Emergency Department Consultants - FACEM
Job no: 939120
Work type: Casual, Full time, Part time
Location: Adelaide Metro Southern
Categories: Community and Social Services, Child, Aged and Disability Care, Emergency Services and Emergency Management, Nursing/Midwifery, Public Health
* Southern Adelaide Local Health Network – Flinders Medical Centre & Noarlunga Hospital – Emergency Department
* Total Indicative Remuneration Package: $296,708 -$383,234 MD02 (Subject to Private Practice)
* Various Ongoing, Temporary and Casual Contracts available
Join our Dynamic Emergency Medical Team as a Consultant!
As an Emergency Consultant, you will deliver the highest standard of care to a diverse patient population, ensuring clinical excellence both in your individual practice and as a leader within a multidisciplinary team. You will play a critical role in guiding junior medical staff, medical students, nurses, and allied health professionals, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Beyond your clinical duties, you will contribute meaningfully to teaching, quality and safety initiatives, clinical audits, and service development, helping us to sustain and improve the care we deliver to all our patients. You will also be encouraged to participate in research and ongoing professional development, supporting the continuous evolution of best‐practice emergency care. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that values innovation, teamwork, and a strong commitment to the health and wellbeing of our community.
About the role
Reporting to the ED Head of Unit, this role is responsible for providing clinical services of the highest possible standard to Emergency Department patients at Flinders Medical Centre and Noarlunga Health Services, both in terms of individual performance and by providing clinical leadership and contribution to a multidisciplinary approach to the delivery of patient care. The Emergency Consultant is actively involved in teaching medical students and trainee medical officers and where appropriate Nursing and Allied Health. The Emergency Consultant participates in clinical audit and quality, safety and clinical risk management activities and research and continuous medical education activities.
Duties for the role will include:
* Commitment to the provision of a multidisciplinary approach to clinical care
* Providing appropriate specialist level care to patients
* Coordinating the follow up care of patients
* Providing clinical supervision to Senior Medical Practitioners, Trainee Medical Officers and Medical Students
* Participating in the development of clinical guidelines and protocols
* Providing appropriate direction and supervision to registrars, resident medical officers and interns
About you
* Hold a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or equivalent qualification.
* Possess appropriate specialist qualifications – Fellowship of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEM), or FRACP Paediatric Emergency Physician (PEM) – and be eligible for or currently hold Specialist registration with the Medical Board of Australia.
* Demonstrate a consistently high standard of clinical practice, supported by extensive experience and broad medical expertise across diverse disciplines relevant to Emergency Medicine.
* Committed to ongoing professional development with a proven track record of participation in accredited continuing medical education since attaining specialist qualification.
* Experienced in supervising and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff, supporting their professional growth.
* Actively contribute to quality improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing patient safety and outcomes.
Applicant Information
* The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
* Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
* SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
* Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.
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