Senior Medical Officer
Mackay Hospital and Health Service
Posted 12 days ago
The Mackay Hospital and Health Service covers Sarina in the south, Clermont in the west, and Bowen and the Whitsunday Islands in the northeast. It services approximately 182,000 people in an area of approximately 90,000km.
Your Opportunity
This position is tasked to develop and maintain a high-quality, effective, efficient and equitable clinical service to hospital clients admitted to HITH and GEM/R-HITH. Patients from General Medicine and Surgery, and Orthopaedics will form the bulk of patients in this service, incorporating telehealth models of care, including remote patient monitoring.
About the Unit
The Care in the Right Setting (CaRs) program aims to improve access to health care and reduce the demand on hospitals by improving flow and promoting the right care in the right time for the right outcome. The CaRS Team includes Hospital in The Home (HiTH), Geriatric Evaluation Management / Rehabilitation – Hospital in The Home (GEM/R-HiTH), Residential Aged Care Facility Support Service (RaSS), Mackay QPS (Watchhouse), Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention (GEDI) and four hospital funded beds at Glenella Care Residential Aged Care Facility awaiting permanent placement (INTRM). Patients receive quality care that is tailored to their individual health care needs.
The HiTH service is a hospital substitution service with the expressed aim to provide medical, nursing and allied health care to patients in their home environment. Without a HiTH Service, eligible patients would otherwise be admitted to hospital for monitoring/treatment in a traditional inpatient bed. Common conditions managed include a variety of infections requiring intravenous antibiotics, anticoagulation management and post operative drain/wound care.
The GEM/R-HiTH service provides care to admitted inpatients in their homes or suitable accommodation. This sub-acute service, led by a geriatrician and rehabilitation physician, facilitates multidisciplinary community-based care, enabling a seamless transition home. It supports a range of patients, including those with orthopaedic, stroke, respiratory, and chronic conditions, through short-term rehabilitation aimed at maximising functionality in their own environment. This care is delivered by medical staff, along with nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, dietitians and speech pathologists.
Remuneration & Other Benefits
Remuneration value up to $183,437 p.a. comprising salary between $2,792.00 p.f. - $3,856.32 p.f. (32hrs p.f.)(L13-L25), employer super contribution (up to 12.75%), annual leave loading (17.5%), professional development allowance, and professional development leave 3.6 weeks p.a.
How to Apply
For full details of this role and how to apply, please refer to the attached Role Description.
About Mackay Hospital and Health Service
Queensland Health is the state's largest healthcare provider. We are committed to ensuring all Queenslanders have access to a range of public healthcare services aimed at achieving good health and well-being.
Through a network of 16 Hospital and Health Services, as well as the Mater Hospitals, Queensland Health delivers a range of integrated services including hospital inpatient, outpatient and emergency services, community and mental health services, aged care services and public health and health promotion programs.
What do we do?
Every day in Queensland Health:
• $29.980 million is spent on public health services
• 603 women are screened for breast cancer
• 1,309 people receive residential care in 20 aged care facilities
• 120 babies are born in acute public hospitals
• 760 callers are given clinical advice by qualified nurses through 13HEALTH
• 70 health services provide clinical consultations using state-wide videoconference technology.
• 6400 patient meals are served every day in Brisbane’s public hospitals alone.
• And much more!
In addition, $7 billion is being spent to build and expand our hospitals and health services for communities across the State, creating 40,000 construction jobs.
For a full list of our services, please visit http://www.health.qld.gov.au/about_qhealth/default.asp
Queensland Health also works with the Australian Department of Health and Ageing (DOHA) to deliver quality health services to Queenslanders. DOHA's responsibilities cover general practitioners, Medicare, immunisation, aged care, implementation of the National Health and Hospitals Network, private health insurance, pharmaceutical benefits scheme (PBS), mental health, after hours GP helpline, and a range of other initiatives. More information on what DOHA does can be found here: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/health-overview.htm
To provide better patient outcomes, Queensland Health links with a number of organisations, community groups, and General Practitioners. Queensland Health is committed to providing a range of services aimed at achieving good health and well-being for all Queenslanders. The Health Services Information Agency’s (HSIA) role is focused on delivering and sustaining critical information services and innovative technology solutions to support delivery of healthcare services for Queenslanders. The Agency is currently transitioning to become a commercialised business unit within the Department of Health. The core behaviours of our team are based on collaboration, innovation and customer focus. Queensland Health’s Health Services Information Agency is one of the largest Information Communication Technology (ICT) operations in the state. In particular, we deliver: - Reliable access to Queensland Health's major information systems through a wide variety of desktop computers, laptops, personal computing devices and telephones. - Leadership and guidance in identifying and resolving the information and technology implications of changes in healthcare. - Innovation and ICT solutions and programs such as eHealth. - Leadership in the development and implementation of information management and ICT strategies, policies and standards. - Facilitation of governance to ensure the greatest health care value is obtained from investments that leverage information and ICT.
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