Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon - Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Te Toka Tumai Auckland, AucklandExcellent opportunity to develop your professional practice at Te Toka Tumai Auckland Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity The Regional Oral and Maxillofacial Service (OMS), part of Surgical Services, wishes to appoint an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and invites suitably qualified candidates to apply.
The OMS provides hospital-based, tertiary-level specialist services to 1.6 million people domiciled within the Metro Auckland and Northland District Health Boards of New Zealand.
In this role, you would provide regional acute, elective, and outpatient specialist OMS services while working within a dedicated team. The acute work is heavily weighted towards facial trauma and odontogenic infections. Elective work includes dento-alveolar, TMJ, orthognathic, and benign pathology. Sub-specialty training and experience in oncological resection and reconstruction would be an advantage.
The OMS service works closely with the Hospital and Specialist Dentistry service and their sub-specialties including oral medicine, restorative prosthodontics, orthodontics, and paediatric dentistry. The successful candidate will share after-hours and weekend on-call work – on a roster basis, for the 24/7 service.
The current OMS team consists of 7 OMS surgeons, 3 dual-qualified College trainee registrars, 1 dual-qualified non-training registrar, 1 dental registrar, 1 dental house officer, and 1 medical house officer. Auckland is a training centre in OMS surgery, accredited by the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (RACDS). You would have the opportunity to participate in registrar training.
This is a permanent position, and we would consider part-time (minimum 2 weekdays per week), which is primarily based at Middlemore Hospital with some sessions at Greenlane Clinical Centre and Auckland City Hospital. Several of our incumbent OMS surgeons work part-time in private practice. There are opportunities in Auckland for the successful candidate to do likewise.
To be eligible for this role, you must hold or be eligible for vocational registration as a specialist Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon with the Medical Council and the Dental Council of New Zealand. You must have an excellent work record, an ability to integrate as part of a team, and a desire for public service.
For more information about this unique opportunity, please contact Mr Chris Sealey, Service Clinical Director, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at ******.
Please submit your application online, outlining your experience and motivation to apply for this role. If you have any queries about accessibility or technical issues with the online process, please contact Kavitha John - Recruitment Consultant at ****** to discuss how we can best support your application.
Employer: Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Te Toka Tumai Auckland
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