**High quality healthcare. Quality of life. Learn and grow in your career and in your life, with more opportunities and more flexibility.**
**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
**Position Classification**: Career Medical Off Gde 1 / Gde 2
**Remuneration**: $139,187 - $207,388 per annum, plus super
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ585577
**About the role**
The primary purpose of the Career Medical Officer (CMO) is to provide independent, high level medical care, including responsibility for the assessment, investigation and initial management of patients presenting to the Emergency Department and those admitted to inpatient wards. The CMO will be supervised by specialist staff and provide supervision and support to junior medical staff in the Medical wards.
Ballina is surrounded by world-renowned beaches and national parks and has activities for everyone, including bushwalking, surfing, a strong sporting community, and a vibrant café culture. Our airport has direct flights to Sydney and Melbourne. Twenty minutes' drive from Byron Bay, just an hour to Queensland's Gold Coast or under two hours to Brisbane.
**About Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD)**
We are a healthcare community, caring for the people of the Northern Rivers. We understand that high quality healthcare and quality of life go hand in hand. Our hospitals, and our community health and multipurpose services are a well-balanced modern network truly connecting the communities we serve across the Tweed, Richmond and Clarence Valleys.
If you care about high quality healthcare and quality of life, we encourage you to join us.
**You care. We care.** Learn more about NNSWLHD here.
**Relocating to the region?**
The Welcome Experience in the Northern Rivers connects you and your family with local people and resources, to help you settle in and feel at home in your new community faster.
**Join our team and you'll enjoy**:
- Salary packaging and novated leasing - increase your take-home pay
- Fitness discounts - focus on your health and wellbeing
- Growth - access to professional and personal development
- Team culture - work in a collaborative, flexible and supportive team environment
- Opportunities to start or build a career, or re-enter the workforce
**Need more information?**
**Applications Close: 22 July 2025**
**_ Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day._**
NNSWLHD embraces the diverse skills and perspectives that our people bring to the workplace. We foster inclusiveness and diversity to help us deliver quality care to our community.
This recruitment may be used to fill future positions for permanent, temporary and casual positions
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