**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time / Sessional
**Position Classification**: Staff Specialist / Visiting Medical Officer
**Remuneration**: $186,241 to $229,825 pa / As per VMO Determination (this does not include allowances, superannuation, TESL)
**Hours Per Week**: 40 hours pw / As per roster **Location**:Bathurst | NSW Government
**Applications Close**: 12 January 2025 - 11.59pm
**About the opportunity**
The total remuneration package (which includes salary, superannuation, TESL and other allowances) is **$365,000 to $400,000**.
This position qualifies for a **Recruitment Incentive Package** **up to the value of $5,000 **under the NSW Health Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme provided you are appointed as a Staff Specialist.
This scheme recognises the role key health workers play in enabling the delivery of rural and remote health services and aims to provide incentives over and above award entitlements, to attract and retain staff in these areas.
Packages may consist of relocation benefits, a fortnightly _Rural Retention Allowance_, contributions to professional development and utility reimbursements, in addition to accommodation assistance.
For more information, please discuss incentive options with the contact person for this role.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local, specialist Obstetrics and Gynaecology services for the health and wellbeing of the women in our community, and to provide a place for all staff to develop and build careers.
If you're looking for a meaningful career change that comes with all the perks of country living and an opportunity to build an expanding Obstetrics and Gynaecology service, we have a full time staff specialist vacancy available.
If you're ready to move to regional New South Wales, read on.
As a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the Bathurst Health Service, you will have a personal commitment to providing an effective and efficient inpatient and outpatient service and an unequivocal dedication to working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
This position offers a broad experience in all aspects of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. You will have a demonstrated commitment to continuing professional development and to providing supervision and training to learners at all levels.
With over 500 births a year the maternity service is a dynamic and important part of the Bathurst Health Service. Maternity services are provided to our community through the collaboration of Specialist Obstetricians, Midwives, GP Obstetricians, Child and Family Health, Aboriginal Maternal & Infant Health Service, Perinatal Mental Health and Specialist Paediatric services.
Bathurst Health Service is a level 4 role delineated regional maternity service with a level 3 special care nursery.
**What we can offer you**
- Salary consistent with the Staff specialists award including superannuation, and access to salary packaging.
- Relocation and accommodation assistance.
- Contemporary, well equipped work environments.
- Flexible work/life balance.
- Attractive Salary Package, up to 5 weeks Annual Leave with 4 weeks leave including 17.5% leave loading; 5 weeks per year Training Education and Study Leave (TESL), and 10 days paid sick leave per year (dependent on classification).
- Dynamic team environment.
- Country living with a meaningful career path
- Corporate wellbeing programs, including the Fitness Passport
**Where you'll be working**
This role is based at Bathurst Health Service, a part of the Western NSW Local Health District. The facility is a Level 4, 120 bed acute hospital that services a rapidly growing catchment population and is about to undergo a $200M redevelopment to bring new and expanded services into the region.
Bathurst Hospital staff, clinicians and the Western NSW Local Health District have provided valuable input to the project team which has helped inform the planning and design and will continue to provide input as the facility is built and refurbished. This is a great opportunity to be involved at the ground level in the redevelopment and service design of this project.
Bathurst provides allied health, ambulatory care, coronary care, emergency medicine (26,000 presentations a year), intensive care, general medicine, mental health drug & alcohol, obstetrics & gynaecology, oncology, paediatrics, pathology, radiology, rehabilitation and surgery services. The service also has active hospital in the home and primary community health services to the surrounding townships.
Bathurst Health Service has a strong partnership with the University of Western Sydney and Charles Sturt University, conducting research and providing training opportunities for medical students. The facility has a strong partnerships with several Universities, providing student clinical placements, education and patient referral opportunities.
A comfortable and scenic 2.5 hour drive from Sydney, Bathurst is Australia's oldest inland colonial settlement and is close en