Advanced Trainee
Employment Type: Temporary - Various
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM25851
Role: Advanced Trainee – Public Health
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.
The Public Health Unit provides the full range of health protection services for the people of SESLHD, including follow up and control of notifiable conditions, support and delivery of immunisation programs, and investigation and control of environmental health risks.
Our goal is to protect the health of SESLHD residents from preventable infectious and environmental risks.
For more information, visit: https://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/services-clinics/directory/public-health
What you'll be doing
The primary purpose of the position is to provide comprehensive training for an Advanced Trainee in Public Health Medicine. The position will provide up to 12 months of advanced training in Public Health Medicine towards the Fellowship of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM).
The Advanced Trainee is an operational role to provide public health medical expertise, clinical advice and support to the Public Health Unit teams, including about communicable diseases, immunisation, environmental health, epidemiology and biosecurity. The trainee will also contribute to projects that address health protection priorities in South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD).
The position is based at the SESLHD Public Health Unit (PHU), on the Randwick Hospitals Campus. A rotation to an addiction medicine setting in SESLHD (e.g. the Langton Centre) or another setting within Population and Community Health could be facilitated if desired by the trainee and able to be balanced with other trainee placements and service demands.
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.
Click 'Apply for Job' to submit your resume and respond to the following selection criteria:
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered with the Medical Board of Australia in an appropriate registration category.
- At least three years of postgraduate clinical experience (as per AFPHM training entry requirements) by the time the training position is due to commence; and enrolled or eligible to enrol as an advanced trainee in the AFPHM Advanced Training Program (RACP), or an Overseas Trained Physician (i.e. Specialist International Medical Graduate) who is undertaking Specialist Assessment with the AFPHM and needs a position to complete requirements.
- Demonstrated interest and commitment to further practice in public health medicine, health protection, (including communicable disease control and environmental health), and contributing to public health research and teaching, including the preparation of reports for peer-reviewed publication and conference presentations, and teaching to a variety of audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the planning, delivery and coordination of patient care and service delivery.
- High level communication skills, including the ability to convey and adapt verbal and written information to a clinical and non-clinical audience.
- Demonstrated good organisational and time management skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a complex environment.
- Demonstrated commitment to quality improvement, patient safety and risk management. Demonstrated independent clinical skills and judgement, with the ability to make sound decisions and problem solve with an awareness of limitations.
- A commitment to working to improve the health of priority populations or communities, including groups who experience health inequities or a disproportionate burden of poor health.
Need more information?
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For role related queries or questions contact Vicky Sheppeard on Vicky.Sheppeard@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
