General Medicine SMO
at Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora
Thames, Waikato, New Zealand -
| Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immediate | 29 Jan, 2025 | Not Specified | 31 Oct, 2024 | 6 year(s) or above | Good communication skills | No | No |
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| Full Time | Part Time |
| Permanent | Independent - 1099 |
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Description:
How To Apply:
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Responsibilities:
- Direct inpatient care and acute assessment of Thames General Medicine patients, including providing General Medicine Specialist support for the Thames Emergency Department
- Supporting primary and ambulatory care including providing phone advice to General Practitioners, electronic triaging of referrals from primary care, providing outpatient assessment (General Medicine Clinic and Exercise Treadmill tests), and communicating with General Practitioners (Clinic Letters, Discharge Summaries, and other communications).
- Providing support, leadership and education to Thames General Medicine Resident Medical Officers.
- Collaborating with Thames and Waikato Hospital SMOs and patient flow managers to ensure safe, timely and efficient transfer of patients between hospitals. In a modern health system, patient flow is indivisible from patient care.
- Ensuring timely acknowledgment and actioning of investigation results and engaging in non-clinical activities commensurate with the SMO role including maintaining Professional Development, attending departmental meetings, undertaking service improvement activities, and supporting the professional development of our inter-disciplinary team.
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Mō tātou Ratonga | About our Service
Thames is a vibrant, modernised 50 bed secondary hospital with an emergency department, inpatient medicine, day case surgery, infusion unit, rehabilitation services, and low-acuity mental health beds. It is a rural hospital, with subspecialty services provided at Waikato Hospital—around 90 minutes away by road transport. There are 24 hour laboratory and radiology services including CT imaging. We are an accredited training unit for 5th and 6th year medical students from Auckland University, for PGY2 House Officers, for in Rural Hospital Medicine registrars, and for a General and Acute Care Medicine advanced training registrar. We have an active quality improvement and internal CME program, as well as an RMO teaching program. Telehealth is an expanding area of care provided in Thames, with current use on the inpatient ward, for outpatient clinics and in the emergency department for stroke thrombolysis.
Thames is a coastal town on the shores of the Hauraki Gulf and is known as the gateway to the Coromandel. The peninsula is a popular recreation destination, with surf beaches and native bush providing plenty of opportunity for down time. The town is centrally located in northern Waikato and is around 90 minutes’ drive to Auckland, Hamilton or Tauranga.
Join us - Come and join us at Thames Hospital
or visit our website https://www.waikatodhb.health.nz/jobs/vacancies/join-thames/ and find out more about our team
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:6.0Max:11.0 year(s)
Hospital/Health Care
Pharma / Biotech / Healthcare / Medical / R&D
Health Care
Graduate
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Thames, Waikato, New Zealand
