Trainee - Unaccredited Position

**Urology Surgery, Trainee Unaccredited Position, Nepean Hospital**:
**Employment Type**: Temporary Full Time (05-May-2025 to 01-Feb-2026)
**Remuneration**: $97,993 - $139,187
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: CAM24586

Nepean Hospital has an excellent urological service offering a complete clinical, non-clinical and academic training experience. The Department of Urology consists of 9 Urologists with a range of special interests including Uro-oncology, Endourology, functional Urology and reconstructive Urology making it an ideal training opportunity for a junior Trainee.

**What you'll be doing**
- Ward work including managing pre
- and post-operative patients with other members of the team (one Fellow, one SET 5 Advanced Trainee completing fellowship examination, two Unaccredited Trainees and three JMOs).
- Attending, work-up and managing emergency urological presentations and ward based urological consults.
- Required to participate in the after-hours on-call rosters (1 in 4 on-call).
- On-call expectations include ability to assess, diagnose and manage urological presentations to the Emergency department. Basic urological surgical experience is preferable.
- Participating in teaching and supervision of interns / RMO’s and attached medical students.
- Co-ordinating with the anaesthetists, medical consultation, organisation of post-operative care.
- Assisting the SET Trainees and Consultants with surgical procedures including elective general urology, robotic lists (approx. 5-8 per week) and emergency cases.
- Arranging, attending and presenting at X-ray, multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and morbidity/ mortality (M&M) meetings on a weekly basis.
- There will be an ample opportunity to learn new skills in Urological surgery.

**Where you'll be working**
- Based entirely at Nepean Hospital in Kingswood, NSW. Nepean is a tertiary referral centre and teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. Stage One of the Nepean Redevelopment was recently completed and includes a contemporary 14-storey clinical building, providing a major expansion and upgrade of essential health services at Nepean Hospital.
- The Urology ward is in the newly opened Stage One Tower Building A, with Urology Theatres remaining in Building D.
- Other services include maternity, gynaecology, neonatal intensive care, emergency, diagnostics, paediatric, surgical, intensive care, coronary care, rehabilitation and mental health.
- Urological referrals are made from all district hospitals in NBMLHD (Lithgow, Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains District Hospitals).

For more detail about this role including training, education and research opportunities and employee benefits please download the Urology Trainee Unaccredited Position Information Sheet.

**Essential requirements**
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered with the Medical Board of Australia in an appropriate registration category.
- At least three years' postgraduate experience in public hospital service (or equivalent).
- Demonstrated clinical practice as a registered medical practitioner in the last 2 years in a setting appropriate to the needs of the position.
- Recent relevant experience in Urology surgery and pre/post-surgical care.
- Valid Working with Children Check, cleared National Police Check.
- To be employed by NSW Health you are required to provide evidence of vaccination to comply with the NSW Health Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases Policy, this includes any amendments made from time to time.

**Selection criteria**
- Qualifications and experience commensurate with the Essential Requirements for the role.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently within a supervised complex clinical environment utilising excellent clinical skills, judgment and expertise.
- Advanced verbal, written and interpersonal skills, with the capacity to vary communication style in line with the understanding of the needs of diverse audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise workloads and display a flexible approach to meet changing situations in a demanding and unpredictable clinical environment.
- Demonstrated commitment to continuing professional development and self-education.
- Demonstrated commitment to quality improvement, patient safety and risk management.

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**Applications Close**: 23, April 2025

**JMO Careers in NBMLHD**
To learn more about working for Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District visit our Junior Medical Officer Careers page.

NBMLHD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal People and people from racial, ethnic or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability.