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Have you ever thought of an “Outback Medical Adventure”?

• Develop areas of clinical interest to you within Anaesthesia

• Discover the financial benefits available working in rural and and remote healthcare

• FANZCA or equivalent qualification from a comparable healthcare country 

The Organisation

Mount Isa is a CSCF Level 4 Specialist Service Base Hospital with a total of 80 beds. Services include Accident and Emergency; Aged Care; Anaesthetics; Community Health; Day Surgery; Dental Care; Dietetics; Family Planning; General Medicine, General Surgery, Intensive Care, Maternity; Medical Imaging inc. CT, USS, Echo; Mental Health; Occupational Therapy; Oncology; Outpatients; Paediatrics; Palliative Care; Pathology; Pharmacy; Physiotherapy; Podiatry; Renal Unit; Sexual Health; Social Work; Speech Therapy; Multiple additional specialist services are provided on an outreach basis from Townsville, Cairns and Brisbane.

Mount Isa Hospital is the referral hospital for the North West region, with remote country/community hospitals at Doomadgee, Normanton, Mornington Island, Cloncurry, Julia Creek and health centres at Dajarra, Camooweal, Karumba and Burketown.

Mount Isa Hospital is the primary facility for the treatment of trauma caused by mining and farming accidents as well as road accidents. Medical staff are exposed to a variety of medical, surgical, gynaecological and paediatric cases.

Mount Isa also has a Royal Flying Doctor Service base providing rural retrievals, transfers and numerous primary health care activities.

Mount Isa Hospital underwent a redevelopment which included a new Emergency Department, new Outpatients Department, Mental Health (Outpatient) Unit, Cancer Care Centre and Paediatrics Unit.

The Mount Isa Hospital Emergency Department sees approximately 28,000 to 30,000 presentations per annum. An extremely varied mix of presentations gives clinical staff many opportunities to gain hands-on experience in procedural work and broad clinical experience.

The Job

• Develop areas of clinical interest to you within Anaesthesia (including obstetrics and regional), ICU, perioperative medicine and pain management. 

• You will join an Anaesthetics department that consists of a Clinical Director, Consultant Anaesthetist, Rural Generalist (Anaesthetics), Registrar and Resident Medical Officer. 

• You will provide best practice evidence based clinical services to achieve quality patient outcomes. 

• You will undertake supervision and education of junior medical staff and other relevant staff to foster safe clinical practice. 

• You will actively participate in risk management and quality programs to improve organisational processes and own practices.

• You will participate in an on-call roster as required. 

Rewards 

• Mount Isa is a unique and progressive city in the heart of North West Queensland. It is renowned for its friendly and welcoming nature. People enjoy living in this modern community, with restaurants, excellent health care, shopping, churches, clubs, service clubs and social activities. 

• Affectionately known as the ‘oasis of the outback,' Mount Isa represents over 50 nationalities which give the city a unique cosmopolitan flavour. 

• Living and working in Mount Isa, you will learn a great deal, see a great deal and the possible career paths are varied.

• Mount Isa is well serviced by air from Brisbane with daily flights and a flying time of 2.15hr.

• Houses rent in Mount Isa for $400 per week and units for $220 per week.

Requirements

• Eligible for registration as a Specialist in Anaesthesia with the Medical Board of Australia. 

• Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FANZCA) or equivalent from a comparable healthcare country. 

About Us

Elective Recruitment is a person-centred recruitment consultancy. Your career progression is just as important to us as is your wellbeing and work-life balance. We are acutely aware of the rising statistics identifying job dissatisfaction, stress, burnout and mental illness in the healthcare sector, and this concerns us.

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