Senior Medical Officer - WBA Clinical Lead

About Mackay Hospital & Health Service

Mackay Hospital and Health Service (HHS) is a contemporary organisation providing extensive health services across six hospitals, two multi-purpose health services and four community health centres to a population of around 185,000 people.

We are a team of more than 3,500 dedicated staff providing support to the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday regions; stretching from Bowen and the Whitsundays in the north to St Lawrence in the south, and west to Clermont. Our region is about the size of Ireland, with a mix of regional and rural areas, covering an area of approximately 90,0002km.

Mackay HHS provides a working environment that embraces professional development, builds capabilities, provides roles with variety and flexibility, supports staff to maximise their health and wellbeing and encourages work life balance.

The MHHS respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land and sea on which we serve our communities, and pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for all advertised positions.

We are located in a vibrant regional area of tropical north Queensland which offers all the benefits of coast and country living, allowing you to pursue a wide range of interests and lifestyles in a secure, family-friendly and culturally diverse environment. Our climate is ideal for outdoor living with beautiful beaches, subtropical rainforest and vast open spaces. There is a good choice of quality schools, wide range of sporting clubs and excellent community facilities.

You can enjoy cafes, restaurants and bars, festivals, art galleries and interesting communities, making this a great place for those looking to escape busy metro cities and try life at a different pace. Our thriving economy is supported by a diverse range of tourism, agriculture, mining, education and health industries.

About the Unit / Team / Department

The Medical Education Unit (MEU) provides accredited educational programs, facilitates adequate supervision and monitoring of clinical performance, and provides mentoring and personal support for prevocational medical practitioners (doctors who are in their first to third year of training after graduation from medical school and have not yet committed to vocational training, i.e., interns and resident medical officers) and international medical graduates.

The Unit works in close collaboration with James Cook University and with the Director of Clinical Training in the various vocational training pathways available in the Mackay HHS to provide coordinated, integrated and comprehensive training of medical practitioners extending from undergraduate, prevocational, vocational and postgraduate training.

Your opportunity

Mackay Hospital and Health Service has become an accredited provider of the Workplace Based Assessment (WBA) Program. This program provides for an alternative pathway for international medical graduates to gain AHPRA Generalist Registration in Australia through a series of workplace-based assessments rather than through the Australia Medical Council (AMC) Clinical Examination.

The purpose of the WBA Clinical Lead is to provide overall clinical expert advice and management of the MHHS WBA program.

See Role Description for Role-specific responsibilities

Vaccine Preventable Disease (VPD) Requirements

It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be and remain vaccinated against vaccine preventable diseases as listed on the Role Description.