AddressPaediatric ICU Specialist
Full-time Permanent
Closes: 03 March 2024
Classification: Specialist Band 1-5 / Senior Specialist
Salary: $188,151 - $254,198 plus superannuation
Position No: 63786 - 02F3E
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 08 February 2024
Contact Officer: Tonia Sydney on tonia.sydney@act.gov.au or 0468 663 425
What can we offer you:
- City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
- Flexible working conditions.
- 11.5% Superannuation.
- VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates.
- Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
About the Role:
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website: CHS website
Medical Staff in the Canberra Health Services enjoy excellent conditions, and our Enterprise Agreement is available at ENTERPRISE AGREEMENTS
The Canberra Hospital is a tertiary referral and trauma hospital with approximately 700 beds, serving the Australian Capital Territory and Southern New South Wales. The hospital provides services in all specialties except major burns, spinal injuries and solid organ transplantation. There are accredited training programs in all major specialties. The hospital is the principal teaching hospital of the Australian National University (ANU) Graduate Medical Program.
The Canberra Hospital ICU is a 39-bed general ICU which routinely cares for medical and surgical patients, including major trauma, cardiac, thoracic and neurosurgery.
In 2024, Canberra Health Services will open a 4-bed Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) within a 48-bed Adult ICU footprint, in the soon to be completed Critical Services Building. The PICU will care for patients who require short term (24-48hrs) support and/or monitoring either as a bridge to recovery or transfer to a higher level PICU. The PICU will work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams including the Paediatric Medicine, Paediatric Surgery, Emergency and Anaesthetics departments.
The PICU Specialist role includes rostered non-clinical time for service development activities including education of medical and nursing staff in caring for highly dependent or critically ill children, in collaboration with the Sydney Children's Hospital Network. The role may also include participation in the adult ICU clinical roster, including on-call, at the direction of the ICU Clinical Director.
The Canberra Hospital maintains strong research links with the ANU, University of Canberra, and the Australian Catholic University. The hospital has well developed post graduate teaching programs. A fully equipped medical library is available on site with a large collection of hard copy and online journals and textbooks.
Candidates may be considered for conjoint positions at the ANU at an academic level commensurate with their qualifications and experience. Academic positions are held for the duration of the candidate's Canberra Health Services employment and will be subject to regular performance reviews. No remuneration is attached to the University position. The employee will be responsible to the University on academic matters and to Canberra Health Services for clinical/ research matters.
For more information in relation to conjoint positions with the ANU please contact Professor Paul Fitzgerald, Director, ANU School of Medicine and Psychology ANU College of Health and Medicine (EA - Cheryl Morse: cheryl.morse@anu.edu.au).
A performance assessment will be conducted within three months following commencement of employment. At least every twelve months, a performance review will be undertaken that includes expectations in respect of management responsibilities, quality improvement and clinical governance activities, post graduate and undergraduate teaching activities, continuing education, research, health outcomes.
Duties:
- Deliver clinical care expected of an experience medical practitioner in the discipline of Intensive Care Medicine and in line with College of Intensive Care Medicine Guidelines.
- Assist in the development of a multidisciplinary team delivering care to critically ill children including those with life-threatening single and multiple organ system failure, those at risk of clinical deterioration, and those requiring resuscitation and/or management in an intensive care or high dependency unit.
- Be proficient in the performance and education of technical skills required to manage the critically ill child.
- In partnership the ICU leadership, contribute to ensuring that the day-to-day operations of the service are effective and meet agreed clinical, strategic, and key performance indicators.
- Communicate with stakeholders across and outside of CHS (paediatricians, paediatric surgeons, NETS and Sydney Children Hospital Network) to enable effective relationships with patients, families, other team members and referring clinicians, and other health services, to facilitate collaborative, multidisciplinary patient care.
- With respect to specific paediatric education and skill training, participate in supervision of the ICU multidisciplinary team including nurses, senior and junior medical officers, and allied health professionals.
- Conduct, supervise, and encourage research and quality assurance activities, in line with the ICU's research and quality assurance program.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.
For more information about this position and how to apply, please click here to see the Position Description.
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Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.
Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind
CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.
Canberra Hospital Expansion Project - CHS is constructing a new critical services building called 'Building 5' which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory's history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.
North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.
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