Senior Registrar

The General Surgery Senior Trainee is a key position within the Department of General Surgery and acts as the day-to-day supervisor of the junior medical officers working in this department, including SET trainees, unaccredited surgical registrars and senior RMOs. The Surgical Senior Trainee works across all three surgical units within the Department of General Surgery, namely upper GIT surgery, colorectal surgery and surgical oncology, to coordinate the care of acute admissions and elective patients. The Surgical Senior Trainee provides supervision and support to both accredited and non-accredited registrars, particularly with operative cases, and is responsible for the rostering and leave arrangements of Department registrars. The Surgical Senior Trainee is also responsible for coordinating the Department’s education program for surgical and prevocational trainees. The Surgical Senior Trainee assists the Head of Department in coordinating the clinical governance and patient safety activities of the Department including morbidity and mortality meetings and has an important role in ensuring that junior medical staff fully participate in these activities. The role is flexible and allows for the Surgical Senior Trainee to work with any or all of the Department’s three subspecialty units to focus on increasing their exposure to operative cases and acute care surgery within their area of subspecialty interest. In this way, the role is an ideal transition from SET training to post-fellowship training, allowing the successful candidate to build their experience and confidence in a tertiary care environment. 

St Vincent’s Health Network Sydney (SVHN) forms part of the NSW region of St Vincent’s Health Australia which is the largest diversified health care organisation within Australia’s not for profit and Catholic health care sectors. SVHN comprises some of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious hospitals; these include St Vincent’s Hospital and Sacred Heart Hospice. Along with three co-located research institutes – the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research – we work in close partnership with other research bodies, universities, and health care providers.

St. Vincents Hospital is a major public hospital and a principal tertiary referral hospital. St Vincents specialises in heart/lung transplantation; bone marrow transplantation; cardiology; neurosurgery, cancer; clinical genomics, HIV medicine; palliative care, respiratory medicine; mental health; and drug and alcohol services, aged psychiatry, homeless health and prisoner health. We are a clinical and education leader with a national and international reputation in medical research

Centrally located in Darlinghurst, it sits on the edge of Sydney’s business district. St. Vincents follows the philosophy of the Mary Aikenhead Ministries in its service to all regardless of race, nationality or creed. St Vincent’s Health Australia provides compassionate healthcare to people from all walks of life, but reflecting our mission, we are especially committed to people from vulnerable and marginalised backgrounds.

The Hospital has a long-standing reputation for treating the highest acuity and complex patient loads, attracting referrals on a state-wide and national basis. The Hospital is a teaching hospital of the UNSW and University of Notre Dame and has academic associations with the Australian Catholic University, Sydney University and the University of Technology, Sydney.