Staff Specialist - Gastroenterologist

Northeast Health Wangaratta; Wangaratta; On-site; AUD 220,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Novated leasing

Salary packaging benefits

Job summary

Northeast Health Wangaratta is seeking a senior gastroenterologist to lead and develop its gastroenterology service in Wangaratta, Victoria. The role includes endoscopy, outpatient consultative work and inpatient gastroenterology support to shape regional care.

NHW is the major regional health service for northeast Victoria, serving about 102,000 people and performing thousands of procedures annually. Collaboration with the University of Melbourne Rural Clinical School underpins training and

Qualifications

• Registration with the Medical Board of Australia is required.
• Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) is required.
• Appropriate experience in Gastroenterology.
• FRACP holders with a regional health care interest are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Provide endoscopy, outpatient consultative and inpatient consultative gastroenterology services.
• Lead the development and delivery of the NHW gastroenterology program to benefit the regional community.

Skills

Gastroenterology

Education

FRACP Fellowship

Medical Board Registration

Job description

Wangaratta (NHW). This position will primarily provide endoscopy, outpatient consultative as well as inpatient consultative services at NHW. This is an exciting opportunity to develop and lead a Gastroenterology service and shape NHW's future service delivery of gastroenterology care to the community.

NHW is the major regional health service and specialist referral facility for Northeast Victoria. It serves a population of approximately 102,000, performs over 6,500 procedures a year and has over 19,000 inpatient episodes and 30,000 Emergency Department attendances a year and approximately 700 births per year. We have onsite radiology, pathology and blood bank service. NHW provides a wide range of acute specialist medical and surgical services, an emergency department, critical care unit (ICU, HDU, CCU), obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, specialised aged care, medical oncology services, community rehabilitation, inpatient, community, aged and psycho-geriatric mental health services.

The University of Melbourne's Rural Clinical School has a node located in Wangaratta with medical students completing their clinical studies at NHW and additional medical students rotate from Melbourne teaching hospitals.

Key Selection Criteria

• Registration with the Medical Board of Australia or equivalent
• Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• Appropriate experience in Gastroenterology.
• Applicants who have recently attained their FRACP and have a demonstrated interest in regional health care are encouraged to apply.

Competitive remuneration, novated leasing and full salary packaging benefits Available. If you have relocated permanently you may also be able to substantially increase your take-home pay by salary packaging some or all of your relocation costs.

Our Region

• Wangaratta has a population of approximately 30,000 and our catchment serves a community of around 100 000 throughout the northeast.
• An easy 2 hours drive on the Hume freeway from Melbourne and less than an hour to Albury airport with direct flights to most of the large Australian cities.
• We have over 11 schools including private Catholic and Anglican schooling options for pre-year 12.
• Our region is a popular destination year-round. It boasts multiple national parks, picturesque small towns, award winning restaurants, wineries and breweries.
• Whether you want to hike, mountain bike and ski in the mountains, paddle the rivers or cruise on the rail trails there is something for everyone in the northeast.