CONSULTANT ANAESTHETISTS
GREY BASE HOSPITAL
GREYMOUTH

AUTONOMY, PROFESSIONAL SATISFACTION AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE

These full-time positions offer a high degree of autonomy, the chance to gain a broad range of experience and live in a close-knit, friendly community in a scenic area renowned for it’s recreational opportunities.  This position would suit someone wishing to move away from a high pressure environment to one that will enable the reestablishment of work-life balance.

As the base hospital for the West Coast District Health Board, it is a well appointed general hospital with a modern theatre complex providing general, orthopaedic and obstetrics and gynaecology surgical services to a catchment area of 33,000 people. The level of facility is well above that normally expected with its population base. There is a comprehensive road and air retrieval and transfer system, as well as a modern Critical Care Unit supported by our anaesthetic specialists. You’ll carry out pre and post-operative assessment, anaesthesia for surgical lists, other procedures requiring anaesthesia and support for the CCU, ED plus patients requiring transfer, and will work a forty hour week with rostered on-call.

The hospital environment is friendly and supportive and our staff work in small teams with a lot of interdependence. There are supporting services from general surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, physicians and obstetrics and gynaecologists, as well as visiting specialists from the tertiary units in Christchurch. We’re keen to see you continue with training and development and we’ll give you time to meet and work with colleagues at other hospitals.

You will have, or be eligible for, provisional vocational or vocational registration with the Medical Council of New Zealand.

Packages are negotiable, including relocation costs, and several accommodation options are available.