Basic Physician Trainee

**Position Title**: Basic Physician Trainee
**Employment Type**:Maximum Term
**Hours per week**:38 Hours
**Position Grade**:Resident/Registrar
**Salary**:As per Award
**Enterprise Agreement**: The Named NSW (Non-Declared) Affiliated Health Organisations’ Medical Officer Agreement 2009
**Department Name**:General Medicine

The St Vincent's South West Network encompasses, Campbelltown Hospital and Wagga Wagga Rural Referral Hospital. We combine a long standing tradition of excellence in patient care and physician training in the most rapidly growing and dynamic medical environment in NSW, with an established centre of rural health excellence.

**Where you'll be working**
St Vincents Hospital is a major public teaching hospital and a principal tertiary referral hospital. St Vincents specialises in heart/lung transplantation; bone marrow transplantation; cardiology; cancer; HIV medicine; respiratory medicine; mental health; and drug and alcohol services. Centrally located in Darlinghurst, it sits on the edge of Sydney’s business district. St Vincent's follows the philosophy, mission and values of the Mary Aikenhead Ministries. 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.
Campbelltown Hospital provides a dynamic environment for Basic Physician Trainees to work and train and is located within the most ethnically diverse health area within Australia. It is a 306 bed hospital providing intensive care, cardiology, maternity, gynaecology, paediatrics, palliative care, respiratory and stroke medicine, surgery and emergency medicine and broad aged care services to the Macarthur community.
Campbelltown has an excellent tutorial series and several of the Consultants on staff are examiners with the College of Physicians. Campbelltown Hospital is an examining site for the Clinical Exam for the College of Physicians.
Wagga Wagga Rural Referral Hospital is a 294 bed general facility servicing a provincial population of more than 269,000 people. The Hospital is accredited for basic physician training and has been a secondment hospital for trainees for over 20 years. The Hospitals diagnostic support facilities are without peer in regional NSW, and the co-location of the Greater Murray Rural Clinical School (UNSW) provides the latest technology, library and educational support. A trial clinical exam is held at Wagga Wagga and several of the Consultants on staff are examiners with the College of Physicians. Wagga Wagga is an examining site for the Clinical Exam for the College of Physicians.

**What you'll be doing**
The primary purpose of the Basic Physician Trainee (BPT) is to provide effective medical services to patients under supervision, while developing expertise in medical practice in a complex clinical environment in inpatient and outpatient areas in the public health organisations within the Network. Basic Physician Training roles consist of rotations through medical departments, working under an appropriate level of supervision by consultants. Rotations have different levels of responsibility and team structures. BPTs will gain increasing clinical autonomy and accountability as team leaders throughout the course of the three-year training program, building on their skills and attributes with the goal of entering an Advanced Training program.
BPTs 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 the treating physician when appropriate, in the following activities:

- Clinically assess patients, incorporating consultation/history taking, examination, and formulation of a differential diagnosis and management plans
- Discuss diagnoses and management plans with patients and their families or carers
- Document the progress of patients in multiple settings
- Prescribe medications tailored to patients’ needs and conditions
- Transfer care of patients
- Choose, organise and interpret investigations
- Assess and manage acutely unwell patients
- Plan, prepare for, perform, and provide after care for important procedures

**St Vincent's Health Australia: Identify**
Our organisational values are relevant to all positions. All employees are required to consistently demonstrate behaviours that support the Mission, Vision and Values of St Vincent’s Health Australia and promote an ethical environment in accordance with the St Vincent’s Health Australia Code of Conduct.

**Our Mission**
As a Catholic health and aged care service provider, our mission is to bring God’s love to those in need through the healing ministry of Jesus. We are especially committed to people who are poor and vulnerable. We draw on the talents of our people and collaborate with others who share our vision and values to continue the pioneering spirit of Mary Aikenhead and the Sisters of Charity. We are commi