights, criminal history check and WWCC.
• Provide evidence of immunisation as required for the role.