AddressCompany description:
As an organisation we have a clear focus on how we service and partner with our community, including our strategy of helping the community stay well when at home. Our reputation of community minded, inclusive and progressive is matched to none.
Job description:
The Role: Paediatric Kilmore Community Fellow - 2025.
Come and join the Paediatric team at Northern Health, and gain fantastic exposure to Community Paediatric medicine in one of Melbourne's rapidly growing northern growth corridor. Northern Health provides healthcare to a population of over 580,000 people and in the Paediatric Department we care for general paediatric medical and neonatal patients.
The inpatient service includes:
- A very busy Paediatric Emergency Department that sees approximately 25,000 Paediatric patients per year with designated Paediatric emergency medicine consultant supervision. The Paediatric ED is accredited for PEM training and for acute training under RACP Advanced General Paediatric stream
- A Neonatal Unit with twenty one cots, which provides high dependency neonatal care with a level five capability. There is always a neonatologist covering, and we manage TPN, chest drainage and ROP screening. There are more than 3,600 infants born annually by the obstetric service
- A Children's Unit containing twenty two beds (which includes two Paediatric Short Stay Unit beds) and caters for paediatric medical and paediatric surgical patients. Prior to COVID, there were 2 paediatric HDU beds located in the adult ICU
Northern Health is committed to medical education & training through the Teaching, Training & Research Precinct - a joint venture with The University of Melbourne, La Trobe University and the Victorian and Commonwealth Governments.
This is an exciting opportunity to have 2 Paediatric Community Fellows to work in an outreach service to the outer Northern suburbs of Melbourne. Clinics will be based predominantly at Kilmore District Health Service, in outreach clinics with Nexus Health and Mitchell Shire MCHN to surrounding peripheral sites as well as Craigieburn Health Service.
The successful applicants will partake in clinics such as:
- Northern Autism Spectrum Disorder Assessment Clinics (NASDAC)
- a multidisciplinary service (in conjunction with speech therapists, occupational therapists and psychologists) for ADOS assessments - Multi-Disciplinary Assessment Clinics (MDAC)
- a multidisciplinary service (in conjunction with speech therapists, occupational therapists and psychologists) for general developmental assessments - Community Out of Home care Clinics
- Developmental & Behavioural clinics
- General Paediatric Clinics
Trainees will be provided both onsite supervision as well as sufficient remote supervision for independent clinical practice. Significant non clinical time is rostered to allow for education and training, as well weekly opportunity to join the Royal Children's Hospital Community and Child Health (CCCH) Education program.
Applicants should be suitably qualified to perform at the level of a senior paediatric registrar. The applicant should have, at a minimum, completed Basic Training through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, successfully completed the FRACP written and clinical examination (or equivalent). Excellent communication skills are essential. Preference will be given to applicants who are second or third year advanced trainees in general paediatrics, and those with a particular interest in working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Applicants must be currently registered with AHPRA and hold medical indemnity insurance
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Medical registration with the Medical Board of Australia under the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Current National Police and Working with Children History Check
- Enrolled as an Advanced Paediatric training through RACP under either Gernal Paediatric or Community Paediatric SAC
- The Staff Immunisation Questionnaire must be completed by all new employees as part of the mandatory on-boarding process. New employees are not permitted to undertake any activity that requires patient contact prior to clearance by the Staff Immunisation Nurses; this also includes evidence of having the Flu vaccination on a yearly basis. New employees with contra-indications to vaccinations or who decline vaccination are required to attend a face to face consultation with the Immunisation Nurses for appropriate documentation of their contraindications or declination. This must be completed PRIOR to commencing any work with Northern Health.
For further details, please refer to the Position Description or alternatively contact: Dr David Tran Director of Women's and Children's via ***********@nh.org.au
Applications close 28 July 2024.
