Career Medical Officer (Grade 1/2) - Emergency Medicine

Sydney Local Health District is one of the top performing local health districts in New South Wales. It is made up of hospitals and health services delivered in various locations in the community and also in people’s homes.

Join the the team at Canterbury Hospital to provide quality health care for the local community, while developing expertise in Emergency Medicine in a complex clinical environment.

About the Role

Canterbury Hospital is a 215-bed metropolitan acute general hospital, providing services in Emergency Medicine, General Surgery and Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care. Canterbury Hospital caters for a local population of 220,000 people. The Canterbury area is home to a culturally and linguistically diverse community. Just under half (48%) of Canterbury residents were born overseas and just under half (47%) reported Chinese, Lebanese or Greek ancestry. Many residents of the Canterbury community have arrived in Australia relatively recently. Just fewer than 67% of Canterbury residents do not speak English at home which is almost three times higher than the NSW average (22%). The predominant languages spoken are Arabic, Greek, Mandarin, Bengali, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Urdu, Italian, Indonesian, Korean and Nepali. On average, around one third (33%) of Mandarin, Korean, Cantonese and Vietnamese speakers do not speak English well or at all. The majority of humanitarian arrivals that have settled in Sydney Local Health District, have done so in the Canterbury area. Most arrived from Afghanistan, although a significant number of Burmese and Rohingyan refugees have also settled in the area. Humanitarian arrivals often have complex health problems related to either their prior limited access to healthcare and/or their individual experiences of persecution or trauma. Aboriginal people make up 1.1% of the district’s population, compared with 2.9% of the state’s population.

The primary purpose of the role is to provide clinical management on the Emergency Department (ED) floor, and to support the Medical Officer in Charge (MOIC) of the whole hospital after hours and overnight, allocating team roles, supervising junior medical staff and managing ED flow with optimal efficiency. 
 
The Career Medical Officer in Emergency Medicine will be capable of working autonomously in performing and supervising ED clinical duties, and working to ensure that patients receive optimal care, both in the ED and the greater hospital as required. 
 
For more information, please the Position Description.

Ideal Candidate

• Current medical practitioner, registered, or eligible for registration, with AHPRA, with at least three years of full-time clinical experience in an ED and/or in hospital-based practice.
• Experience in management of a busy ED clinical floor, including being responsible for clinical decisions and departmental flow.
• Ability to work cooperatively with other staff and practitioners within a multidisciplinary health care team.