WA Country Health Service has an exciting opportunity for Emergency Medicine Consultants to join our Kimberley team —experience rewarding work, stunning travel, and an unbeatable team.
About the Opportunity: As a Kimberley FACEM based in Broome, you will work alongside highly skilled emergency medicine Rural Generalists in the Broome Hospital Emergency Department (ED). The Broome Hospital ED is a busy regional department seeing around 30,000 presentations per year. The ED sees a broad case mix including a significant number of high acuity and trauma presentations as well as receiving inter-hospital transfers from smaller hospital sites across the Kimberley Region. This position offers Emergency Consultants the opportunity to develop and implement their unique scope of practice, in a rural emergency medicine setting where they would be joining a generalist team who have been the pillar of emergency care delivery in the Kimberley.
This position will promote patient quality and safety, building strong hospital morale and valuing the community and diversity within cultures. The successful applicant will demonstrate strong leadership skills and a commitment to nurturing the existing empowered multidisciplinary team culture. As a Kimberley FACEM, the successful applicant will have a significant role in teaching and training, with a remit for supervision of Interns, RMOs, and Registrars across the region, and there is an expectation that they will support an ACEM certificate training program.
About the Region: The Kimberley is Western Australia's northernmost region, with a coastline closer to South-East Asia than Perth. Bordered by the Pilbara region to the south and Northern Territory to the east, the 424,517 square kilometres region has fewer people per square kilometre than almost any other place on Earth.
Living in Broome offers an unparalleled lifestyle, with its famous beach lifestyle and tropical beauty. You will have access to excellent schooling and housing choices, making it an ideal place to settle down and enjoy a relaxed yet fulfilling life.
The West Kimberley is renowned for its dramatic and beautiful landscapes, including the towering cliffs, rocky headlands, sandy beaches, natural rivers, spectacular waterfalls, and thousands of islands off the remote sandstone coast. Characterised by its distinct wet and dry seasons, the Kimberley experiences a sub-tropical climate - May to October is the dry season, and November to April is the wet season. With a balmy climate, breathtaking scenery, unique flora and fauna, and a great variety of adventure and cultural experiences, the Kimberley offers a fantastic lifestyle that is family-friendly and supportive.
What's in it for you: As a Consultant, you will receive an attractive remuneration: Consultant Year 1-6 - p.a. $552,009 - $656,772 pa (inclusive of base salary, 11.5% superannuation, on call allowance and PDL allowance).
Additionally, working in WACHS comes with generous benefits, such as development opportunities, salary packaging, gratuity payment which pays a lump sum equivalent to 12 weeks salary after the first three years of continuous service and many more.
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For Further Job-Related Information: We encourage you to contact Dr John Robson 0430 509 759.
For full position details and to apply, please go to MedCareersWA Ref – 492693.
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