General Surgeon

• Hawke’s Bay Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital
• Full-time , 80 hours per fortnight (1.0FTE)
• Permanent, Monday to Friday

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

About the Role

We are seeking a General Surgeon to join our Surgical team on a full-time permanent basis. We are looking for a surgeon who demonstrates a commitment to high quality care, collegiality, teamwork, teaching and leadership in the field. The successful candidate will manage a wide range of General Surgical conditions and be expected to fully participate in the General Surgical on call roster (1:10) and manage acute patients. An experienced endoscopist for both upper and lower gastrointestinal procedures would be an advantage. Interest or post-fellowship training in Trauma or Breast would be an advantage.

About the Team/Service/ Location

The General Surgical and Vascular team is part of a close knit and supportive medical community within the Hawke’s Bay district. Our team is committed to providing a high quality of care to the Hawke’s Bay population. There is a strong collegial attitude, supportive teamwork and active commitments to ongoing education and service improvements. We are a department of ten General Surgeons plus a Vascular Surgeon, working alongside our junior medical staff and clinical nurse specialists. We have four accredited General Surgery SET trainees and eight unaccredited General Surgical registrars along with an acute SHO and team House Surgeons. There are clinical nurse specialists for all the major subspecialties. Our support team includes our departmental secretary and enthusiastic nurses on the wards, clinics and theatre.

Hawke’s Bay Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital is located in Hastings, New Zealand. It is a 400-bed secondary-care public hospital facility, providing acute and elective care for a region of 180,000 people. The hospital offers a full range of surgical, medical, oncology and radiological services. It provides an 11-bed combined Intensive Care Unit/High Dependency Unit staffed by dedicated Intensivists, an Anaesthetic department capable of handling all major cases, and Interventional Radiology support. Medical Oncology is based on site with four Medical Oncologists and planning to commission on site Radiation Oncology is underway. Other surgical specialties on site include: ENT, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Urology, Maxillo-Facial and Obstetrics/Gynaecology. Paediatric Surgery have visiting clinics and lists. Neurosurgery and Plastic Surgery visit for clinics, but provide surgical support and acute cover from the capital.

There are eight operating theatres with recent renovations completed in 2024 to the Perioperative Unit. There is a separate endoscopy services building that was commissioned in 2018 in time to start offering the National Bowel Screening Programme to the Hawke’s Bay population, with two endoscopy rooms operating and the third future-proofed room due to be commissioned for 2025 to meet growing demand. We are currently getting an upgraded outpatient clinic building plus departmental offices constructed on the Hastings campus for the General Surgical and Vascular Departments, due for opening February 2025 to support our growing needs. We also provide outreach clinics to Napier, Wairoa and Waipukurau.

About you

Applicants should have the following qualifications and attributes:

• Be registered, or eligible for registration, with the New Zealand Medical Council as a Specialist General Surgeon and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, or equivalent.
• Hold an approved higher qualification in Surgery, enabling Vocational Registration with the Medical Council of New Zealand
• Competency with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to starting your journey and taking ownership of your learning and growth
• Experience in projects/initiatives which give effect to Te Tiriti principals and frameworks, and the application of Mātauranga Māori and Kaupapa Māori approaches, particularly as they apply in healthcare settings

Working for Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness’. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

• We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us.
• We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

How to Apply

To view the position description click HERE and to apply for the role please click “apply now.” All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal before 11:59pm on 19 December 2024.

If you have any questions about the role, please Liz Ritchie, contact Head of Department by email: liz.ritchie@hbdhb.govt.nz.

Please note, we will be reviewing applications when received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.