Clinical Director Anaesthesia Pain & Perioperative Services

Clinical Director Anaesthetics, Pain & Peri-Operative Service

Permanent Full Time

Join a large regional tertiary referral hospital:

• Grampians Health is a large regional health service with campuses at Ballarat, Horsham, Stawell, Edenhope and Dimboola


• Work within the CBD of Ballarat

Location:

• Ballarat is one of Victoria’s largest fastest growing inland centres and open of Australia’s most liveable cities


• A regional city that offers schools recognised as amongst the best in Victoria, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities.

• Melbourne city centre and Tullamarine (Melbourne) airport is approximately 1 hour from Ballarat with easy access to Geelong, Bendigo and the Western districts and Grampians National Park. Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes.

The Requirements

• AHPRA registration as an anaesthetist, FANZCA certification, experience in providing clinical leadership

About the role

Grampians Health has an opportunity to join the Anaesthetic, Pain and Peri-operative Service and Clinical Director teams.

The Clinical Director team consists of eight Clinical Directors who report to the General Manager of Medical and Clinical Programmes. Each Clinical Director has autonomy and responsibility within their stream to develop sustainably the capability of their stream and work collaboratively with other Clinical Directors to enhance the capability of Grampians Health as a leading regional health service.

The Clinical Director role is responsible for clinical governance within the Anaesthetic, Pain and Peri-operative Service. It is ideally suited to people who are interested in developing clinical leadership, service development and ensuring the deliverance of high quality patient care and registrar training.

As an anaesthetist, you will continue to participate in the anaesthetic roster, usually at a 0.3 fraction.

About you

You will be looking for a rewarding role that offers diversity of opportunity and being part of a leadership team for a leading regional health service.

You will be suitably experienced in Anaesthetics and be seeking a rewarding career through your contribution to a large regional tertiary referral hub and spoke health service with a growing role in teaching and the professional development of both junior and senior staff.

You will be engaged with the professional opportunities that a large and growing regional health service can provide, as well as the being an essential member of the team that achieves high quality care delivered closer to home for regional Victorians.

As a consultant anaesthetist and Clinical Director you will be expected to work within your scope of practice and will be subject to Grampians Health Credentialing Committee’s jurisdiction whist working with us. You will operationally report to the General Manager of Medical and Clinical Programmes and professionally to the Chief Medical Officer.

The Anaesthetic, Pain and Peri-operative Service
The Anaesthetic, Pain and Peri-operative service at Grampians Health are an integral part of the health care treating team and sits within the Hospitals Directorate, providing anaesthetic, peri-operative and pain services across Grampians Health.

Ballarat is a leading regional training centre that provides accredited training for all registrar levels and provisional fellows in anaesthetics and is an accredited site for pain medicine fellowship. 

It provides an acute pain service in Ballarat and Horsham as well as chronic pain services that are supported by a multidisciplinary team including mental health.

It also provides peri-operative clinic services, a level 5 capable adult peri-operative service is supported by general and specialist physicians and a level 4 capable paediatric peri-operative service supported by specialist paediatricians.

About Grampians Health

Grampians Health is part of the Grampians Local Health Service Network, which extends from east of Ballarat to the South Australian border. Grampians Health provides acute and critical care, maternity and paediatric care, hospital in the home, mental health, rehabilitation and aged care across a large geographic area

Grampians Health has over 330 acute beds across its campuses and serves a population in excess of 250,000 Victorians. It conducts over 13000 surgical procedures and 1500 births per year and is supported by the full range of critical care, adult surgical and medical specialties and a well developed Women's and Children's and Mental Health streams.

New facilities are currently being built at Ballarat and will include a new emergency department, an expanded theatre complex and a new hybrid theatre.  Grampians Health - Ballarat is a major training site for the University of Melbourne and Deakin Rural Clinical Schools. 

We are committed to developing a research culture, where research and innovation is recognised, valued and utilised; where our staff undertake high quality health service-relevant research and we maintain systems that support ethical research and innovation. Grampians Health Ballarat has the largest clinical trials unit in Western Victoria and has over 100 Phase IB, II, III, IV clinical trials open.

A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Our communities are diverse – as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.

Grampians Health Culture & Benefits

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset.  We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.

• Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities


• Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays


• Discounted on-site parking


• Access to discounted health club membership


• Staff rewards and recognition programs

How to apply

Click APPLY or contact If you have any further enquiries, please contact IMS Administration 03 5320 4322 for a confidential discussion with the General Manager of Clinical and Medical Programmes.

All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask.  Additional PPE requirements are role dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.