Job Description
The Medical Education Unit at the Mackay Base Hospital are looking for a Senior Medical Officer to join their team on a Temporary Part time basis.
Live, work and play in majestic Mackay.
Join an expanding Health Service with a culture of collaboration, trust, respect and teamwork.
About the Medical Education Unit
The Medical Education Unit (MEU) provides accredited educational programs, facilitates adequate supervision and monitoring of clinical performance, and provides mentoring and personal support for prevocational medical practitioners (doctors who are in their first to third year of training after graduation from medical school) and international medical graduates.
The unit works in close collaboration with James Cook University and with Clinical Directors in the Mackay Health Service District to support the learning objectives of prevocational doctors.
Your opportunity
The Senior Medical Officer Education (SMO Education) provides leadership in clinical education to mentor and supportthe MEU education programs.
This position reports to the Director Clinical Training.
Your role
Develop,Lead, ImplementandreviewtheyearlyFormalEducation Programcongruent toNationalCurriculumFrameworkforJunior Doctors and the Mackay MedicalEducationFramework.
Facilitatethe Formal Education Programand / orsourceleadclinicalexpertiseinthe delivery ofFormal Education Program.
Develop, Lead, Implementand Reviewthe yearly PGY1/PGY2OrientationprimaryfocusofClinical Skills,



Mandatory Clinical Training, Clinical Simulations andClinicalResponsiveness.
Workcollaborativelywiththe assigned Medical Education Officer (MEOs)to redressInterns in distress.
Provideexpert clinicalknowledge andguidanceto the MEU.
DeveloparobustyearlyGrand Roundswhich aligns to theclinicalgoals of the Hospital and Health Service (HHS).
Provideclinical mentorshiptoidentifiedPGY1/PGY2and International Medical Graduates (IMGs).
Assist MEOstodevelopandimplementPGY1/PGY2and/orIMGsImprovingPerformance ActionPlans (IPAP).
Actively engage with PGY1/PGY2 or International Medical Graduates that are placed onanIPAP.
Provideclinicalguidanceto Junior Medical Officer Forum (JMOF), Prevocational Medical Education Committee (PMEC) Assessment Review Panel (ARP and the Assessment Appeals Committee (AAP).
Liaiseand collaboratewith theRuralSMO, MEU to provide aconsistenteducationexperienceto PGY1s and PGY2s placed in Rural hospitals including Proserpine, Sarina and Bowen Hospitals.
Provide support to Clinical Supervisors to provide clinical feedback to PGY1/PGY2 consistent with Entrustable Professional Activity.
Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) Requirements: It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against the following vaccine preventable diseases during their employment: measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (chicken pox), pertussis (whooping cough).

📌 Senior Medical Officer - Education (North Mackay)
🏢 Queensland Health
📍 North Mackay