Trainee - Unaccredited Position

Employment Type: Temporary - Various
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM25830

Role: Trainee – Unaccredited – Surgical Skills

Join the Eastern and Greater Southern Surgical Skills Training Network (EGSSSTN) – Prince of Wales Hospital!

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 General Surgery Surgical Skills Trainee - Unaccredited Position role will be based at Prince of Wales Hospital (alma mater) and its affiliated training rotations:

• General Surgery Nights/Relief, Prince of Wales Hospital (in Prince of Wales Network hospitals and SET trainee relief as required in the Prince of Wales Hospital/Bankstown General Surgery SET Network)
• Cardiothoracic Surgery, POWH
• General Surgery, Dubbo Base Hospital
• General Surgery, Griffith Base Hospital
• General Surgery, Bega - South East Regional Hospital

Prince of Wales Hospital is a 440-bed tertiary referral centre affiliated with the University of NSW. It is situated on Randwick Campus with Sydney Children's Hospital, the Royal Hospital for Women and the Prince of Wales Private Hospital. The hospital has one of NSW's two spinal units and the only public hyperbaric unit. A range of services included aged and community health, anaesthesia, intensive care, emergency medicine, medical imaging, medicine, mental health, spinal medicine and surgery is provided to the community and to patients throughout NSW.

Griffith Base Hospital is a 90-bed facility with 2 well-equipped operating theatres. There is general surgical, general medical, paediatric and obstetric emphasis. The hospital is also serviced with a 24hr Emergency Department, ICU/CCU and an extensive Outpatient Clinic, and a rehabilitation and pain service. Diagnostic and support services within the hospital include Radiology (public and private), Pathology, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy and Blood Bank. The hospital performs approximately 3,000 operations per annum. Trainees who undertake the General Surgery rotation at Griffith Base Hospital enjoy time in theatre with exposure to a large amount of laparoscopic work.

Bega - South East Regional Hospital services the area from Mallacoota to Batemans Bay. Emergency department bays, medical and surgical inpatient beds, a maternity unit, a paediatric unit, a critical care unit, operating theatres including day surgery, renal dialysis chairs, oncology area, Hospital in the Home and separate mental health unit are the services provided. A sub-acute rehabilitation unit recently opened.

Dubbo Base Hospital is a major rural referral facility situated on the edge of the western plains of outback Australia. It is a rapidly growing hospital which is part of Dubbo Health Service providing critical care, specialist medical inpatient and outpatient services, surgery, mental health and many specialised allied health and medical outreach services to a catchment population of approximately 150,000 people. Dubbo Health Service is in the Western NSW Local Health District.

Note: this Job Advertisement relates to the EGSSSTN - Prince of Wales Hospital Network. Please refer to the EGSSSTN - St Vincent's Network for adverts for STVH SRMO and UR positions. 

What you'll be doing

The primary purpose of this role is to provide effective clinical management of surgical patients in the clinical Eastern and Greater Southern Surgical Skills Network – Prince of Wales Hospital.

This role will be carried out under appropriate supervision, whilst developing expertise in medical practice, in a complex clinical environment. The unaccredited trainee is the key person who works closely with all members of a multi-disciplinary team and deals with matters of an urgent or sensitive nature, whilst exercising discretion, sensitivity and maintaining confidentiality.

Decision making and supervision will be at the appropriate level according to the doctor’s skills, knowledge and experience. The unaccredited trainee will be expected to adopt a progressively more independent approach to patient management according to their experience, under the guidance of and at the discretion of the appropriate Attending Medical Officer (AMO). All patients managed within the hospitals of the health service are under the direct care of a specialist medical practitioner. All decisions regarding their care are to be clearly communicated with the specialist responsible for that care.

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.