Advanced Trainee

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

• Dr Simone Strasser 
  Phone: (02) 9565 6125
  Email: Simone.Strasser@health.nsw.gov.au

Westmead Hospital

• Dr Rajni Tiwari
  Phone: (02) 8850 8100
  Email: rajni.tiwari@health.nsw.gov.au
  

Clinical responsibilities:  
•    Inpatient care
•    Consultation service
•    Out-patient clinics

On- call responsibilities:

•    ED referrals for new admissions, complications in ward patients.
•    Weekend ward rounds: general gastroenterology patients and/or transplant patients (where applicable).
•    Organise inter-hospital transfer of transplant patients, fulminant liver failure patients and bleeding patients from regional centres.
•    Endoscopy lists. 
•    Fibroscan clinics.
•    Co-ordination of multi-disciplinary meetings. 

Research responsibilities:

•    Participate in clinical trials as sub-investigator, reviewing patients as required. 
•    Perform clinical research projects, with the generation of at least one abstract of work at a level that would result in the work being presented at a National or International Meeting.
•    Self-directed study.
•    Attendance at conferences and relevant meetings where possible. Ambulatory care clinics.

Supervision and training:
•    Supervise junior medical staff.
•    Train JMOs in procedures such as abdominal paracentesis and thoracocentesis.
•    Supervise and tutor medical students in their gastroenterology rotations:

Administration:

•    Contribute to the preparation of morbidity and mortality audits. 
•    Assist consultants in co-ordinating endoscopy lists.
•    Organise, attend and participate in journal clubs, departmental meetings, radiology meetings, histopathology meetings.
•    Prepare the on-call roster for the advanced trainees, if necessary.

Quality improvement:
•    The advanced trainee is required to assist and participate in the development and implementation of Quality Activities, ensure timely discharge and will have responsibility for discharge coding. He/she will be involved in the provision of departmental statistics, in keeping with that of the Department.

Other key responsibilities:
•    The Hospital provides the trainee with an email account. It is the trainee’s responsibility to check their email as this is how Hospital Administration and Senior Staff will be communicating relevant information on a daily basis.
•    When on-call the Advanced Trainee must be available and contactable at all times.

Your application:

•    HealthShare NSW will undertake the preference match for this position.
•    Preference forms will be emailed to those candidates successful for interview. 
•    Candidates must complete and return form prior to interview. 
•    Candidates have to opportunity to amend preference forms up to midnight on the day of interview.
•    Applicants much complete all questions and criteria in the online application form. 
•    NSW health is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal People and people from racial, ethnic or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability.