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 Craigieburn 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.
The Community Fellow position is an Advanced Paediatric Training position that covers the specialist outpatient clinics at Craigieburn Health Service. Here, the trainee will care for a wide variety of culturally and linguistically diverse communities, with a high proportion of socio-economically disadvantaged families. The community fellow will participate in consultant supervised clinics including: The Northern Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinic (NASDAC), Refugee health clinic, Developmental and behavioural clinic, General Paediatric clinic and Continence clinic.
The trainee will also be a part of the weekly education sessions held by the Centre for Community and Child Health (CCCH) at RCH on a Wednesday afternoon, and be given rostered non-clinical time.
This position is accredited under the Advanced Training Committee in General Paediatrics and Community Paediatrics for up to 12 months of Community/Developmental medicine. Preference would be sought for 12-month applicants, however we would consider 6-month terms.
Advanced paediatric trainees must apply BOTH through the Northern Success Factors website AND through the VPRAT website (http://www.vprat.org/sites/northern-1).
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)
- Enrolled as an Advanced Paerdiatric training through RACP under either General Paediatric or Community Paediatric SAC
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
