Job Description
- Up to $260 per hour
- Various shift patterns
- Travel and accommodation provided and arranged
The opportunity
This is a regional town with a population of about 13,800 people, with 15% identifying as Aboriginal with about 12,000 emergency attendances each year. Seeking a senior General Inpatient doctor with primary responsibility to manage medical / psychiatric inpatients and supervision / assistance in Emergency Department. May need to interrupt ward round for high acuity ED presentations prior to 0900. Once ward round completed, (usually early-mid-afternoon), to work in ED & respond to ward calls.
This shift is normally covered by 1 doctor from Monday to Sunday for continuity of care. The senior doctor may be assisted by a ward trainee medical officer when one is available.
The location
The city is also known as cross roads of Australia because of its strategic position at the junction of th...