Paediatric Icu Specialist

3 weeks ago


Canberra, Australia ACT Health Full time

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Permanent, Full Time
**Classification**: Specialist 1-5/Senior Specialist
**Salary**:$188,151 - $254,198 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:The Canberra Hospital
**Section**:ICU
**Closing Date: 10 December 2023**

**What can we offer you**:

- City living without the traffic - click hereto see why you should live in Canberra.- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.- Flexible working conditions.- 11.5% Superannuation.- **About the Role**:
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website: CHS website
- Medical Staff in the Canberra Health Services enjoy excellent conditions, and our Enterprise Agreement is available at ENTERPRISE AGREEMENTS

The Canberra Hospital is a tertiary referral and trauma hospital with approximately 700 beds, serving the Australian Capital Territory and Southern New South Wales. The hospital provides services in all specialties except major burns, spinal injuries and solid organ transplantation. There are accredited training programs in all major specialties. The hospital is the principal teaching hospital of the Australian National University (ANU) Graduate Medical Program.

The Canberra Hospital ICU is a 39-bed general ICU which routinely cares for medical and surgical patients, including major trauma, cardiac, thoracic and neurosurgery.

In 2024, Canberra Health Services will open a 4-bed Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) within a 48-bed Adult ICU footprint, in the soon to be completed Critical Services Building. The PICU will care for patients who require short term (24-48hrs) support and/or monitoring either as a bridge to recovery or transfer to a higher level PICU. The PICU will work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams including the Paediatric Medicine, Paediatric Surgery, Emergency and Anaesthetics departments.

The Paediatric Intensive Care Specialist will lead the establishment and education of a group of medical and nursing staff to look after highly dependent or critically ill children, in collaboration with the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network.

Strong research links are maintained with the ANU, University of Canberra, and the Australian Catholic University. The hospital has well developed post graduate teaching programs. A fully equipped medical library is available on site with a large collection of hard copy and online journals and textbooks.

A performance assessment will be conducted within three months following commencement of employment. At least every twelve months, a performance review will be undertaken that includes expectations in respect of management responsibilities, quality improvement and clinical governance activities, post graduate and undergraduate teaching activities, continuing education, research, health outcomes.

**Duties**:

- 1.- Deliver clinical care expected of an experience medical practitioner in the discipline of Intensive Care Medicine and in line with College of Intensive Care Medicine Guidelines.- 2.- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team directed towards the care of critically ill patients include patients with life-threatening single and multiple organ system failure, those at risk of clinical deterioration as well as those requiring resuscitation and/or management in an intensive care unit or a high dependency unit.- 3.- Be proficient in the performance and education of technical skills required to manage the critically ill child.- 4.- In partnership with other members of the Intensive Care Unit executive, be accountable for day-to-day operations of the service and endeavour to ensure that clinical, strategic, and key performance indicators are met.- 5.- Communicate with internal and external stakeholders (namely Paediatricians, Paediatrics surgeons, NETS and Sydney Children Hospital Network) across and outside of Canberra Health Services, to enable appropriate and effective interaction with patients, families, other team members and referring clinicians, and other health services, to facilitate and ensure collaborative, multidisciplinary patient care.- 6.- Be responsible for the supervision of multidisciplinary health care staff including, Nurses, Senior and Junior Medical Officers, and allied health with respect to specific paediatric education and skill training.- 7.- Conduct, supervise, and encourage research and quality assurance activities, in line with the ICU’s research and quality assurance program.- 8.- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.**For more information about this position and how to apply, please clic



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