Transcript from ‘Hear from our staff about working at Babinda Multi-Purpose Health Service’
[Upbeat background music plays while drone footage of the town of Babinda and the facility is shown]
>> Dr Renee Cremen, Director of Medical Services: Hi, welcome to Babinda Multi-Purpose Health Service. We're a general practice, emergency department, hospital, and residential aged care facility all under the one roof.
Here at Babinda Multi-Purpose Health Service, we can meet your rural generalist training requirements and we're the only general practice training facility accredited within the Cairns and Hinterland district.
We are excited to welcome you to come and see what Babinda could offer you for your training requirements, whether it's medical, nursing, or allied health.
>> Hayley Marano, Occupational Therapist: There's so many great parts about working in Babinda. I like the variety. Obviously, it's a really diverse setting. You get exposed to lots of rural generalist skills.
>> Dr Carolyn Belonogoff, Rural Generalist Registrar: I like the diversity of the work that I get to do. I have patients who I see in the clinic and then if they show up on the other end at ED, I know their background and history. So, it's very convenient having the flexibility of managing a patient that you know well because you've managed them from the primary care aspect.
>> Dr Benjamin Gladwin, Provisional Senior Medical Officer: I've come down to Babinda because it's a training facility for ACRRM and it gives me an opportunity to do some rural and remote medicine in a place that is a small community. I get GP exposure and I get emergency department exposure and hospital exposure all in one place.
>> Dr Maddison Giudice, Medical Intern: I found Babinda an amazing place to start my internship. The doctors, the nurses, the allied health staff, all of the admin staff have been really welcoming and keen to teach. I love that there's a variety of presentations that I can get to work in the ward, go to the ED,and then do clinic all in the same day.
>> Teisha Clark, Registered Nurse: I enjoy working across a multidisciplinary team at Babinda Hospital. I get to work with doctors, nurses, allied health.
>> Samantha Evans, A/Clinical Nurse: We've got residential aged care, the clinic, ED, and of course the acute ward is fantastic. You get to experience all those different people, all the different cases, medically and socially of course. Babinda is a very social community and a lot of our patients and residents are locals.
>> Dr Jack De Guingand, Senior Medical Officer: I guess a typical week at Babinda would, you know, I might work Monday and Tuesday in the clinic. Then I might get a handover from the other SMO on the ward and do the on-call that evening, and then Tuesday night on-call. I'd then do Wednesday through the day in the hospital. Maybe another on-call, and then Friday might be a final day in the hospital, or I might be back in the clinic. So, I think that roster works really well and it's really flexible.
We've got a, you know, a small team but a dynamic team and we're really supportive of each other.
>> Teisha Clark, Registered Nurse: Babinda Hospital support you in trying to further your career. So, we have regular intervention with our management about our career goals and plans and they're very supportive in trying to help you achieve those goals.
>> Dr Jack De Guingand, Senior Medical Officer: There’s lots of continuing education here. At Babinda I've continued to work as a registrar through my ACRRM training. I've done my GP MCQ and my viva exams, my StAMPS, which have been really well supported by Babinda. I've had, been able to get leave, when I needed to for my exams and for study.
>> Zenobia Peralta, A/Clinical Nurse: Working in Babinda is like working with family.
>> Samantha Evans, A/Clinical Nurse: The friendliness of the staff across the board, operational, nursing, medical, everybody's very welcoming.
>> Melanie Lyons, Physiotherapist: The relationships that you build with both the community, the medical team, the nursing team, the allied health team is just such a wonderful experience, and everyone's been really supportive, of me during my time here.
>> Teisha Clark, Registered Nurse: I also enjoy how flexible it is having a young family, so I've got really supportive management who are happy to accommodate and a really supportive team who support me with that as well.
>> Brodie Campbell, 6th Year Medical Student: This area is so nice, there's lots of things to do on the weekend. If you don't mind a bit of rain and getting a bit wet, there's some really great walks around.
>> Melanie Lyons, Physiotherapist: There's definitely some beautiful walks and hikes around the area. There's the Pyramid, Behana Gorge, Nandroya Falls.
>> Dr Thorsten (Todd) Stein, Senior Medical Officer: I bush walk, I do a bit of running, I do a bit of cycling and I spend time with the family.
>> Dr Benjamin Gladwin, Provisional Senior Medical Officer: Oh, it's beautiful up here. I can't imagine you'd want to live anywhere else really. Like you get all the great parts about the tropics. You're close to the coast, you're near to the barrier reef, you know, there's thousands of things to do on the weekend, walks, the Babinda Boulders are just down the road. I mean, the other things are the community stuff, like the local restaurants are all owned by people who you see in clinic. It's really easy to integrate into a place that's that small and that close.
>> Dr Renee Cremen, Director of Medical Services: Now that you've heard from our team, if you're interested in pursuing your career here with us at Babinda, we look forward to you reaching out by phone or arranging to come and have a visit and see our facility in person.
[Music ends with vision panning out from the town of Babinda]
[Text on screen] Scan here to view the CHHHS Careers page for further information with QR code and Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service logo on screen.
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Last updated: July 2024