VMO

at  Ballarat Health Services

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Grampians Health Services provides inpatient and outpatient services for the women of Ballarat, Horsham and surrounding regions. Clinics offered in this service include antenatal care, gestational diabetes, high risk pregnancy care, surgical gynaecology, colposcopy, and family planning.
The service at Ballarat births approximately 1500 women annually and is a level 5 maternity service with a special care nursery capability caring for babies from 32 weeks’ gestation. Approximately 300 gynaecological operations are performed per year.
Grampians Health (GH) is the largest regional health service in Victoria with a catchment of 250,000 people.
The mission of GH is to deliver fully integrated regional health services which maximise care, compassion, individual choice and quality outcomes.
VMO Obstetrics and Gynaecology works closely with other members of the obstetric and gynaecology team including midwifery, nursing, allied health and other obstetric and gynaecology consultants as well as junior medical staff in the provision of high standard obstetrics and gynaecology management to patients in the region.

Clinical Duties

• Operating session as per agreed weekly timetable to cover obstetrics and gynaecology patients on the waiting list. This includes LUSCS lists (including complex caesareans).
• Obstetrics: Participate in birth suite consultant cover, maternity antenatal clinic and the obstetric on call roster as rostered.
• Supervise and teach junior medical staff in obstetrics.
• Work collaboratively within the team including with midwives, general practitioners, paediatricians, anaesthetists, social workers, and any staff involved in patient care.
• Gynaecology: Participate in gynaecology clinic, on call consultant duties day and night as rostered including care of emergency gynaecology patients, operating suite duties as rostered. Teach and supervise junior medical staff in gynaecology.
• Be available exclusively for Grampians Health services when rostered as the on-call consultant. During the day, it is expected that the rostered consultant is on site in the hospital from 0730 am to 530pm. During the evening and overnight, it is expected the rostered consultant is available for phone advice and to attend the hospital within 20 minutes of being requested to. The on-call consultant must attend if requested to by junior medical staff onsite or if requested to by the midwife in charge of birth suite.

• Assist with effective bed management and discharge planning for patients throughout Grampians Health Services.

  Benefits

Grampians Health Services is the largest employer in the region and boasts many great staff benefits that include:

• Collegiate team culture
• Salary Packaging (meals and entertainment)
• Staff health and wellbeing program
• Employee assistance program
• Free immunisations
• Opportunities for career development, access to CME and negotiable ongoing work within Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Short term accommodation assistance while settling in

• Benefits as stipulated in the AMA EBA award including phone allowance.

  About Grampians Health

• Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term.

• This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.
• A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Our communities are diverse, as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.

• Grampians Health provides acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services. This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.

  How to apply
  Click APPLY or contact Natasha Frawley, Clinical Director – Women’s and Children’s Services on 0401 179 298 or via email on natasha.frawley@gh.org.au, or contact Annabella Zupan Administrative Officer via email on Annabella.Zupan2@gh.org.au for a confidential discussion.
  All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.
  All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
  Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.