Trainee - Stage 1

**Employment Type**: Temporary Various

**Remuneration**: $104,084 to $133,834

**Hours Per Week**: 38

**Requisition ID**: CAM17850 - CCLHD - Emergency Medicine - Trainee Stage 1

Welcome to Central Coast Local Health District where we strive to deliver exceptional healthcare services and enhance the health and wellbeing of our community. We invite suitably trained and experienced medical officers to join our community and enjoy the benefits of a relaxed, coastal lifestyle paired with a rewarding career supporting our rapidly growing population.
Please watch our welcome video.

At CCLHD we value our staff as our most important resource and offer ongoing support and development opportunities. Find out more:

- Central Coast Local Health District - Imagine Regional (nsw.gov.au)
- Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) - NSW Health
- Find your place at Central Coast Health, like Dr Nick - YouTube
- CCLHD - YouTube

The following positions are current advertising in Emergency Medicine:

- Emergency Medicine Advanced Trainee - Gosford & Wyong Hospitals - Job No: CAM17848
- Emergency Medicine JMO Trainee (Stage 1) - Gosford & Wyong Hospitals - Job No: CAM17850
- Emergency Medicine Unaccredited Trainee - Gosford & Wyong Hospitals - Job No: CAM17851
- Emergency Medicine Senior Resident Medical Officer - Gosford & Wyong Hospitals - Job No: CAM17852

**Where you will be working**:
**Gosford Hospital** is the principal referral hospital and trauma centre for the Central Coast, with over 500 inpatient beds and 24/7 access to the emergency department and operating theatres. A recent $368 million dollar redevelopment delivered a new emergency department, ICU, nuclear medicine facility, special care nursery and expanded medical imaging services.

**Wyong Hospital** is an acute major metropolitan hospital with over 300 beds providing inpatient, outpatient and emergency services to residents in the northern region of the Central Coast. A recent $200 million expansion delivered a new emergency department, ICU, paediatric unit, inpatient wards, theatres and expanded medical imaging services.

In conjunction with the University of Newcastle, CCLHD has recently opened the Central Coast Clinical School and Research Institute on the Gosford Hospital campus, providing additional opportunities in training and research.

**Wyong Hospital and Gosford Hospitals** have busy mixed **emergency departments** with a wide variety of presentations including good exposure to trauma and paediatrics. Both are well supported by committed emergency physicians and a junior medical workforce with a tight team that is highly procedurally focused. There is access to regular simulation training and paid protected weekly education sessions for ACEM trainees. ACEM advanced trainees have the opportunity to rotate to dedicated positions in ICU and anaesthetics within CCLHD and to tertiary paediatrics, tertiary trauma and retrieval through external secondments. CCLHD emergency trainees have been very successful at passing their Primary and Fellowship exams and there is a well organised training program.

For more information about what it is like to work with us, please visit our Facebook page.
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered with the Medical Board of Australia in an appropriate registration category.
- Selected into ACEM training by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) for 2023.
- A minimum of three years full time equivalent post graduate hospital experience with significant experience in an Australasian Emergency Department.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multidisciplinary team, including providing leadership and direction to ensure appropriate management of patients.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently within a supervised complex clinical environment utilising excellent clinical skills, judgment and expertise, with demonstrated commitment to quality improvement, patient safety and risk management.
- Demonstrated time management, problem solving skills and excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and computer skills, with minimum of 30 words per minute. Along with evidence of continuing professional development and commitment to self-education.
- Demonstrated understanding of how the District is Caring for the Coast and how this role would contribute.

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**Applications Close: Sunday, 7th May 2023, 11.59pm AEST.