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 Role

In this role, the successful applicant will:

• Be responsible for the management of patients attending the ENT Outpatient Department, under the supervision and guidance of the Senior Medical Officers / Visiting Medical Officer Consultants.
• Interview, examine, carry out procedures and arrange appropriate investigations and treatment of ENT patients, and to ensure any such actions are properly documented.
• Seek opportunities within emerging healthcare planning to improve the continuity of care and patient journey.
• Implement and support clinical; models of care and patient safety as required.
• Perform duties as determined by the Director of ENT surgery.
• Attend and participate in clinical meetings undertaken by the ENT Department when required.
• Participate in the quality assurance activities with the ENT Department.
• Ensure notifications of results and appointment outcomes of all patients are provided to the nominated General Practitioner.
• Ensure referral to appropriate hospital outpatient department or elective surgery waitlist for those patients whose treatment is in the public system.
• Expand and update knowledge related to current developments in the relevant special interest area via a personal commitment to ongoing education.
• Will be involved with the development of outpatient pathways and services.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

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 (PDF)(PDF) ( https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/1108453/hed-1221.pdf )and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70 (PDF)(PDF) ( https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/1108446/qh-pol-486.pdf ))

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ( http://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ).