Staff Specialist in Palliative Medicine - Maitland Hospital & Maitland Dungog Palliative Care Service (apply via eCredential)

Our Maitland Dungog Palliative Care Service is looking for a Palliative Medicine Specialist to provide direct clinical care of patients and families referred to our care.

Our service is a predominantly community service with telehealth, domiciliary visits and ambulatory outpatient clinic activity.

Inpatient consultative services are also provided to Maitland and Dungog Hospitals. Telehealth support to patients in other areas of HNELHD may be required.

Requirements:

• Recent and experience in Palliative Medicine.
• Have an interest in living and working in a regional centre providing care for the Maitland and Lower Hunter Valley communities
• Have expertise in the management of patients within community and in-patient settings and the transition between locations
• Have the ability to sensitively explore the patients’ concerns across physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual domains
• Be able to provide pain and other symptom management including safe and appropriate use of medications, regardless of the route of administration, with a particular focus on the subcutaneous route
• Be able to provide a consultative service to patient treating teams
• Have excellent communication skills to effectively liaise with patients, their families and other health professionals involved in the patients’ care
• Be able to practice culturally appropriate medicine with understanding of the personal, historical, contextual, legal, cultural and social influences on both health workers and patients and families

What we can offer you:
Hunter New England Local Health District is a great place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry we provide a range of public health services to the Hunter, New England and Lower Mid North Coast.

We have excellent links with Hunter Medical Research Institute and University of Newcastle – ask us more about these options.

An eligibility list will be created for future permanent & temporary full & part time positions

NSW Health does not require or accept the ‘Fit2Work badge’ offered as an option in eCredential

Agency applications are NOT accepted

All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). Additionally, Category A workers are required to receive a booster dose three months after completing the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations. New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (IM011 immunisation medical exemption form) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW. Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations.