Job Overview
Contract position | Full time position.
Location: New Mount Lawley Hospital.
This role is part of a recruitment pool for Permanent and Fixed Term Part Time and Full Time positions with the potential for extension and/or permanency.
Diversity and Inclusion
EMHS is committed to ensuring our services are delivered by people who are representative of the diverse communities we assist. We embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from all ages, races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, family responsibilities and other characteristics, including Aboriginal people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, individuals with diverse sexualities or genders, bodily diversity and people with disability. WA Health is committed to growing the Aboriginal workforce as part of WA Health's Aboriginal Workforce Policy.
Section 51 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 applies to this position. Aboriginal people are encouraged to apply.
Position Profile
Leads the multidisciplinary team to provide specialist Geriatric medicine services to patients.
Promotes patient safety and quality of care.
Provides leadership, orientation, training, supervision and education, where relevant, for doctors in training, Health Service Medical Practitioners and other health workers.
Collaboration
In collaboration with the Head of Department of Geriatric Medicine and other consultants works to achieve national, state and EMHS performance standards and targets.
Works within the scope of clinical practice as defined and recommended by the EMHS Area Medical Credentialing Committee.
Conditions
WA Health engages staff in positions of trust and responsibility. Applicants are required to undertake a criminal records screening and integrity checking as part of the appointment process. Additional checks may include a Working With Children (WWC) check and a pre‐employment health assessment.
Referees may be asked to comment on integrity and past ethical conduct. Adverse information is considered but does not automatically disqualify an applicant.
Suitable applicants will be placed in a recruitment pool until 04/06/2027.
Benefits
* Professional development opportunities and study leave/assistance
* Flexible working arrangements and flexible leave arrangements
* Other professional and location based allowances
* 12% employer contributed superannuation into a fund of your choice
Application
Applicants should submit a covering letter, a statement addressing the selection criteria (not more than 2–3 pages) and a detailed curriculum vitae, prepared and attached before applying online.
Submission deadline: 4:00 pm on 04/06/2027. LATE OR EMAIL APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
Applicants are invited to apply via MedCareers: https://medcareerswa.health.wa.gov.au/jobs/493259.
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