Basic Physician Trainee Srmo 1

**Description**

**‘Creating exceptional health care together.’**
- POSITION DESCRIPTION**Position Title**:Basic Physician Trainee (PGY3)**Employment Type**:Full Time
**Classification**: SRMO 1
**Salary**: $99,996 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:The Canberra Hospital, Woden. North Canberra Hospital, Bruce.**Section**:Medical Services
**Closing Date: 24 November 2024**

**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
- Flexible working conditions
- 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 (act.gov.au)**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.**To be eligible for this position you must be PGY 3 + from February 2025**

**POSITION OVERVIEW**:

- Canberra Hospital’s Basic Physician Training program provides high quality clinical training and educational opportunities for trainees with subspecialty and general medicine rotations within the Network (Canberra Hospital & Health Services, North Canberra Hospital, Goulburn Base Hospital and South East Regional Hospital). The training program has an established track record and a structure that supports trainee preparation for success at the RACP Fellowship examination.- Educational support and training opportunities include a mentorship program and numerous formal and informal learning forums for junior medical staff, including a well-attended morning clinical handover, grand rounds, regular unit scientific meetings as well as protected teaching time to attend formal tutorials and lectures.- Overall, the training is well integrated with the clinical service requirements of the hospital. Our training program has maintained an excellent record of consistent success at the written and clinical FRACP Examination. There is active and enduring commitment of our senior clinical staff to the physician training program, including Dr Simon O’Connor co-author of the Talley & O’Connor Examination Medicine textbook and the network physician training committee.Eligibility for unconditional registration as a Medical Practitioner with the Medical Board of Australia is essential.

**DUTIES**:

- Under limited direction of your term clinical supervisor together with the Director of Physician Education and Network Director of Physician Education you will perform the role of a medical registrar within the Canberra Training Network. You will:
1. Provide competent and efficient clinical management of patients of the Health Directorate under the supervision and direction of Consultant Physicians. Clinical duties will include assessment and management of acute presentations, inpatient care, diagnosis and management of patients in outpatient clinics, consultations, and attending and actively participating in clinical handover according to organisational requirements.

2. Participate in the supervision, training and professional development of junior medical staff, allied health professionals and medical students.

3. Actively participate in and progress through the Basic Physician Training program.

4. Participate in the general medical registrar rosters, including evening, overnight, weekend shifts and on-call commitments as required and according to changing organisational needs including rotations outside of the primary campus to North Canberra Hospital, Goulburn Base Hospital and South East Regional Hospital.

5. Comply with the policies and requirements of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and the policies of the Health Directorate.

6. Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.

**ABOUT YOU**:
**Behavioural Capabilities**

1. A drive to excel.

2. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with an ability to negotiate and manage conflict.

3. Self-reflective, with a capacity to scan for new ideas.

4. Capacity to actively participate in and progress through Basic Physician Training

**Position Requirements / Qualifications**
- Mandatory- A minimum of postgraduate year three including 2 years’ experience working as a medical professional in a hospital-based environment.
- Advanced life support certificate is preferred and required by the second year of Basic Physician Training. A current Advanced Life Support certificate if the first year of Basic Physician Training has alread