General Surgery Fellow (521618)

Job description

The Role: Fulfil several targeted activities to improve the delivery of general surgical services to patients at the Launceston General Hospital (LGH) and to assist in the coordination and training of Surgical Registrars and Resident Medical Officers (RMOs). The role will involve a mix of the following objectives: - The undertaking of approved general surgical outpatient and inpatient services. - Participation in the after-hours Registrar/Consultant on-call rosters. - Provision of leadership and mentoring for surgical registrars and RMOs in training. - Assisting with quality improvement, audit and service improvement within the Department of Surgery. Also dependent upon qualifications and interests of the incumbent, there may be the opportunity to be involved with other teaching and research activities. - Within the four broad position objectives described above, the incumbent will be responsible for the day to day management of private and public inpatients and outpatients within the LGH. There may also be a need to periodically participate in the afterhours cover at the hospital as determined by the Director of Surgery. - Responsible for the day to day management of private and p...