Senior Medical Officer (General Practice - Urgent Care / Minor Injury & Illness)

at  Queensland Health

ABOUT YOU:

You will understand Metro South Health’s values, have a genuine desire to join our team who are committed to best practice and share our love of people to help deliver a caring service to our patients. You will contribute to our growth with your passion and expertise in discipline/position title with the ability to:

• Motivated, passionate professional, who thrives on providing quality healthcare
• Demonstrated ability to work both autonomously and within a team environment
• Excellent communication skills, strong patient focus and high level of attention to detail

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Delivery of medical services and safe, high quality patient care at the minor injury and illness clinics located at the Eight Mile Plains Satellite Hospital and Logan Urgent and Specialist Care Centre.
• The minor injury and illness clinics will be an extended hours 7-day a week service providing care that meets the needs of patients requiring urgent, but non-life-threatening, illnesses and injuries. Patients requiring Emergency Department level care will be referred to the appropriate facility for their care.
• Leading, fostering and promoting engagement, partnership and teamwork including working collaboratively with members of a multidisciplinary team and colleagues across Metro South Health to facilitate safe and effective patient outcomes.
• Ensuring high quality training, education and supervision of other healthcare member

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values underpin what we care about as a health service, how we treat each other and our commitment to caring for the community. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation and family responsibilities to apply. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community.