Advanced Trainee
Employment Type: Temporary - Various
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM25814
Role: Advanced Trainee – Geriatric 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.
Prince of Wales Hospital and Community Health Services is a major teaching hospital and tertiary referral centre, providing excellent healthcare to south-eastern Sydney and specialist health and medical services to NSW.
We have 450 inpatient beds and almost 3,000 staff. Each year we care for more than 60,000 patients in our Emergency Department and around 50,000 patients are admitted to the inpatient units of our hospital. We also have a busy outpatient service and rural outreach service and provide more than 900,000 occasions of non-admitted patient care each year.
Our hospital is affiliated with various Universities and premier medical teaching facilities which enables our staff to provide excellence in healthcare in conjunction with our commitment to quality clinical teaching and leading medical research.
What you'll be doing
The Advanced Trainee will provide a high standard of clinical care to patients within the Geriatric Medicine Medical Assessment Unit, Acute Care, Geriatric Rehabilitation Teams, Orthogeriatrics, Care of Older People in Surgery, with the Aged Care Services Emergency Team (ASET) in the Emergency Department and in the PostAcute Care Services and community Geriatrics, including an Aboriginal outreach service and Geriatric Outreach Service to RACF residents.
To provide domiciliary assessment and community management of patients in conjunction with the Aged Care Assessment and Rehabilitation Team, General Practitioner and Community Services.
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.
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 or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia in an appropriate registration category
- Successful completion of the examination requirements of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and Viva or similar is preferred and eligible to undertake subspecialty training in this specialty in Australia.
- 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 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 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.
- Demonstrated evidence and commitment of continued professional development and self-education. Demonstrated experience in and willingness to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and training with skills to teach and support Junior Medical Staff.
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For role related queries or questions contact Gideon Caplan on Gideon.Caplan@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
