Staff Specialist, Emergency - Brisbane, Australia - Queensland Health

Queensland Health

Verified Company

Brisbane, Australia

2 weeks ago

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Olivia Brown

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Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the RoleThe QEII Emergency Department offers immediate care for all emergency presentations excluding major trauma and obstetrics and consists of 18 acute, 8 Fast Track, and 3 resuscitation bays.

It is responsible for the triage, assessment, immediate treatment and disposition of acutely ill adult and paediatric patients presenting to the hospital.

Initiate the clinical care of patients in the Emergency Department and ensure appropriate transfer to inpatient care when indicated. Arrange patient management in accordance with the best interests of the patient. Consult with Specialist staff and other Hospital staff as required with respect to patient management and related issues. Escalate to specialists of other craft groups to help expedite better patient care.
Possess and maintain high level resuscitation skills (including relevant procedures).

Our ICARE2 values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health.

Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 Health Employment Directive No.

12/21 and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70.