2026 Wchn Paediatric Critical Care Registrar

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 902282
**Location**: 5006 - NORTH ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Long Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Paediatric Critical Care Registrar, North Adelaide (5006)**:

- **Salary** - **Total Indicative Remuneration - Classification - MDP2 - Medical Practitioner - $105,751 to $171,579 p.a (includes award salary, superannuation and any other monetary benefits)**
- **Full time - Term Contract**
- **6-month rotations to Paediatric Emergency Department, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, MedSTAR Kids Retrieval**

**About the Opportunity**

We currently have an exciting opportunity for **Paediatric Critical Care Registrar,**where you will be responsible for:

- Managing emergency presentations and Extended Care Unit inpatients, including coordinating investigations, supervising junior medical officers, liaising with patients, families, and statutory authorities, and overseeing patient discharge
- Participating in departmental teaching, continuing education programs, and quality improvement activities under the supervision of senior clinicians
- Contributing to departmental research and audit projects
- Participating in after-hours on-call rosters where applicable which is supported by the Consultants

MedSTAR.
- Providing high-quality, patient-centred care to critically ill or injured neonates and children during inter-facility transport
- Responding via road vehicle, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopter, or commercial airline as part of paediatric/neonatal retrieval operations
- Working in partnership with experienced retrieval nurses to deliver critical care during retrievals
- Receiving comprehensive support and mentoring prior to and during retrieval duties, including access to ongoing training, teaching, audit, and quality assurance activities.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery (BMBS) or equivalent,
- Registrable with the Medical Board of Australia as a Medical Practitioner with General Registration
- Ability to work as an effective team member in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Ability to communicate effectively with clients and colleagues
- Ability to work under stressful conditions and/or high workloads
- Problem solving and decision-making skills (both clinical and individual)

MedSTAR:

- Applicants must have at least 6 months Neonatal/Paediatric critical care experience. This must include significant time spent in a level 6 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and may include time spent in a Tertiary Level Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.
- Documented clinical competency in the initial management of critically ill and injured children and neonates
- Advanced airway management
- Central venous, umbilical and arterial invasive vascular access
- Tube thoracostomy
- Selection and management of infused inotropic and vasoactive agents

**What WCHN Can Offer You**
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year. Click here more information
- Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

**About Us**

The **Women’s & Children’s Health Network** is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

- specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
- state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
- community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
- specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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**Special Conditions**

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