Provisional Fellow

**Employment Type**: Temporary Various - Contract 1st April 2024 to 2nd February 2025

**Remuneration**: $89,095.00 to $139,187.00

**Hours Per Week**: 38

**Requisition ID**: CAM21036
- An exciting opportunity exists to join the Paediatrics Department 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 primary purpose of the Provisional Fellow Paediatrics is to provide high quality medical care under appropriate supervision to patients within the Paediatric Unit, Neonatal Unit and other relevant services. The Wollongong Hospital General Paediatric Provisional Fellow will supervise a team of five paediatric trainees and senior and prevocational resident medical officers. Wollongong Paediatrics has a 24 hour junior medical officer workforce. The Fellow will be involved in acute and outpatient paediatric care including daily acute review clinics in the Paediatric Assessment Unit, General Paediatric Outpatient Clinics in the hospital and in private consulting rooms.
- The Provisional Fellow position is accredited by the RACP General Paediatric Specialist Advisory Committee and supports developing the skills that are required for Paediatric training with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. The Fellow will have the opportunity to gain on call experience by acting as the first on call in the consultant roster. The University of Wollongong Graduate School of Medicine offers research and teaching opportunities and conjoint appointments are available to interested Fellows.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.

**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.

**All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a TGA approved COVID-19 vaccine prior to commencement with NSW Health OR provide an approved medical contraindication certificate. You will be required to show proof of your COVID-19 vaccination status prior to securing this role. Please also provide proof of booster vaccination, if available**.

**Selection Criteria**:

- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered with the Medical Board of Australia
- Registered with RACP as an advanced trainee or equivalent. Those registered with the RACP must have successfully completed written & clinical components of the FRACP examination & preferably completed a minimum of 6 months as an advanced trainee with RACP or equivalent at commencement of the Provisional Fellow role.
- Advanced communication skills, including the ability to convey, and adapt verbal and written information to a clinical and non-clinical audience.
- Advanced clinical skills and judgement, with the ability to make sound decisions and problem solve with an awareness of limitations and ability to learn independently and modify behaviour accordingly.
- Ongoing commitment to further education and professional development and demonstrated ability and willingness to teach medical students, doctors in training and other health professionals.
- Understanding of research methodology or research experience and a willingness to undertake a research proposal.
- Demonstrated contribution to quality improvement, patient safety and clinical governance within the hospital e.g. participation in committees or representation on behalf of the hospital.

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**Applications Close: 27th February 2024