The Position

The Emergency Department Senior Medical Officer (ED SMO) will work with the Emergency Department Clinical Lead in the ongoing growth and development of culture of clinical excellence in the Emergency Department. The ED SMO will work in the Emergency Department supervising Junior Medical Staff and supporting the patient flow and the clinical management of unwell patients.

Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) will be established between the Emergency Department Senior Medical Officer and the Emergency Department Clinical Lead to support the following accountabilities and duties:

• Provide clinical management and treatment of patients under your care. Ensure detailed patient treatment plans are in place to support the timely management of patients
• Ensure a high standard of clinical record documentation is maintained. This includes the completion of the patient's clinical records (including medication charts / orders) to reflect clinical decisions and the keeping of appropriate databases up-to-date.
• Act as the medical officer in-charge when working clinical shifts in ED, directing the activities of other medical staff in ED and overseeing their management of patients. 
• Work with other medical staff and the multidisciplinary team to ensure provision of safe and quality care, continual improvement of services, promotion of teamwork and development of recommended hospital protocols. 
• Provide direct medical management of ED patients, including history and examination, investigation, formulating diagnosis, prescribing and administering interventions. 
• Support continuity of ED patient care through training and supervision of other ED medical staff in clinical handover and documentation activities, and exercising clinical judgement and delegated authority to admit or transfer patients to other facilities, or to discharge patients to ongoing care in the community 
• Liaise with patients, carers, family members, and other health/community services. 
• Participate equitably on the on call Roster as per with other GP’s equitably. 
• Senior support for all other areas of health service: 
• Responding to hospital ‘Code Blue’ and ‘Medical Emergency Team’ calls, and providing emergency resuscitative measures as a key member of the team. 
• Liaise with patient’s admitting medical officer and other visiting medical officers, and assess requirement for attendance by these other medical staff.

Location and Health Service

Located on the Majestic Murray River in rural Victoria approximately 3.5 hours north-west of the Melbourne airport. We employ approximately 630 staff and service a 100 km radius area with an estimated catchment area of around 35,000 people. The Hospital has a 24/7 department with access to on-call Anaesthetics; Medical, Surgical consultants. We are also developing a rural clinical school with Charles Sturt University and there will be an opportunity to deliver both undergraduate and postgraduate education. We have great Employee benefits such as Access to generous remote area salary packaging arrangements and Professional Development and other training opportunities

Essential Criteria

• FACRRM or FRACGP with higher qualifications in Emergency Medicine highly desirable (EM AST or EMD)
• Sound knowledge of current specialty practice in Emergency Medicine.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a multidisciplinary team of medical, nursing and allied health staff. 
• Demonstrated effective communication skills in dealing with patients, their relative and professional colleagues.
• Knowledge of continuous quality improvement activities relevant to practice within the clinical discipline.
• Evidence of ongoing participation and commitment to continuing medical education.

The Package

AMA Victoria - Victorian Public Health Sector – Medical Specialists – Enterprise Agreement 2018-2021- 40 hours – week – VMO Contract Individual

Approximate remuneration will be $350-$400k per a year dependant on skillset.

About Skilled Medical

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To Apply

For further information, please send your most up to date CV to Kirsty MacIsaac by selecting the 'Apply' button below, or please call a member of our permanent team in London on +44 (0) 333 444 2000 or in Australia on 1300 900 100.