WNSWLHD - Rural Generalist - GP Anaesthetics - Lachlan Health Service. Apply via eCredential

Employment Type :Fee for Service Rural Doctor's Settlement Package or Sessional

Position Classification : Visiting Medical Officer

Remuneration: As per applicable VMO Determination
Hours Per Week : Up to 40 hours per week
Location: Lachlan NSW

Applications Close: 25 October 2026 - 11.59pm

Western NSW Local Health District is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability and people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply for our advertised positions. If you require any assistance with your application or have any questions about this position, please get in touch with the contact person listed in this advertisement.

Visiting Medical Officer – GP Anaesthetics – Lachlan Health Service

As a Staff Specialist/Visiting Medical Officer – General Practitioner Anaesthetics in the Lachlan Health Service (Parkes and Forbes), you will join a dynamic team of expert clinicians who provide patient-centred care. Your role will help drive quality and protected standards of care to patients throughout our Local Health District.

Parkes and Forbes are 30 kms apart and sit about 100 kms from the nearest regional centre, Orange.

Both towns are well connected to good solid infrastructure with 15,000 and 10,000 populations respectively.

Both LGA Councils offer great websites to inspire and inform people who might wish to relocate or visit the towns.

Lachlan Anaesthetic Services – Lachlan comprises two Procedural Hospitals providing Surgical and Obstetrics services, birthing approx.



300 women on average per annum. On-call Anaesthetic services are also required.

Successful candidates may be able to seek an Academic/Teaching/Research role with one of our three partner Universities in the District being University of Sydney for Dubbo Health Service, Charles Sturt University for Orange Health Service and Western Sydney University for Bathurst Health Service. To enquire about available opportunities, please reach out to the relevant Head of Clinical School.

What we can offer you

- Country living with a meaningful career path
- Flexible work practices (as appropriate to the position and negotiated with your manager)
- Opportunities for learning and development, including in-house training with My Health Learning and the NSW Health RTO
- Professional growth and accelerated career progression

Where you'll be working

You will be based at Lachlan Health Service – Parkes and Forbes, a part of the Western NSW Local Health District. For more information on living and working in our beautiful region, visit our website Western NSW Health Careers .

Famous for its historical connections with the bushranger Ben Hall and its beautiful parks and gardens, Forbes is an important and centrally located inland town in the central west of New South Wales.

Forbes is located five hours from Sydney,



just over an hour from the major rural city of Orange and under two hours’ drive from Dubbo, home to the famous Taronga Western Plains Zoo. Forbes Hospital is part of the Lachlan Health Service (which also includes nearby Parkes Hospital) and is a major district health service and procedural hospital.

The facility has 27 beds and includes acute and sub-acute medical, surgical, rehabilitation and palliative care services, two birthing rooms and two maternity rooms, one operating theatre, six renal dialysis chairs, two day treatment spaces, medical imaging and colocasted community and primary health services including outreach services to surrounding smaller towns. The facility has a modern emergency department with a large resuscitation bay and three beds.

Famous for its annual Elvis Festival and the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope (‘the Dish’), the historic town of Parkes is located in the Central West less than five hours’ drive from Sydney with daily return flights and rail transport options. Cosmopolitan Orange is just over an hour away and in less that 2 hours you can be in Dubbo, home of the Taronga Western Plains Zoo.

Parkes Hospital is a brand new facility which was opened in 2015, making it a world-class, modern and exciting facility in which to work.

The facility has 28 inpatient beds which includes acute and sub-acute, medical, surgical, rehabilitation and palliative care services.

Services at Parkes Hospital include two birthing rooms, three maternity beds, two operating theatres, chemotherapy, medical imaging and collocated community and primary health services which includes outreach to surrounding towns.

- Unconditional General and/or Spec

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