Advanced Trainee
Employment Type: Temporary - Various
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM25855
Role: Advanced Trainee - Addiction Medicine
Where you’ll be working
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
Drug and Alcohol Services at SESLHD provide treatment and support for people experiencing problems related to the use of alcohol, cannabis, stimulants, heroin or prescription medications (e.g. opioid analgesics, benzodiazepines).
Our goal is to improve health, wellbeing and social outcomes for individuals, families and the community, related to drug and alcohol use.
For more information, visit: https://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/services-clinics/directory/drug-and-alcohol-services
What you'll be doing
This position is an accredited Addiction Medicine training position including a possible rotation to the Public Health Unit.
Addiction Medicine: To provide effective clinical management of patients, under appropriate supervision, including patient assessment, making treatment decisions, performing procedures and maintaining adequate medical records; and to develop expertise in medical practice, in a complex clinical environment. This includes supervised general medical management of patients admitted to specialist departments.
Public Health Medicine: Trainees will have the opportunity to spend 6-12 months working within the Public Health Unit. During this time the purpose will be to provide public health management in response to notifiable conditions and outbreaks, in collaboration with teams in the Public Health Unit, and undertake projects that address health protection priorities in SESLHD.
SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates and we have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can provide support. If you have any questions or would like guidance on the recruitment process, please contact the SESLHD Aboriginal Employment Team via email to: SESLHD-AboriginalWorkforce@health.nsw.gov.au.
To apply, kindly submit your resume and respond to the following selection criteria:
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia and at least 3 years postgraduate years of medical practice and enrolled or eligible to enrol in AChAM (RACP), AFPHM (RACP) or GP Training programs
- Demonstrated interest and commitment to further education and practice in addiction medicine or public health medicine
- Demonstrated commitment to harm minimisation philosophies
- Demonstrated experience working with clients with issues related to drug or alcohol use
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the planning, delivery and coordination of patient care
- Demonstrated high level communication skills, including the ability to convey, and adapt verbal and written information to a clinical and non-clinical audience
- Demonstrated commitment to quality improvement, patient safety and risk management.
- Demonstrated high level independent clinical skills and judgement, with the ability to make sound decisions and problem solve with an awareness of limitations and ability to learn independently and modify behaviour accordingly
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For role related queries or questions contact Victoria Hayes on Vicky.Hayes@health.nsw.gov.au
For enquiries about the recruitment system or lodging your application through the recruitment portal, you can contact HealthShare NSW at hsnsw-hcmsystem@health.nsw.gov.au or on 1300 443 966.
Applications Close: 05, August 2025
