ME Medical Recruitment - Senior Medical Officer wanting - Full time Permanent or Part Time wanted, asap start.

About the Role:
The Senior Medical Officer will be responsible for the provision of efficient quality medical services to inpatients and

outpatients of the Chinchilla Hospital Western Cluster and the Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service including the

provision of 24 hour emergency department coverage on a rostered basis in Chinchilla.

The purpose of this position is to provide clinical services in the areas of inpatient and outpatient care, administration,

service planning and teaching to the communities of the Western Region based around Chinchilla

Key Accountabilities:

The key accountabilities of the role are:

- Follow defined service quality standards, work health and safety policies and procedures relating to the work being undertaken in order to ensure high quality, safe services and workplaces.
- Implement and monitor the organisation’s quality standards, work health and safety policies, procedures and programs and provide clinical governance in the relevant work area.
- Provide leadership of the multidisciplinary team to improve care by being a role model, reviewing and developing care processes, monitoring emerging issues and leading change.
- Undertake clinical responsibilities including on call by providing patient care, liaison with other doctors, and hospitals for referrals, and maintaining appropriate records and confidentiality, including obtaining and documenting consent.



Clinical service delivery is based in Chinchilla with engagement and service between hospitals in the Western Cluster, and wider Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service on an occasional as needs basis.
- Participate in clinical governance by pro-actively managing patient feedback, attending peer review audits, monitoring care outcomes and reporting promptly to Medical Superintendent and/or Director Medical Services Rural of any significant concerns with quality of care.
- Participate in and facilitate education including for medical students and for nursing and allied health staff providing training and supervision. Engage in self-education to ensure currency of practice.
- Participate in annual Performance Planning and Development.

Staffing and budget responsibilities:

- The SMO reports to the Medical Superintendent, Chinchilla Hospital who in turn reports to Director Medical Services Rural.
- This SMO position has no direct line management responsibility for budget, but the overarching principle of the Hospital and Health Service is that all staff have a responsibility to use resources efficiently, effectively, and diligently. Resources should not be wasted.




- The SMO position will be required to participate in the Revenue Management Strategy for the Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service.
- Medical practice within your approved credentialed scope of clinical practice in Rural Generalist
- Anaesthetics/Obstetrics or Emergency Medicine.
- Provision of evidence-based and quality clinical care of individual patients in all domains of medical practice:
- - Patient Interview
- - Clinical examination
- - Identification of clinical problems and health opportunities
- - Plan of overall clinical care and health promotion
- - Maintenance of concise but comprehensive, accurate, legible records of patient status and progress and associated correspondence.
- Quality skilled communication with individual patients, relatives, guardians and all relevant health professionals necessary for quality clinical care outcomes, including for the transfer of responsibility of clinical care.
- Commitment to patient safety and to improve clinical care through participation in clinical audits, clinical meetings, peer review and other safety and quality assurance programs and presentations.
- Follow hospital policies, procedures and work directions.
- Commitment to maintain clinical standards through participation in college or Queensland Health prescribed continuing professional development programs.
- Actively conduct research in their specialist medical area.
- Provide ethical decision making in the achievement of organisational goals.
- Commitment to teaching, supervision and mentorship of other medical staff and students, including the completion of qual

📌 Senior Medical Officer (Australia)
🏢 ME Medical Recruitment
📍 Australia