Advanced Trainee

Where you'll be working

Prince of Wales Hospital and Community Health Service are a major teaching hospital and tertiary referral centre, providing excellent healthcare to South Eastern Sydney and specialist health and medical services to NSW.

Prince of Wales Hospital has 450 inpatient beds and almost 3,000 staff. Each year we care for more than 58,000 patients in our Emergency Department and around 50,000 patients are admitted to our Hospital. We also have a busy outpatient service and rural outreach service and provide more than 900,000 occasions of non-admitted patient care each year.

Our hospital is affiliated with various Universities and premier medical teaching facilities which enables our staff to provide excellence in healthcare in conjunction with our commitment to quality clinical teaching and leading medical research.

The Prince of Wales ICU is committed to high quality Intensive Care Medicine training, as evidenced by our great exam success rate. Teaching programs consist of material pertinent for college training. The Department is led by world-recognised, well-respected Intensivists and our doctors are supported by highly skilled and motivated nursing staff with a deep knowledge of critical illness. We have one of the strongest team atmospheres in the hospital and work hard to foster a friendly, supportive environment. We also acknowledge the importance of staff education and well-being, which in turn contributes to effective patient care. .

What you'll be doing

The primary purpose of the position is to provide quality intensive care to patients in a complex clinical environment whilst participating in the core training program of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) and entering the final stages of training to be a consultant in Intensive Care. CICM pre-approved Transition Year training may be available to the Advanced Trainee who meets all college requirements per the CICM Objectives of Training – the Transition Year and who is eligible to apply for prospective approval from CICM.  

A limited number of rotations to other services for Advanced Trainees looking for accredited training in Paediatric ICU at Sydney Children’s Hospital and Anaesthetics at Bathurst Base Hospital may be available. A limited number of rotations for Advanced Trainees looking for accredited training in Medicine and Anaesthetics at Prince of Wales Hospital may also be available.

Advanced Trainees work under the supervision of Specialist Intensive Care Physicians to manage patients requiring intensive care, those at risk of clinical deterioration requiring intensive care, plus pre- and post-intensive care evaluation. The position is flexible and has graded responsibility to allow increasing clinical autonomy and development of skills in research and administration, to build on those skills and attributes acquired in the early years of training and assist the movement of the trainee into specialist practice.

The Prince of Wales Intensive Care service is accredited by the CICM at the level of General Training (Gen), Cardio and Neuro, and is responsible for a general ICU and a mixed HDU/ICU, as well as a separate mixed general-cardiothoracic ICU.

SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.

Recent experience in working in an Intensive Care Unit of appropriate complexity and size at Trainee Level is highly advantageous 

Support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates
We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates and we have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can provide support. If you have any questions or would like guidance on the recruitment process, please contact the SESLHD Aboriginal Employment Team via email to: SESLHD-AboriginalWorkforce@health.nsw.gov.au