Provisional Fellow

**Employment Type**: Temporary Various - for contract from 3rd February 2025 to 1st February 2026
**Remuneration**: $97,993.00 to $139,187.00
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: CAM23685

An exciting opportunity exists to join the Intensive Care Unit at Wollongong Hospital.

**Where you'll be working**
Wollongong Hospital is the Illawarra and Shoalhaven’s major referral and teaching hospital and has a bed base of more than 500. The campus, which incorporates the Illawarra Regional Cancer Care Centre, provides a comprehensive range of inpatient, outpatient and community-based services.

Wollongong is located an hour’s drive south of Sydney on a narrow coastal strip bordered by the Royal National Park to the north, Lake Illawarra to the south, the Tasman Sea to the east and the Illawarra Escarpment to the west. Learn more about the lifestyle benefits of living and working in Wollongong

**What you'll be doing**

The Intensive Care Provisional/Transitional Fellow will work under the supervision of Specialist Intensive Care Physicians, assisting to manage, diagnose and treat patients with severe medical, surgical, obstetric and pediatric illness. This may include the management of deteriorating and seriously ill patients outside the intensive care unit as well as the intra-hospital transport of critically ill patients.
Provisional/Transitional fellow position allows a role between that of trainee and consultant, with flexibility and graded responsibility to allow increasing clinical autonomy, and development of skills in research and administration. It is aimed to assist the movement of the trainee into specialist practice and build on those skills and attributes acquired in the early years of training and which were assessed in the formal exams and in workplace-based assessments.
The position is accredited for ICU training by the CICM and evidence of progression towards fellowship is an essential criterion of the role.

Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District is committed to equal employment opportunity and embraces diversity and inclusion within its workforce. As such, people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. This includes but is not limited to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, People with Disability, Women and People from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds.

Successful applicants to the role must provide certified documentation of vaccination history and pathology as part of their recruitment documentation. The applicant must be certified as compliant with Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases (nsw.gov.au) before employment can commence.

**Please note**: Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.

**Selection Criteria**:

- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia.
- Satisfactory completion of the required clinical training time and assessments for the core intensive care medicine, anaesthesia, and medicine years as per CICM training program.
- Satisfactory completion of the CICM Second Part Examination. Satisfactory completion of all prescribes courses, learning packages and WBA as per CICM.
- Satisfactory exposure to two out of three sub-specialties in a) Cardiothoracic surgery intensive care, b) Neurological/Neurosurgery intensive care, c) Trauma intensive care.
- Completion of at least two years in an accredited training position in an Australian Intensive Care, or overseas equivalent
- Demonstrated competency in emergency situations with skills in advanced life support
- High level of communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work as part of a team

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**Applications Close: 21, October 2024