Specialist Anaesthetists

Specialist Anaesthetists

About Latrobe Regional Health Latrobe Regional Health (LRH) is Gippsland’s premier referral and trauma centre, located in Traralgon, VIC. We provide a comprehensive range of medical services, including elective surgery, emergency care, aged care, obstetrics, mental health, pharmacy, rehabilitation, and medical and radiation oncology. Our department has fostered an innovative partnership with Alfred Health, a leading tertiary health service in Victoria.

Specialist Vacancies

Anaesthetist, Head of Acute Pain Lead our Acute Pain Service, ensuring timely, efficient, and high-quality patient care. You’ll attend preadmission clinics, preoperative assessments, theatre sessions, post-surgical care, and delivery suite as rostered. You’ll also participate in setting clinical standards within the department, maintain accurate patient records, assist in developing protocols, and ensure prompt communication with other clinicians. 

Anaesthetist, Head of Perioperative As an integral part of our department, you’ll provide clinical expertise in anaesthesia and perioperative medicine, supervise junior staff, and support LRH’s quality initiatives, teaching, research, and clinical governance programs. You’ll lead preadmission clinics, attend preoperative assessments, theatre sessions, post-surgical care, and delivery suite as rostered. 

Anaesthetist, Supervisor of Training In this role, you’ll attend preadmission clinics, preoperative assessments, theatre sessions, post-surgical care, and delivery suite as rostered. You’ll ensure timely, efficient, and high-quality patient care, maintain best practice, recognise consumer diversity, maintain accurate patient records, assist in developing protocols, use resources responsibly, and ensure prompt communication with other clinicians.

Fractional Anaesthetist We’re seeking anaesthetists to deliver high-quality patient care, mentor junior staff, and support quality initiatives. You’ll provide expert anaesthesia services, engage in teaching and research, and uphold LRH’s core values. Your responsibilities will include preadmission clinics, preoperative assessments, theatre sessions, post-surgical care, and on-call rotations. 

Requirements

Essential:

• Legally qualified medical practitioners, registered or registrable with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) without conditions, undertakings, or reprimands that could impact on their clinical practice 
• Fellowship of the Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (or eligible for fellowship via the recognition of equivalent training pathway) 
• Meets LRH requirements for credentialing and scope of practice in anaesthesia
• Demonstrable relevant knowledge and experience in anaesthesia
• Received three (3) doses of COVID-19 Vaccination

Desirable:

• Experience in teaching and research 
• Experience in Obstetric anaesthesia, paediatric anaesthesia, and trauma 
• Experience outside the operating suite (e.g. ICU)

Why Relocate to Gippsland, Victoria? 

Just two hours’ drive from the city of Melbourne, the region of Gippsland features urban centres, rural lifestyles, snow-capped mountains, forests and a magnificent coastline. You could be surfing the breaks off the 90-mile beach, skiing the slopes of Mount Hotham or hiking through ancient native forests. All this in an area the size of the Netherlands.

So that’s your new lifestyle taken care of. Now, what about a career caring for a population of 300,000 at Gippsland’s largest provider of specialist health services? Latrobe Regional Health (you can call us LRH) prides itself on providing a safe, supportive environment for you to learn, develop and flourish.

For more information about this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to contact Simon Hendel at ********@alfred.org.au for a confidential discussion.

Explore all the great things happening at LRH – www.lrh.com.au and take the next step on your career journey by submitting your application for this and other roles here - https://lrh.mercury.com.au

Diversity and Inclusion

We actively embrace workforce diversity, equity and inclusion, and encourage applications from across our community, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.  LRH’s Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officer is available to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent applicants and can be contacted on (03) 5173 8***.

IMPORTANT:  All staff employed in the healthcare sector are required to be vaccinated for 3 COVID-19 doses.