Advanced Trainee
Remuneration: 110,986.00 - 139,187.00
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM26273
Where you'll be working
Westmead Hospital is a key facility of one of Australia’s largest major health and medical research precincts and is the principal referral hospital for Western Sydney Local Health District providing district level health services to Parramatta, Holroyd and The Hills Shire LGAs including tertiary and quaternary services to greater Western Sydney, greater metropolitan Sydney, rural NSW and other states. The Westmead Health Precinct currently under development is envisaged to be the largest hospital building project undertaken in Western Sydney and will transform the iconic but ageing Westmead Hospital into an innovative, contemporary, and integrated centre that will continue to deliver high quality healthcare and expand the education, health, and research capability of the area.
Westmead Hospital is a leading centre of research, training and specialisation in all fields of Medicine and Dentistry, providing services in Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Kidney and Pancreas transplantation, Cancer Care, Obstetrics and Gynaecology including Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Neonatal Intensive Care, Trauma, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Critical Care, Aged Care and Rehabilitation, Adult Acute Psychiatry (networked with the co-located Cumberland Hospital) as well as other specialised medical and surgical services.
Westmead Hospital is also the principal referral centre for other metropolitan hospitals within the district including Auburn Hospital, Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital.
Over 120 different outpatient clinics for a number of different specialities and services provide ambulatory care to approximately 5,000 attendances per month.
Westmead Hospital is one of Australia’s largest centres for postgraduate training to specialist levels in all fields with over 100 PhD students and other postgraduate students supervised by Westmead Hospital scientists and clinicians. Westmead is home to internationally recognised institutes of health research, the most prominent being the Westmead Millennium Institute. The Westmead Millennium Institute is one of the largest medical research institutes in Australia, conducting research into a wide range of human disorders affecting both adults and children, including infectious and immune diseases, cancer and leukaemia, liver and metabolic diseases, eye and brain related disorders and heart and respiratory disorders.
What you'll be doing
The primary purpose of this role is to assist in care of neurology inpatients with movement disorders.
To provide the following medical services (under supervision):
Weekly Monday Movement Disorder Meeting.
Weekly Huntington’s Disease Clinic.
Weekly Huntington’s Disease Multidisciplinary Care Meeting.
Weekly Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic.
Weekly Botulinum Toxin Injection Clinics.
Weekly reporting on tremor and other neurophysiological studies.
Participation in Clinical Drug Trials in Parkinson’s disease and other Movement Disorders.
Designing and implementing research projects in Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s Disease or other movement disorders.
Weekly Nerve Conduction/Electromyography Clinic (as required by Supervisor).
Weekly EEG reporting (as required by Supervisor).
Presentations at local, Sydney-wide and national meetings related to movement disorders.
Participation in after-hours thrombolysis roster.
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia.
- Knowledge of general clinical neurology
- Must have experienced neurology history, examination and investigations
- Positive attitude to clinical work, to team work with medical staff, nursing staff and allied health workers.
- Commitment to basic, applied or clinical research in the area of clinical movement disorders
- Must possess high level interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
- Must have completed a minimum of two post graduate years training.
- Position is suitable for someone about to commence or who has commenced Advanced Training with RACP. Appropriately trained overseas candidates may be considered
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For role related queries or questions contact Dr Victor Fung on victor.fung@health.nsw.gov.au
Applications Close: 05, August 2025
