Job vacancy: palliative medicine registrar
The Otago Community Hospice has established a full time registrar position and is looking for medical practitioners interested in palliative medicine for six to twelve month posts.
The position is suitable for advanced training in Palliative Medicine with the RACP Chapter of Palliative Medicine. The position would also suit General Practitioners, Rural Doctors and other practitioners that are interested in learning more about specialist palliative care. We would seriously consider a job-sharing scenario.
The Otago Community Hospice provides community focussed specialist palliative care and is based in Dunedin with an outreach programme serving North, South and Central Otago. A 12-bed Inpatient unit is located in Dunedin. The service is fully committed to an interdisciplinary approach. There is a strong relationship with Otago Medical School, Dunedin Public Hospital, including the Hospital Palliative Care Team and other Community Services. The position offers extensive teaching opportunities at an undergraduate level and in teaching and mentoring at a postgraduate level. Involvement in research is actively encouraged.
The Registrar would work across the Hospice services with a focus on the inpatient unit. They would be responsible, medically, for the day to day management of patients and be supervised by the Medical Leader.
It is essential that applicants have excellent communication skills, a continuous improvement focus and total commitment to collaborative teamwork.
We are fully committed to providing ongoing professional development opportunities for all staff and offer excellent working conditions. A job share scenario would be considered.
For further information about this exciting opportunity please call Ginny Green, CEO on 00 64 3 473 6005 or email ginny.green@otagohospice.co.nz. All enquiries will be treated in the strictest of confidence.