Consultant - Physician – General Medicine (Home Hospital)
Consultant Physician- General Medicine MP Year 1-9 FSFHG SM116646-20250227.pdf
Working with SMHS 16042025.pdf
Salary: MP Year 1-9 $352,448 - $448,210 p.a. pro rata (inclusive of base salary and applicable allowances)
Med Careers WA 492939 / CRVCID685990
This is where jobs become careers, passion finds its purpose, and your voice finds its place. Are you ready to dive headfirst into the community taking excellent health care where it's needed? Then South Metropolitan Health Service is the perfect place to start!
Our Home Hospital (HH) service enables eligible patients to be transferred home and receive hospital standard care to complete their recovery. The service is managed by the SMHS Community Services program and was formerly known as Hospital in the Home (HITH).
Home Hospital is a hospital substitution service replacing a full hospital admission or a component of a hospital admission for suitable patients. HH provides acute inpatient equivalent care, utilising highly skilled staff, hospital technologies, equipment, medication, and safety and quality standards, to deliver hospital-level care within a person’s place of residence or preferred (non-hospital) treatment location.
SMHS delivers quality, safe and effective hospital and health services within a catchment area stretching more than 3300 square kilometres across the southern half of Perth.
Our vision is Excellent health care, every time. You can read more about SMHS in our Strategic Plan here.
The Consultant Physician position provides clinical leadership and will provide support to develop and advocate for the HH service. This position will lead clinical decision making for patients on the HH caseload. They will have input into expanding patient pathways, management plans, risk assessments and escalation if required. Due to the nature of the HH position dual training (e.g., Medical/Geriatrics/Infectious Diseases/ Cardiology/Endocrine/Renal) is highly regarded. Physicians from any of these specialties with generalist interest are encouraged to apply.
The Consultant role is based on site at the hospital, ‘referral finding’ i.e. working ED and AMU to identify suitable patients, accepting patients, providing service advocacy and relationship building with other inpatient teams. Review of inpatients in the community will generally be done virtually.
Our Values guide our work in every action, and that includes recruitment and employment! SMHS encourages Aboriginal people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds or LGBTI communities, and people with disability to work with us. Whatever your age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and family/carer responsibilities are, we ask that you consider bringing your expertise to our workforce.
Want to know more? We encourage you to contact Dr Gillian Scott, Medical Director of Community Services 0434 855 356 or Home Hospital A/Project Manager on 0481 619 911, email hayley.mcguiness@health.wa.gov.au
If you are ready to partner with us see the application instructions below:
Applicants MUST apply online via MedCareersWA
(Please note: Applicants must have a current, valid email address in order to apply online. This email address will be used for communication with applicants. Emailed applications will not be accepted.)
Your application should include:
- A copy of your current CV
- Please provide a letter expressing interest in the position (no more than two pages) addressing the 2 essential selection criteria below and briefly describing how experience gained would support you delivering the Hospital in the Home service, a hospital-substitution service delivery model.
- Demonstrated experience and commitment to working in a coordinated multidisciplinary team and to ongoing clinical service redesign to improve the systems of care for patients.
- Demonstrated high level communication, interpersonal, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- The names and contact details of two (2) current referees who can attest to your suitability for this role.
These documents should be complete and ready to attach prior to applying online. Please ensure you allow enough time to complete the online application process as you will be required to answer various questions and attach your documentation.
If you experience difficulties while applying online, please contact: MedCareersWA@health.wa.gov.au
Eligibility & Conditions
Are you eligible? To be eligible for appointment, applicants must have a valid working visa (for fixed term appointments) or be an Australian citizen, permanent resident, or have a visa to live and work indefinitely in Australia (for permanent appointments).
WA Health embraces diversity and is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of our service. We are committed to growing the Aboriginal workforce as a part of WA Health’s Aboriginal Workforce Policy and as a measure to achieve equality, Section 51 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 applies to this position. Aboriginal people are encouraged to apply.
WA Health engages staff in positions of trust and responsibility. WA Health policies require applicants to undertake a criminal records screening and integrity checking as part of the appointment process. As well as undertaking a criminal record screening and integrity checking, you may also be required to undertake a working with children check (if required for the role) and a pre-employment health assessment. We may ask referees to comment on your integrity and past demonstration of ethical behaviour. Please note that adverse information does not necessarily disqualify an applicant but will be considered as part of the appointment process.
This vacancy is subject to a Western Australian Working With Children (WWC) Check. For further information please refer to the WWC website at: https://workingwithchildren.wa.gov.au
This is a recruitment pool for Permanent Full Time / Part Time, Fixed Term Full Time / Part Time and Casual appointments with the possibility of extensions and/or permanency.
Suitable applicants will be placed in a pool from which appointments may be made when similar vacancies occur. Appointments may be made from this pool until 30/10/2026.
South Metropolitan Health Service will only accept applications that are lodged with the express permission of the applicant and containing all necessary information, including personal contact details. We will not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies and/or search firms and we will not pay fees to any such organisation unless arranged with the provider prior to advertising a vacancy.
Lodgement is system generated. Any submissions on, or after, 4:00pm on the closing date will not be accepted.
LATE OR EMAIL APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
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