Job description
The Role:
Exciting Job opportunity… Use the full range of your FANZCA skills!
The Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine is seeking an enthusiastic Specialist Anaesthetists with FANZCA to join their growing department of Specialist Anaesthetists, to provide clinical expertise in anaesthesia, acute pain, and perioperative medicine.
The Hospital:
The Hospital has 370 beds, servicing a population of over 180,000 including parts of the Kimberley of WA. It serves a diverse population including urban, regional, and remote centres.
The Australian Indigenous population makes up 27% of the NT but approaching 50% of all hospital inpatients. Multiple co-morbidities increase the challenge of provision of safe anaesthesia in this patient group. Clinical work covers the full spectrum of procedures including elective neurosurgical services and will be commencing cardiac surgery in 2018.
Currently over 14,000 operations are performed per annum. Additional theatre and staffing arrangements will see this increase including the opening of a satellite regional hospital (Palmerston – 20km away) in 2018. The Department runs an Acute Pain Service and is currently expanding its role in Perioperative Medicine including pre-procedure optimisation as well as involvement in ERAS. Clinical support includes an 18 bed ICU, Level 3 NICU, Radiotherapy centre on-campus, MRI, 2xCT and soon to be opened PET scanning Approximately 15% of the caseload is Paediatric and there are approximately 2200 deliveries with a significant proportion of high-risk cases.
The large caseload of Maxillofacial and Head & Neck Surgical procedures lends themselves to development of Awake Fibreoptic intubation skills. ANZCA trainee registrars rotate from South Australia and Queensland. They currently have 15 staff at registrar or senior registrar/provisional fellow level, in addition to RMOs and some GP Anaesthetists in training to work in regional centres of Gove and Katherine.
They are looking for people to provide clinical services as well as contribute to teaching and quality assurance program and other administrative tasks within the department. TOP END HEALTH SERVICE There is optional involvement in Anaesthesia Outreach to regional hospitals in Gove and Katherine and Hyperbaric Medicine.
This is the National Trauma and Critical Care Response Centre and has been heavily involved in several mass casualty disasters including the Bali bombings, Ashmore Reef and East Timor Crises as well as international deployment after natural disaster in Philippines, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Solomon Islands. Darwin has a very attractive lifestyle – distances within the city are short and traffic congestion almost non-existent.
The Location:
This is your opportunity to work in a vibrant, tropical, cosmopolitan city with a population of 200,000, boasting excellent access to world heritage national parks in Kakadu, Litchfield, and the Kimberly.
The proximity of this City to Asia and the tropical lifestyle it boasts, in addition to the experience gained in the work environment does make it an exciting and fulfilling place to work.
If you are looking for a laid back and friendly lifestyle with an emphasis on outdoor leisure activities, particularly camping, bush walking, cycling, and fishing, this could be just what you have been waiting for!!
From the sparkling blue waters in the harbour to the city's Asian-influenced food and tropical outdoor lifestyle, this City is an adventurers' paradise.
Skills & Qualifications required:
- Eligible for specialist registration with the Medical Board of Australia.
- Fellowship or equivalent and good standing with the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthesia (ANZCA),
- Demonstrated interpersonal, leadership, oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to interact positively in a cross-cultural work environment, as a team member.
- An interest in and a commitment to improving Indigenous health.
- Evidence of commitment and participation in; continuing education, teaching, research and Safety and Quality activities.
- Proven ability to manage self and others, monitor performance, manage change, and develop policy with an understanding of EEO and WHS principles and policies.
- Relocation assistance will be provided, and short-term subsidised hospital accommodation is available on-campus.
- Competitive Salary package
- Career progression
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