Trainee - Unaccredited Position

**Employment Type**: Temporary Various
**Remuneration**: - $89k - $139K
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: CAM24375

**Position Tagline**
Are you keen to continue your chosen career in a new facility with a team of professionals who are passionate and hard working?

**Where you'll be working**
Maitland - a charming region with a rich history, emerging food scene, thriving arts community, boutique accommodation and packed events calendar. You'll find all this just two hours from Sydney or 35 minutes from Newcastle, on the banks of the picturesque Hunter River.

Maitland Hospital is a major Rural Referral Hospital providing services to the expansive Lower Hunter Region. Having opened its doors on a brand-new facility in January 2022, the new hospital provides a broad range of services in a comfortable and modern environment.

**What you'll be doing**

The primary purpose of the role is to provide effective clinical management of surgical patients, under appropriate supervision, whilst developing expertise in medical practice, in a complex clinical environment.

The unaccredited trainee is the key person who works closely with all members of a multi-disciplinary team and deals with matters of an urgent or sensitive nature, whilst exercising discretion, sensitivity and maintaining confidentiality.

Decision making and supervision will be at the appropriate level according to the unaccredited trainee’s skills, knowledge and experience. They will be expected to adopt a progressively more independent approach to patient management according to their experience, under the guidance of and at the discretion of the appropriate Attending Medical Officer (AMO). All patients managed within the hospitals of the health service are under the direct care of a specialist medical practitioner. All decisions regarding a patient’s care are to be clearly communicated with the specialist responsible for that care.
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia
- A minimum of 3 years of postgraduate experience with minimum six months recent experience in general surgery, vascular, ENT and/or Urology
- Completion or at minimum registration of Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) and/or Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
- Completion or at minimum registration to sit the Generic Surgical Sciences Exam (GSSE)
- Demonstrated ability to work independently within a supervised complex clinical environment utilising excellent clinical skills, judgement and expertise
- Demonstrated effective teamwork, time management and problem-solving skills as part of a multidisciplinary clinical care team
- Evidence of continued professional development showing commitment towards becoming a Surgical Education Trainee

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**Applications Close: 28 February 2025