Paediatric Advanced Trainee in The Role of a

About Us
Children's Health Queensland is a specialist statewide hospital and health service dedicated to caring for children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
We are committed to collaborating with all of our healthcare partners, most importantly families, to ensure we consistently deliver safe, high-quality patient and family-centred care.
A recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, education and research, Children's Health Queensland delivers a full range of clinical services, tertiary level care and health promotion programs.

**We provide an integrated network of services through**:

- The Queensland Children's Hospital
- The Child and Youth Community Health Service
- The Child and Youth Mental Health Service
- Statewide services and programs, including specialist outreach and telehealth services
- Partnerships with other hospital and health services and non-government organisations

Children's Health Queensland provides services from key locations in the Brisbane metropolitan area and works with the 15 other hospital and health services as well as NGOs and charity partners in Queensland to deliver an integrated network of healthcare services and support across the state.

**Your Opportunity**:
The field of Paediatric Nephrology encompasses a broad array of disorders of infants, children, and adolescents. The intent of this position is to educate paediatric advanced trainees in the prevention, diagnosis, and management of renal disorders so as to provide comprehensive, compassionate care for infants, children, and adolescents with disorders of the kidneys and urinary tract, including management of patients with chronic kidney disease, on chronic dialysis (peritoneal and haemodialysis), with kidney transplant (acute and chronic), as well as patients treated with therapeutic apheresis.
- Provide the clinical experiences and educational opportunities necessary to build a solid foundation of medical knowledge, critical thinking abilities, literature review, diagnostic acumen and technical skills.
- Train well-rounded, empathetic clinicians to develop skills in communication and counselling with patients and families.
- Provide academic paediatric trainees the research training and experience to develop careers as physician -scientists.
- Impart to our trainees a sense of responsibility to act as advocates for the health of children and families within our society.
- Teach professionalism by mentorship, validating the critical roles of personal ethics, responsibility, respect, compassion, communication, and self-awareness.

What CHQ HHS can offer
Apart from contributing to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, you will also benefit from a competitive remuneration package and a working environment which embraces professional development, builds capabilities and supports staff to maximise their health and wellbeing. Additional benefits include:

- 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
- 17.5% annual leave loading
- Salary packaging
- Employee Assistance Program
- Work/life balance, variety and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.
Some roles within Queensland Health are designated as 'Vaccination Preventable Disease (VPD) risk roles'. A VPD risk role is a role in which the incumbent may be exposed to the risk of acquisition and/or transmission of a VPD. Please refer to the attached Role Description for more information and what requirements may exist.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.