Trainee - Stage 1
Remuneration: -
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM25909
Position Tagline
To provide Emergency Medicine services to patients who present to Canterbury Hospital under supervision to ensure quality health care for the local community, while developing expertise in Emergency Medicine in a complex clinical environment.
Where you'll be working
Canterbury Hospital is a 215-bed metropolitan acute general hospital, providing services in Emergency Medicine, General Surgery and Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care. Canterbury Hospital caters for a local population of 220,000 people. The Canterbury area is home to a culturally and linguistically diverse community. Just under half (48%) of Canterbury residents were born overseas and just under half (47%) reported Chinese, Lebanese or Greek ancestry. Many residents of the Canterbury community have arrived in Australia relatively recently. Just fewer than 67% of Canterbury residents do not speak English at home which is almost three times higher than the NSW average (22%). The predominant languages spoken are Arabic, Greek, Mandarin, Bengali, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Urdu, Italian, Indonesian, Korean and Nepali. On average, around one third (33%) of Mandarin, Korean, Cantonese and Vietnamese speakers do not speak English well or at all. The majority of humanitarian arrivals that have settled in Sydney Local Health District, have done so in the Canterbury area. Most arrived from Afghanistan, although a significant number of Burmese and Rohingyan refugees have also settled in the area. Humanitarian arrivals often have complex health problems related to either their prior limited access to healthcare and/or their individual experiences of persecution or trauma. Aboriginal people make up 1.1% of the district’s population, compared with 2.9% of the state’s population.
Population projections indicate a 39% increase in population between 2016 and 2031
What you'll be doing
Trainees undertaking the care of medical patients should ensure that they operate within their own level of expertise within a collaborative clinical care model and to seek consultation with their colleagues when appropriate. Trainees work under a level of supervision according to their competence in the following activities:
- Taking a leadership role in coordinating the admission, assessment, management, and discharge planning of patients
- Have direct clinical involvement in the care of all patients, including the critically ill
- Providing clinical supervision to junior medical staff
- Providing overall medical management and support for the Emergency Department in conjunction with senior nursing staff
- Communicating assessment and management decisions to other staff involved in the patient's care
- Communicating with the patient / family regarding the patient's condition and management plans
- Coordinating diagnostic tests and consultations with other medical specialists
- Arranging the patient discharge process and liaising with local medical officers and community based care modalities for optimal post discharge care
- Be actively involved in teaching, research and quality programs
- Role modelling leadership within the Emergency Department
Sydney Local Health District’s vision incorporates NSW Health Core Values and a commitment to equity, health improvement, timeliness and efficiency, recognising that evidence-based service delivery requires highly skilled and valued staff supported by research, education and state-of-the-art technologies.
Our strategic priority under this vision is our commitment to excellence in Patient and Family Centre Care. Staff are supported to ensure patients, their families and carers are considered as partners in care to achieve optimal patient outcomes and best possible healthcare experience.
- Qualifications and experience commensurate with the Essential Requirements for the role. Demonstrated ability to work with appropriate independence, commensurate with a level of a Specialist Trainee, within a supervised complex clinical environment.
- Selected into Fellowship training or has applied for Fellowship training to the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) (NB: Must provide evidence of either selection or application into Fellowship training).
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the planning, delivery and coordination of patient care.
- Demonstrated high level written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate effectively and respectfully with patients, family members and other members of the health care team.
- Demonstrated good organisational and time management skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a complex environment.
- Demonstrated commitment to quality improvement, patient safety and risk management.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and commitment to self-education. Previous experience in and willingness to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and training.
- Willingness to work at facilities within the Network to deliver patient care and to participate in a 24 hour shift work roster.
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For role related queries or questions contact Laura Hutchinson on Laura.Hutchinson@health.nsw.gov.au
Applications Close: 30, June 2025
