Position Classification: Visiting Medical Officer
Requisition ID: REQ529926
Applications Close: 31 August 2025
Join Our Team at Leeton Health Service: Where Care Meets Community
Apply via eCredential here.
What you'll be doing
As a GP VMO, you will provide high-quality, patient-centered care in a range of general practice services, ensuring that care is safe, effective, and evidence-based. You will play a pivotal role in delivering comprehensive medical services to the local community.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing admitting, consultative, diagnostic, procedural, outpatient, telehealth, and on-call services as required by MLHD.
- Being available during rostered hours and on-call, including clinical handovers, supervision, teaching, and emergency and routine care.
- Offering education and support to clinicians across multiple disciplines, promoting quality education and safe clinical practice.
Where you'll be working
Join us at Leeton Health Service, a fully equipped facility offering 24-hour accident and emergency care, inpatient beds, maternity services, and residential aged care. We also provide access to allied health and GP services, ensuring comprehensive care for our community.
Leeton is a vibrant town nestled in the heart of Australia’s food bowl, the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area in New South Wales. With a population of 12,000, it boasts a thriving local economy with diverse career opportunities in agriculture, food processing, and related industries. The town also offers a broad range of professional, retail, and service-based careers for both newcomers and experienced professionals.
For families, Leeton is an ideal place to live, with excellent education options including three high schools (two of which are boarding schools attracting students from across Southwest NSW), three primary schools, an independent faith-based school, a special needs school, and numerous quality pre-schools.
Learn more about Leeton Health Service here.
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description
For role related queries or questions contact Amy Thorn, Facility Manager at [email protected]
Please Apply Via eCredential here.
A National Police Check will be conducted, NSW Health does not require or accept the Fit2Work Badge offered as an option in eCredential.
Applications via agencies will not be accepted.
MLHD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal People and people from racial, ethnic or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability.
Selection Criteria
- A primary medical degree registrable with AHPRA and Fellowship of the RACGP/ ACRRM/RACP and/or overseas trained specialist pathways.
- Minimum three (3) years post graduate clinical experience. Previous experience in Emergency Medicine, General Practice, Adult Internal Medicine, Paediatrics or Rural Medicine an advantage.
- Knowledge of contemporary clinical management and modern approaches in assessment and management of the broad range of acute and chronic medical conditions. Competence in performing the range of minor urgent procedures commonly undertaken in a rural emergency department including Advanced Life Support and Trauma management
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and provide leadership of a team.
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching, continuing education, and research and quality improvement.
- Availability to participate in an on-call roster and to respond on site within a reasonable time.
- Demonstrated commitment to behaviours which align to the NSW Health CORE values and MLHD Values, goals and strategies.
