Stroke Medicine Registrar

**Description**

**‘Creating exceptional health care together.’**

**Position Title**:**Stroke Medicine Registrar (Advanced Trainee)

**Employment Type**:Full time
**Classification**:**Registrar
**Salary**:$112,917 - $141,084 (pa)
**Location**:Canberra Hospital, Garran ACT. North Canberra Hospital, Bruce ACT.
**Section**:Medicine
**Closing Date**:**3 August 2025

**What can we offer you**:

- City living without the traffic - click here to 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
- 11.5% Superannuation
- To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services

**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 regions. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Medical Staff in the Canberra Health Services enjoy excellent conditions, and our Enterprise Agreement is available at: ACTPS Medical Practitioners Enterprise Agreement 2021-2022
- Two Advanced Trainee in Stroke medicine positions are advertised to improve the delivery of stroke care in the ACT. The two positions will be attached to the ACT Stroke Service, specifically the stroke units at The Canberra Hospital and North Canberra Hospital.
- The stroke advanced trainees will gain extensive experience in management of stroke and emergency assessment and selection of patients for acute therapy. By the end of the year, the advanced trainees will be confident to manage stroke thrombolysis and select patients for endovascular clot retrieval. The registrars will obtain exposure and training in advanced imaging for acute stroke and will become confident in the interpretation of multimodal CT (CTA and CTP) and MRI (including MR perfusion). The advanced trainees will also run a rapid-access referral TIA clinic, a stroke follow-up clinic, and a general neurology clinic at each hospital. There are ample opportunities for research, and it is expected that the advanced trainees will each complete a novel research project in stroke which will be presented at national and international conferences, and also have scope for publication in peer reviewed journals. The advanced trainees will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the acute stroke units and the acute thrombolysis teams at each hospital (with support from the consultants) and will gain extensive experience in post-acute stroke management, including secondary stroke prevention and rehabilitation. The stroke registrars will also participate in the on-call stroke/neurology roster at the hospitals, as directed. This will require coming in from home to assess and manage acute stroke patients who might need hyperacute therapy (thrombolysis or endovascular clot retrieval) and undertaking ward rounds on weekends when on call. The positions are accredited for 1 year of elective/non-core neurology training.
- Specifically, the duties involve:

- Daily ward rounds on acute stroke unit and other stroke inpatients
- Participation in the 24/7 hyperacute stroke team
- Diagnosis and management of acute stroke patients using multimodal imaging, assessing eligibility for IV thrombolysis and/or endovascular clot retrieval
- Three weekly outpatient clinics:

- o 2 TIA/neurovascular/stroke follow-up clinics
- o 1 non-stroke neurology clinic
- Participation in in-house research and multicentre clinical trials
- Teaching of medical students, junior medical staff and nursing/allied health staff, as required. Academic title with the ANU is optional.
- On call: participate in after-hours stroke/neurology on-call roster under consultant supervision
- Hours: 1.0 FTE
- On call: participate in after-hours stroke/neurology on-call roster
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy

For more information regarding the position details click here for the Position Description

Applications must be submitted through the e-recruitment system and must include:

- A copy of a current resumé.
- A response to the selection criteria under “what you require” in no more than two pages, outlining your skills, knowledge and experience and why you should be considered for this role.
- Two referee reports. At least one from a current supervisor. You can download the referee report template here

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**Job**: Junior Medical Officers

**Salary Range**: 112,917.00 - 141,084.00

**Closing Date**: 03/Aug/2025, 8:59:00 AM