Emergency Medicine or Rural Hospital Specialist

• Timaru Hospital - South Canterbury, South Island
• Permanent - 0.5 -1.0 FTE

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we - re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

Timaru Emergency Department is dynamic, collegial, and varied - just like the community we serve. With around 22,000 presentations a year, you - ll see everything from everyday emergencies to trauma, supported by inpatient colleagues in Anaesthesia, Paediatrics, Mental health, O&G, General Surgery, Orthopaedics and Internal Medicine.
You - ll join a tight-knit, supportive team of specialists, Medical Officers, and highly skilled ED nurses. We - re proud of our culture: collaborative, welcoming, and flexible. Rostering is designed with people in mind - balancing service with lifestyle and valuing individual preferences. The current roster system is in the process of redesign at the time of advert and will allow for the expanded clinical supervision and on-call component.
The great thing about a smaller hospital is the opportunity to spend time at the patient - s bedside, to work up diagnostics as well as undertake practical skills that brought many of us into Emergency Medicine in the first place. The department has excellent access to imaging to aid clinical decision making.
Our patients often get a consultant delivered service and as a consequence we have one of the lowest admission rates in the country and excellent performance for Shorter Stays in the ED (SSED