The Application Process
List Of Current Opportunities
Aged Care Physician | TIMARU HOSPITAL
You'll participate in an acute medical on-call roster based on a 1 in 6 frequency thereby allowing you to maintain your general medical skills. You'll also conduct regular outpatient clinics, and work in our purpose-built 20-bed Assessment Treatment & Rehabilitation Ward within a multidisciplinary team (including one other age care physician) renowned for supporting its patients to achieve the best outcomes relevant to their individual stage of life.
Anaesthetist | Timaru and Bidwill Hospitals
The Anaesthetic Department is presently staffed by seven specialist anaesthetists servicing theatre, an obstetric unit (averaging 500 deliveries annually) and a general intensive care unit. The department also has an acute pain service and long established chronic pain unit. You're potentially welcome to join the roster providing anaesthetic services to the private Bidwill Hospital.
Emergency Physician | Timaru Hospital
With approximately 17,000 attendances each year our E.D. is staffed by experienced E.D. nurses and physicians working rostered shifts. E.D. roster cover will include weekend and evening work. E.D. cover is provided between 0800 and 2300 hours daily. Two E.D. physicians overlap between 1300 and 1800 hours. Being a smaller, general hospital it's inevitable you'll have broadly based experience and be comfortable dealing with the widest range of clinical presentations (with the backup support of on-call specialist senior clinical staff when necessary).
General Physician | Timaru Hospital
As with any area of our operation, you'll be joining a team of highly skilled professionals motivated to make a difference. With no registrars we have junior doctors on board who are inspired to learn, and you're just one they will work closely with. An on-call commitment on a 1 in 6 frequency will be required as will conducting outpatient clinics, while based predominantly within our 24-bed General Medical Ward working closely with four other physicians. We are particularly interested to hear from you if your sub-specialty interest includes either respiratory medicine, or gastroenterology (but we would definitely consider other sub-specialty areas as well).
Ophthalmologist | Timaru Eye Clinic
You'll join one other ophthalmologist in this busy private practice. While the majority of work undertaken will be within private practice this post includes a 2-tenths appointment for clinical work within the public health system at Timaru Hospital. Timaru Eye Clinic (www.eyetech.co.nz) is well equipped for general ophthalmology, is ISO 9000 accredited and has a ‘paperless' work environment with an information system developed by the clinic, now used extensively throughout Australasia. The clinic has a unique funding structure with a uniprice policy for private and public sectors.
Urologist | Timaru Hospital
Given our size we have just one Urologist on staff. You'll be part of a surgical team and well supported by General Surgeons. The Department will be yours to take ownership of, including overseeing the purchase of new equipment. There is immense scope to develop and maintain collegial relationship regionally and hence avoid isolation. This is an exciting opportunity to make your individual mark on this role, and to become well known in the local community.
