Location: Masterton, New Zealand Te Whatu Ora Wairararapa provides comprehensive health services throughout the Wairarapa District, with its base at the Hospital in Masterton. The hospital supplies a range of core services to the community, including general and orthopaedic surgery, general medicine, paediatrics, obstetrics, and mental health services. Other services are currently supplied by visiting specialists, including ophthalmology. The hospital also provides student teaching facilities for the University of Otago. The Wairarapa region offers a fantastic lifestyle, with quality schools, strong community spirit, great beaches and rivers, world-class vineyards, and mountain ranges. This is a place you can call home. The Hospital is based in Masterton, within two hours from Wellington. Daily rail services link Wairarapa with the Wellington region, including the International Airport and Inter-Island ferry connections. Working at Te Whatu Ora Wairarapa, you will become part of an enthusiastic, dynamic, and committed team of health workers providing a modern and innovative approach to healthcare, with the bonus of a healthy balanced lifestyle and opportunities for professional development. Te Whatu Ora Wairarapa provides secondary services for a population of approximately 50,000, offering 24-hour acute and elective care in general and orthopaedic surgery, medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatry, and paediatrics. The hospital operates both public and private theatre sessions covering General Surgery, Anaesthetics, Orthopaedics, Urology, Endoscopy, Gynaecology, and Obstetrics, as well as ENT. Te Whatu Ora Wairarapa has traditionally had an outsourced ophthalmology service; however, we wish to provide greater continuity of services for our community by bringing this service in-house. As a sole practitioner at Wairarapa, you will be committed to ensuring you are linked closely to colleagues within our sub-region to maintain a high level of competence. This is a full-time position, working 80 hours per fortnight. Applicants must be eligible for Vocational registration with the New Zealand Medical Council. We are committed to clinical excellence in all disciplines; Senior Medical Staff are encouraged to participate in clinical audits and peer reviews to ensure quality clinical care is provided. If you are interested in this rare opportunity to achieve a great work/life balance and bring your expertise to a community that would benefit greatly from having a full-time Ophthalmologist, please apply online and attach an up-to-date copy of your CV for consideration. #J-18808-Ljbffr