WNSWLHD - Post Graduate Fellow - General Medicine - Orange Health Service - Apply via eCredential

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time to 02.02.2025

Position Classification: Post Graduate Fellow (Staff Specialist)

Remuneration: $186,241 - $229,825 pa

Hours Per Week: 40 hrs pw

Location: Orange NSW

Applications Close: 5 Aug 2025 – 11:59pm

Western NSW Local Health District is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, and people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply for our advertised positions. If you require any assistance with your application or have any questions about this position, please get in touch with the contact person listed in the advertisement.

About the opportunity:

This is a 12-month position for a recent RACP fellow to establish themselves in their subspecialty practice and clinical leadership in a dynamic and supportive regional setting.  The successful applicant will get a taste of being a junior staff specialist in a supportive environment with the possibility of ongoing employment in building critical mass of the health service.

Exposure to an acute general medicine inpatient service with 3 inpatient teams, RACP-accredited medical trainees in a high-quality regional referral hospital.

Coupled with the flexibility to practice subspecialty medicine in a uniquely rural environment in an inpatient and outpatient setting. Doing this in a relaxed, dynamic rural community with large growth and professional development potential. 

This position will sit within the department of general medicine at Orange Health Service. A diverse department of 12 consultant physicians who work on a rotating on-call service of acute general medicine inpatient service.

In addition to this inpatient service, consultants offer both inpatient consultation and outpatient services in their respective disciplines which include: nephrology, respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, endocrinology, geriatrics, infectious diseases, neurology and general medicine.

What we can offer you

·           Country living with a meaningful career path

·           Flexible work practices (as appropriate to the position and negotiated with your manager)

·           Corporate wellbeing programs, including the Fitness Passport

·           Opportunities for learning and development, including in-house training with My Health Learning and the NSW Health RTO

·           Professional growth and accelerated career progression

·           Excellent culture between staff

·           Dynamic / committed young physician group

·           Wide exposure to pathologies with support from subspecialties

·           Regional trauma centre with ICU support

·           Established referral pathways to tertiary/quaternary city hospitals

·           Stable nursing population

·           Ability to practice within the candidate’s own specialty

·           Inpatient and outpatient exposures

·           Ability for outreach services

·           Opportunities for teaching and research with 2 local universities

·           Rotated Registrars from Westmead, and stable local

·           ED and ICU accredited with their respective colleges for training. Dedicated cardiology and haematology, oncology and palliative care services alongside general medicine.

·           Ability to contribute to service capacity building.

Where you’ll be working

You will be based at Orange Health Service, a part of the Western NSW Local Health District. For more information on living and working in our beautiful region, visit our website Western NSW Health Careers.

Orange is reputed as one of NSW’s premier wine and food regions. It has a mild temperate climate with warm summers and cool winters with snowfall. Many health professionals choose Orange as their home as it offers prestigious schooling, affordable housing and land, a lifestyle where you can spend more of your previous time with family and friends, greater opportunities for community involvement, along with employment growth in health care, social assistance, retail, education and training.

In Orange you can simply enjoy life without the challenges of metropolitan living and where you can maintain a great work/life balance.