Advanced Trainee - Blacktown, Australia - Western Sydney Local Health District

Western Sydney Local Health District

Verified Company

Blacktown, Australia

3 weeks ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Employment Type:
Temporary Various

Remuneration:
$85, $133,834.00

Hours Per Week: 38

Requisition ID:
CAM17589

Western Sydney Local Health District
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Where you'll be working

About Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital
Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital (BMDH) comprises two networked campus at Blacktown and Mount Druitt in Western Sydney.

Currently hosting over 500 beds and 90,000 patients presenting to the Emergency Departments each year, the Hospital provides a complex range of healthcare in one of the fastest growing geographic populations in NSW.

The completed second stage of the Expansion Project includes expanded capacity for emergency, intensive care, theatres and women's & children's health.

These state-of-the-art facilities together with the transition to a major teaching hospital, will transition BMDH into one of the largest and digitally enabled public hospital in NSW, and one of the nation's leading health facilities.

The Blacktown campus provides a 24-hour emergency service, intensive and high dependency care, specialist adult acute medical and surgical services, a comprehensive cancer centre, obstetrics and newborn care and mental health services.

Ambulatory care services include satellite renal dialysis, chemotherapy, primary care and community health, drug and alcohol and dental clinic services.

The Mount Druitt campus provides a 24-hour emergency service, paediatric medicine, an elective surgical centre of excellence, rehabilitation medicine and palliative care.

Ambulatory care services include oral health and an older adult non-acute mental health service.

BMDH is accredited for training for most specialties and is networked with Westmead Hospital for Surgical Skills Training, Basic Physician Training, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Radiology, Anaesthetics and Mental Health.

Highly competitive rotations have also been established for Critical Care, General Registration (for International Medical Graduates), and vocational General Practice.

BMDH is a major teaching hospital for the Western Sydney University School of Medicine.

This partnership provides opportunities to join a thriving teaching community as well as access to an active, clinical research network and a multitude of research opportunities.

We are committed to enriching our workplace culture to deliver high quality, safe and reliable health care, and support every individual in our organisation in our pursuit of world class health care for our patients and their families and carers.

We recognise a successful training program balances broad clinical experience with high impact education, personal and professional development and personal health and wellbeing.

The BMDH Black Label Program has been established for Doctors in Training as a suite of resources and series of opportunities available to trainees to help launch careers and look after trainee work/life balance and wellbeing.

This includes career mapping, protected teaching time, clinical and research skills development, mentorship and coaching, flexible working arrangements, and a variety of collegial opportunities.

What you'll be doing
The primary purpose of the Advanced Trainee position in Intensive Care Medicine at Blacktown-Mt Druitt Hospital is to manage patients requiring intensive care, those at risk of clinical deterioration requiring intensive care, plus pre
- and post-intensive care evaluation, whilst participating in the core training program of the College of Intensive Care Medicine.

Critically ill patients include patients with life-threatening single and multiple organ system failure, those at risk of clinical deterioration as well as those requiring resuscitation and/or management in an intensive care unit.

Intensive Care Trainees work under the supervision of Specialist Intensive Care Physicians, assisting to manage, diagnose and treat the disturbances associated with severe medical, surgical, obstetric and rarely some paediatric illness and the conditions that cause them.

This may include management of deteriorating and seriously ill patients outside the intensive care unit as well as the intra-hospital transport of critically ill patients.

Qualifications and experience commensurate with the Essential Requirements for the role.
Adept ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, including the sharing of appropriate information internally and externally with key persons or services.
Adept ability to work independently within a supervised complex clinical environment utilising excellent clinical skills, judgment and expertise.
Adept verbal, written and interpersonal skills, with the capacity to vary communication style in line with the understanding of the needs of diverse audiences.
Adept ability to prioritise workloads and display a flexible approach to