Senior Medical Officer, General Medicine - Acute Medicine

\n Acute Medicine Senior Medical Officer (SMO) Middlemore Hospital | South Auckland, New Zealand Permanent | Full-time or Part-time\n
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Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is seeking Acute Medicine Senior Medical Officers – SMOs with a passion for Acute Medicine at Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau, based at Middlemore Hospital, in South Auckland, New Zealand. This permanent opportunity offers flexibility with full-time or part-time appointments to support individual lifestyle and career goals.

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\n Key Responsibilities\n
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• Provide expert clinical care to patients presenting with a wide range of acute medical conditions.
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• Lead a multi-disciplinary team within our Medical Assessment Unit.
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• Supervise initial clinical assessments by junior medical staff, provide early senior decision making, and direct disposition and management.
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• Provide expert clinical advice to referring clinicians from Primary Care, Emergency Department, and other medical specialties.
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• Lead ward rounds on patients anticipated to require a short hospital stay.
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• Conduct urgent assessment & management in an ambulatory setting via the Acute Medicine Rapid Access Clinic.
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• Participate in training of junior doctors and other health professionals.
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• Assist in developing guidelines, clinical pathways, and service quality improvement.
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\n About Middlemore Hospital\n
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Middlemore Hospital is the main hub for acute care and referral services within CM Health. It is an accredited, teaching hospital of Auckland University and caters for most medical and surgical specialties with a catchment area of around 600,000 people. We also provide niche specialist tertiary services for regional and national consumers in orthopaedic and plastic surgery, burns, spinal injury rehabilitation, renal dialysis, and neonatal intensive care.

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\n Acute Medicine & General Medicine\n
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South Auckland has the highest health needs in New Zealand with relatively high levels of socio-economic deprivation, chronic diseases, and acute presentations with high acuity & complexity. Our population has the highest ethnic and cultural diversity in NZ. This makes the General Medicine experience at Middlemore complex and challenging, but also highly rewarding and interesting for those who value caring for the patients most in need of it.

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Acute Medicine is developing as a specific sub-service of General Medicine focusing on the first 24 hours. It aims to deliver early senior-led decision making in acute referrals, patient assessments, and management pathways. This includes the Acute Medicine Rapid Access Clinic to deliver urgent ambulatory assessment and care without admission to hospital. Acute Medicine is still evolving so there is room to adapt and shape it according to our needs.

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Regular educational activities include Grand Rounds, Morbidity and Mortality meetings, peer review, and structured undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes.

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\n About You\n
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• You should be either registered, or be eligible for vocational registration within, the scope of General & Acute Care Medicine with the Medical Council of New Zealand.
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• You should also have a specific interest in Acute Medicine.
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• Previous experience as a Consultant in Acute Medicine and/or Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) is desirable.
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• A commitment to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.
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• Excellent communication, teamwork, and clinical leadership skills.
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• Applicants will be required to complete source verification of qualifications as part of the Medical Council of New Zealand registration process (EPIC).
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\n What We Offer\n
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Permanent full-time or part-time employment options.

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• A supportive and collaborative consultant team.
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• Opportunities for professional development, teaching, research, and clinical leadership.
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• Reimbursement of Annual Practising Certificate costs.
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• Regular in-house continuing professional development sessions.
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• Access to employee benefits and discounted services.
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• Additional allowances for Continuous Clinical Development
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\n Enquiries\n
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For further information, please contact:

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You can contact our SMO Recruitment Consultant at [email protected] for general enquiries.

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For role-specific questions, please contact Dr Ruwan Chaturanga Wijayaratna - Head of General Medicine Department at [email protected]

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At Counties Manukau Health people and their lives matter to us. We are a values based and inclusive organisation that is committed to delivering the best health outcomes for our community. To help us achieve this we need a workforce that reflects the population we serve. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds who share our values and have a passion to work in our community and would greatly value seeing applicants from our Maaori and Pacific communities. We are also committed to our Disability Strategy, which focuses on people with disabilities; they are our patients, whaanau, community and our staff - all carefully considered in our action plan. Together we will improve the accessibility needs for everyone who has a disability. Our values are Valuing Everyone - Whakawhanaungatanga, Kind Manaakitanga, Together Kotahitanga, Excellent - Rangatiratanga. If these are your values too, then join us today.

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