2023 Intensive Care Transition Year Fellow

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 55030

**About Monash Health**

**About Monash Doctors**

There are more than 1,500 Junior Medical staff positions at Monash Health in over 200 medical specialties, to help grow your career. We offer unparalleled opportunities in Victoria's largest & most clinically diverse teaching health service.

**About the Role**

This Transition Year fellow position at Monash Medical Centre has been developed in accordance with the college requirement to allow completion of training and admission to the college of intensive care medicine for trainees registering after 2014.

The aim is to introduce consultant activities into the trainee’s experience in a structured manner through supervised practice initially, and progress to mínimal supervision and as required supervision, as would be seen for junior consultants.

The structured introduction will focus on:

- Supervised ward rounds
- On call from home
- Non clinical portfolio

**About the Intensive Care Department**

Monash Medical Centre Intensive Care Unit Environment houses a 26-bed unit operating as two pods run by two teams of multidisciplinary staff including Intensivists, Senior and Junior Registrars, Residents, Physiotherapists, Nursing Staff and Pharmacists.

The Unit has a dedicated outreach consultant role Monday to Friday in hours, weekends only 2 consultants, one for each pod with outreach support alternating daily for the 2 days. Our Senior Medical Staffing includes 8.5 consultant EFT split between 4 full time consultants and 9 part time staff. We have 40 weekends a year covered by Intensivists.

**Subspecialty programs include**:

- Ultrasound and echocardiography
- Provision of lung US and echo within the unit
- Combined training program with Technicians
- USS course certificate for ICU trainees
- Research
- ECMO
- Education - Part 1 and 2 CICM preparation
- Organ Donation
- Infection prevention
- Specialty liaison portfolios for Cardiothoracic surgery, Neurosurgery, Infectious diseases, Anaesthesia and Emergency

**Patient exposure**:

- 600 bed acute adult hospital
- Over 2000 admissions a year
- Over 4500 external emergency responses / year
- Adult Cardiothoracic surgery Intensive Care
- 550 admissions a year
- Includes aortic surgery, CABG's and valve surgery
- ECMO
- Tier 3 centre in the Victorian ECMO service
- Average 12 cases / year
- Historically 75% post cardiotomy patients
- Neurology / Neurosurgery
- Non trauma centre
- Clot retrieval centre
- Obstetric ICU
- Complex high risk obstetric centre

**What you need**:

- Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Appropriate health professional tertiary qualifications
- Working with Children's Certificate

**What we offer**:

- Salary packaging
- Onsite discounted staff parking
- Discounted banking (BankVic)
- Onsite Gym
- Access to professional development courses and seminars
- International Relocation allowance available to contribute towards the cost of airfares, initial temporary accommodation, and hotel quarantine (if required)

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

**How to Apply**

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same)
- proof of immunisation.