Career Medical Officer Geriatric Medicine

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time (01-Feb-2027 up to 2 years)
Remuneration: $117,745 - $147,664
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ683502

What you'll be doing

• To provide an environment of learning to enable the CMO to gain experience in Geriatric Medicine at Nepean Hospital.
• Coordinating and documenting the admission, management and discharge planning of patients seen in the Unit.
• The day-to-day assessment and management of the patients in the Unit, communicating with them and their family the nature of their condition and its treatment. Attend daily case conferencing or as required.
• Communicating and coordinating care with their team, arranging consultation with other staff when CGA of Hip fracture patients presenting to ED.
• All decisions concerning the patient(s) in consultation with their immediate supervisor and team.
• Participating in the virtual aged care service (VACS) with responsibility for the medical management of patients under the service in the community. The community responsibilities will underpin the hospital avoidance strategies and will include medical assessments at home ie includes community or Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACF).
• Continuity of care for the VACS patients between hospital and community to optimise patient recovery and optimise health.
• Providing clinical governance to Community Staff working with the target population.

Where you'll be working

• The Nepean Aged Health Service provides a comprehensive array of services that cover the continuum of care across acute subacute, Geriatric Outreach services, in community including residential aged care.
• 56 and 4 ACRAU/MAUacute beds and 16 geriatric rehabilitation beds and 6 GEM beds.
• Acute services include:
  • ACRAU – Aged Care Rapid Assessment Unit (4 beds)
  • A multidisciplinary ASET team
  • Two Acute Aged Care Wards
  • Orthogeriatric service
  • COPS – Care of Older Person in Surgery

• Subacute services include:

  • Specialty clinics (Cognitive Disorders, General, Comprehensive Falls and Fractures) and PrEPP
  • Springwood 10-15 subacute beds
  • Aged Care Assessment Team
  • VACs program provides Geriatric Outreach service in community and in RACFs via Single Point of Contact
  • Innovative telehealth pilots with RACFs and outlying facilities