Health Services Regulation 2018
5Applications for appointment as visiting practitioners
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5 Applications for appointment as visiting practitioners
5 Applications for appointment as visiting practitioners
(1) A public health organisation that decides to make available an appointment as a visiting practitioner must advertise the availability of the appointment in at least one of the following—
(a) a newspaper circulating generally in New South Wales,
(b) an employment website affiliated with such a newspaper,
Note.
The employment website www.adzuna.com.au is affiliated with the Sydney Morning Herald and the employment website www.careerone.com.au is affiliated with The Daily Telegraph.
(c) the NSW Health website used for the purpose of advertising employment positions in the NSW Health service.
Note.
The current NSW Health jobs website address is https://nswhealth.erecruit.com.au.
The public health organisation may, in addition, advertise the availability in other ways.
(2) An application for appointment as a visiting practitioner is to be made in writing to the public health organisation concerned and is to include—
(a) a statement setting out, in a manner that satisfies the public health organisation, the clinical privileges sought by the applicant, and
(b) an authority for the medical and dental appointments advisory committee of the public health organisation to obtain information as to the applicant’s past performance as a medical practitioner or dentist, as the case may be.
(3) On receipt of the application, the public health organisation is to refer the application to the advisory committee for advice.
(4) Subclauses (1)–(3) do not apply—
(a) to an appointment as a visiting practitioner that is to be held as part of the duties of a person who is to be or has been appointed to a teaching position at a tertiary institution, or
(b) to an appointment as a visiting practitioner that is to be held by a person for a period of not more than 6 months, or
(c) to any appointment as a visiting practitioner, to the extent that the Health Secretary determines that the provisions of those subclauses are not to apply.