Advanced Trainee

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time
Remuneration:  - 
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM28086
 

Please note: This is a 6mth contract - starting August 3rd 2026 and ends January 31st 2027

Living in our region
Hunter New England is a large, diverse area and is roughly the size of England. This beautiful area has appealed to many an urban professional who is seeking a relaxed lifestyle. You can indulge your passion for the great outdoors, while still maintaining a fulfilling career.

Hunter New England Health offers a wonderful family environment with excellent public and private schools, first-class universities, and the only regional medical research institute in Australia. Health professionals across HNE Health are involved in extensive clinical and laboratory research programs, many of them in conjunction with our Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI).
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Where you'll be working

Newcastle's John Hunter Hospital is a specialised tertiary referral hospital, teaching hospital and community hospital, providing complex medical, surgical, major trauma for numerous specialities.

We are the busiest ED in the state and a major trauma centre for Northern NSW. John Hunter Hospital is a great place to develop your career as we are delivering services to people of all ages, from birth to childhood and adulthood.

Other regional hospitals part of the HNELHD Network are Belmont, Maitland, Tamworth and Manning Hospital. Other peripheral sites on rotation are Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour
 

What you'll be doing
The John Hunter Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Service currently receives over 1000 new referrals each year with a case mix of approximately 40% malignant and 60% non-malignant diagnoses. The Consultation Service provides holistic Palliative Care including complex symptom management, end of life care, referral to the nearby Calvary Mater Newcastle Mercy Hospice, linkage with surrounding Community Outreach Services and bereavement services.  

The Department has been recently enhanced and is founded on strong relationships and ongoing education and engagement across medical, nursing and allied health disciplines. It has evolving research projects looking at patient experience in the inpatient setting, transition from inpatient to community-based palliative care and a recent successful in-patient primary palliative care team (INPPACT) link nurse education program. 

Staffing includes 1.5 FTE Palliative Medicine Staff Specialists, 0.4 FTE General Physician and an interdisciplinary team including Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Aboriginal Health Worker, Social Work and Admin. The Service has close ties to the aforementioned Department of Palliative Care at Calvary Mater Newcastle and surrounding Palliative Care services as well as the Hunter Integrated Pain Service and Kidney Supportive Care Service. Advanced Trainees have the opportunity to participate in additional specialist Palliative and Supportive Care outpatient clinics including Kidney Supportive Care and Motor Neurone Disease.  

Advanced Trainees are embedded within the team, working closely with all disciplines. Clinical supervision is provided by Palliative Medicine Staff Specialists. Advanced Trainees have the opportunity to work independently with immediate supervision available at any time via phone or in person.