Trainee - Unaccredited Position

**Employment Type**: Temporary Various

**Remuneration**: Resident $83554 - $112996

Registrar $104084 - $130532

**Hours Per Week**: 38

**Requisition ID**: CAM14609

The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is **_‘exceptional care, healthier lives’_**. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
The position will provide expert medical assessment and management of patients within the department/service.
Our staff strive to provide excellence in healthcare and uphold a high standard of care for all patients, families, carers and visitors to our facilities.
At the core of our organisation is a set of values - Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.

SESLHD covers nine Local Government Areas from Sydney's Central Business District to the Royal National Park and has a culturally and linguistically diverse population of over 930,000 people, which includes highly urbanised areas of eastern Sydney, southern Sydney and industrialised areas around Port Botany.

SESLHD covers urban and suburban communities and manages eight public hospitals and one public nursing home:

- Calvary Healthcare Sydney (third schedule with Little Company of Mary Health Care)
- Prince of Wales Hospital
- Royal Hospital for Women
- St George Hospital
- Sutherland Hospital
- Sydney/Sydney Eye Hospital
- War Memorial Hospital (third schedule with Uniting Care)
- Gower Wilson Memorial
- Garrawarra Centre

SESLHD also operates 28 Child and Family Health Centres, 12 Community Health Centres and nine Oral Health Clinics; providing prevention, early intervention and community-based treatment, palliative care and rehabilitation services.
Drug and Alcohol, Mental Health, Breast screening, HIV/AIDS, Public Health, Women's Health, Youth Health, Sexual Health, Imaging and Pathology services are provided at a number of facilities across SESLHD.

**_SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported._**

This position will be filled by 2 Unaccredited Trainees doing 6 months each of

ENT at St George and 6 months of ENT at Sutherland Hospital

The Unaccredited Trainee will manage inpatients of the Department including:
Admissions, clerking, and ward patient care. Investigation, management and fulfilling patient discharge duties in a timely fashion. The appointee is also expected to participate in the management of outpatient and ambulatory care patients. It is expected that this resident is to attend operating theatre in an assistant role as required. Participation in the after-hours roster covering St George and Sutherland Hospitals is required. At times the Unaccredited Trainee may be allowed to assist in general ENT at Sutherland Hospital

St George Hospital is a tertiary referral hospital with teaching affiliation involving University of NSW. It provides a full range of neurosurgical, cardiothoracic and plastic & reconstructive surgery as well as specialised general surgical services.

The unit is actively involved in the management of complex ENT and Head & Neck cases and also participates in multi-disciplinary Head & Neck cancer clinic.

It has close affiliation with oncology, radiotherapy and affiliated health services.

Major challenges for the Unaccredited Trainee include:

- Balancing mandated training and education requirements with service provision, within the limitations of a busy public health service.
- Maintaining a professional role and responsibility for patient care, in close liaison with supervising consultants.
- Working collaboratively with other staff in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Maximising the efficient utilisation of the physical resources of the Health Service.
- Working After hours

This position is supported by the ENT Dept. at St George and TSH Hospitals

**Position Contact Name: Dr Michael Farrell**

**Position Title: Head of Dept
- ENT**

**Contact number: 91131111**

**_SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. _**

**_Important information:_**
- This is a Category A position. All Category A applicants must read and understand NSW Health Policy PD2020_017.
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered with the Medical Board of Australia.
- Ability to independently undertake history and detailed assessment of ear, nose and throat, head and neck patients and be able to accurately describe the findings to the senior colleague, understanding the nuances of anatomy and pathology.
- Ability to undertake a detailed assessment of the ear and ability to clear the ear under microscopic control
- Ability to assess the nose and airways via nasendoscopy, with the experience to know what is normal and what might represent pathology.
- Ability to a