Staff Specialist - Intensive Care Unit

#523094 Staff Specialist - Intensive Care

Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Calvary Mater Newcastle

Fixed-Term Part-Time

• Fixed-Term (12 months) Part-Time (30 hours per week).
• Classification: Staff Specialist Level 4 Year 1-5 (Level election is optional). 
• Remuneration: $273,309.00-$404,722.00 per annum, pro-rata for fractional appointments. 

About the role

We are seeking Staff Specialists who have ICU experience, excellent communication skills and a desire to plan and deliver high quality patient centered care. Our Intensivists are required to utilise their advanced knowledge and clinical skills to provide complex and advanced care to critically ill patients. 

Within your role you will provide safe, compassionate person-centered care within ICU, ensuring care is delivered in collaboration with patients/families/carers and a multidisciplinary team. you will demonstrate flexibility that meets the changing needs of the patient and of the unit. 

Key Responsibilities

Provide supervision, support and education to Intensive Care junior medical staff.

• Provide Intensive Care Services to patients within the Intensive Care Unit and hospital wards.
• Provide quality Intensive Care services including clinical leadership and operational management.
• Complement the clinical, teaching, training and research activities of the Hunter New England Intensive Care Stream.
• Provide Rapid Response Team service to the patients, staff and visitors on the CMN campus building, and to Mater Mental Health.
• Participation in the Intensive Care Staff specialist roster including out-of-hour’s roster commitments in a one-in-five on-call rostering pattern.
• To actively support research within CMN Intensive Care services and as part of Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Clinical Trials Group (CTG).

What you bring 

• Demonstrated capacity for clinical leadership and willingness to lead and participate in clinical research.
• Commitment to teaching and supervision of students, trainees and staff including medical, nursing and allied health.
• Demonstrated competence and experience in providing high quality, compassionate medical care within an Intensive Care Unit.
• Demonstrated commitment to maintaining personal knowledge and skills by participating in continuing education and professional standards programs.
• A Primary Medical degree registrable with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM).
• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead the multidisciplinary team whilst demonstrating excellent verbal and written communication skills and proficiency in periods of high activity.
• Understanding of the principles of clinical governance to promote quality and safety in health care, including experience in audit and incident investigation and commitment to evidence based best practice.

For further information please contact Dr Menaka Perumbuli Achchige, Director of Intensive Care at Menaka.PerumbuliAchchige@calvarymater.org.au or (02) 401 43761.

WHY JOIN US?

CMN is an Affiliated Health Organisation providing services to both public and private patients primarily from the Hunter New England area. Current employees of NSW Health can request to have various leave entitlement balances transferred to CMN on commencement. Leave types may include but not limited to Long Service Leave, Annual Leave and Sick Leave. Applicants are encouraged to discuss this with the Convenor for further information. Working at CMN gives you access to a great range of benefits:

• Gender Neutral parental leave
• Superannuation contributions
• ADO's each month (for full-time employees)
• Novated leasing available for eligible employees
• 4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part-time employees)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
• Generous Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay!

HOW DO YOU APPLY?

• Click ‘Apply for Job’ and follow the prompts. As part of your application, you will be asked to:
• Create a profile in our Calvary People Platform (if you are not an existing user)
• Attach a current resume.
• Provide a written response to four (4) selection criteria.
• Cover letters are optional (1-2 pages max.)

Please note: Only the criteria in the application needs to be addressed, however you’ll be assessed against the full list of Essential Criteria located within the attached Position Description.

As we serve the community across Home, Virtual and Residential Aged Care, Retirement Living and Hospitals, one thing sets us apart. Care from the heart. If this sounds like you, apply for a role with Calvary today.

Please note the following:

• As part of the application process, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which may include, but is not limited to reference checks, work rights, criminal history check, WWCC checks, and a health evaluation to ensure suitability for the role.
• You will be required to provide evidence of immunisation as required for your role including COVID-19, influenza, tuberculosis screening, hepatitis, diphtheria, tetanus, varicella.