Trainee

**Employment Type**: Temporary Various
**Remuneration**: - As per NSW Public Hospitals Medical Officers Award
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: CAM15234

**Trainee - Anaesthetics**

**Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital**

**What you'll be doing**

**WSLHD - Trainee - Anaesthesia**

The primary purpose of a Trainee in Anaesthesia is to provide anaesthesia care in a complex clinical
environment. This will be done under supervision appropriate to the level of training of the applicant and in line
with recommendations of the training program of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
(ANZCA) or as part of the CICM or ACEM training programme or Diploma of Rural Generalist Anaesthesia,
where this is applicable. Trainees are expected to extend their knowledge and skills in managing anaesthesia
across multiple subspeciality areas of anaesthesia in order to meet the professional standards set by ANZCA.
They are required to deliver anaesthesia, perioperative care and pain management services inside and outside
the operating rooms and to perform other duties during rotations to other areas as directed. Trainees will
participate as a multidisciplinary team member across key areas of anaesthetics including:

- anaesthesia and sedation (including obstetric anaesthesia where relevant)
- regional anaesthesia
- airway management
- pain medicine
- perioperative medicine
- resuscitation
- trauma and crisis management

**CONTRACT DURATION**

**Western Sydney Local Health District**

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**About Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital**

Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital (BMDH) comprises two networked campus at Blacktown and Mount Druitt in Western Sydney. Currently hosting over 500 beds and 90,000 patients presenting to the Emergency Departments each year, the Hospital provides a complex range of healthcare in one of the fastest growing geographic populations in NSW. The completed second stage of the Expansion Project includes expanded capacity for emergency, intensive care, theatres and women’s & children’s health. These state-of-the-art facilities together with the transition to a major teaching hospital, will transition BMDH into one of the largest and digitally enabled public hospital in NSW, and one of the nation’s leading health facilities.

The Blacktown campus provides a 24-hour emergency service, intensive and high dependency care, specialist adult acute medical and surgical services, a comprehensive cancer centre, obstetrics and newborn care and mental health services. Ambulatory care services include satellite renal dialysis, chemotherapy, primary care and community health, drug and alcohol and dental clinic services.

The Mount Druitt campus provides a 24-hour emergency service, paediatric medicine, an elective surgical centre of excellence, rehabilitation medicine and palliative care. Ambulatory care services include oral health and an older adult non-acute mental health service. BMDH is accredited for training for most specialties and is networked with Westmead Hospital for Surgical Skills Training, Basic Physician Training, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Radiology, Anaesthetics and Mental Health. Highly competitive rotations have also been established for Critical Care, General Registration (for International Medical Graduates), and vocational General Practice. BMDH is a major teaching hospital for the Western Sydney University School of Medicine. This partnership provides opportunities to join a thriving teaching community as well as access to an active, clinical research network and a multitude of research opportunities. We are committed to enriching our workplace culture to deliver high quality, safe and reliable health care, and support every individual in our organisation in our pursuit of world class health care for our patients and their families and carers. We recognise a successful training program balances broad clinical experience with high impact education, personal and professional development and personal health and wellbeing. The BMDH Black Label Program has been established for Doctors in Training as a suite of resources and series of opportunities available to trainees to help launch careers and look after trainee work/life balance and wellbeing. This includes career mapping, protected teaching time, clinical and research skills development, mentorship and coaching, flexible working arrangements, and a variety of collegial opportunities.
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia in an appropriate registration category.
- Adequate postgraduate hospital medical experience (preferably 3 years or greater), and a level of clinical anaesthesia experience appropriate for the particular training hospital’s role. This role is used to further progress towards a Fellowship qualification.
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