Trainee

**Employment Type**: Temporary Various
**Remuneration**:
- **Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: CAM25201
**Where you'll be working**

The Wagga Wagga Health Service has undergone a $431 million redevelopment. It was delivered in three stages and completed in 2021. The health campus includes:

- 325 bed referral hospital called Wagga Wagga Base Hospital. Opened in 2017, it supports over 40,000 emergency presentations, 1,100 births and approximately 11,000 operations each year.
- 24 hour Emergency Department equipped with telehealth cameras to connect the team in Wagga Wagga with other specialists or GPs across the state through the Critical Care Advisory Service, ensuring you get the care you need.
- A purpose-built Health Services Hub which opened in 2021. The new facility, linked to the Wagga Wagga Base Hospital, offers a range of important services from a single site.The multi-storey building accommodates acute aged care inpatient beds, rehabilitation inpatient beds, an older person's mental inpatient unit, Hospital in the Home, expanded renal dialysis unit, expanded oral (dental) service, 60 clinic rooms and treatment spaces for allied health, outpatient, and community health services. There is also a Staff Hub and 30 staff meeting rooms of varying sizes with an electronic booking system and the latest presentation technology; a new lecture theatre and two nearby conference rooms, new clinical education and training spaces, including a simulation room and skills area and facilities for virtual training; a library, a dedicated Aboriginal meeting room and cultural courtyard; cafe; new multi-faith space; and facilitiies for corporate volunteers. There is also secure parking for fleet vehicles under the Health Services Hub.
- A specialised Mental Health Unit, which opened in 2013, to provide a large modern and comfortable facility. Community mental health services are co-located on the campus in the new Health Services Hub.

Wagga Wagga Health Service provides services including critical care, medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric, and rehabilitation care. We also provide mental health and community health services. We work with a team of specialists which include cardiovascular, gastroenterology, renal medicine, obstetrics, orthopaedics, psychiatry and paediatrics. There is also the provision of a full range of allied health and support services such as oral health, physiotheraphy, occupational therapy, sexual health and violence prevention and response services.

**Location**

Wagga Wagga is the largest regional city in NSW with an urban population of over 60,000 residents, nestled on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River.

Wagga Wagga offers a myriad of activities to enjoy, including a wonderful selection of restaurants, cafes, markets and wineries, galleries and museums. It has terrific gradens and recreational areas and caters to both the cultural and sporting enthusiasts.

There are extensive education options from early childhood through to tertiary; including public and private primary and secondary schools, the TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Charles Sturt University, The University of NSW Rural Clinical School, and The University of Notre Dame - Rural clinical School.

**What you'll be doing**

There are 2 rehabilitation physicians that provide the following rehabilitation services to Wagga Wagga Base Hospital and the Murrumbidgee Local Health District: 16 inpatient subacute beds, in-reach to acute MDT, outpatient (weekly general rehabilitation medicine, fortnightly separate prosthetic & orthotic clinics), consultancy to the High Risk Foot Clinic, telehealth/MDT outreach inpatient and a telehealth/onsite inpatient to Mercy Care Centre Young.
There are 2 AFRM fully accredited training positions at WWBH. These positions can be for 6-12 months duration. Trainees will gain experience in the management of all conditions seen in Rehabilitation Medicine, such as the more common stroke/neurological, post orthopaedic procedures, deconditioning but also amputations, SCI and TBI.

The trainee will provide a rehabilitation consultative service in conjunction with the supervising specialist to inpatients and non-inpatients within the facility, assist in the development and implementation of a goal orientated rehabilitation plan, the coordination of rehabilitation treatment and referral to other facilities as required.

Under supervision, the Rehabilitation Medicine Trainee will provide effective medical services to patients as part of the multidisciplinary team and develop expertise in Medical Rehabilitation practice, in order to successfully participate in and complete Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (AFRM) training.
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered with the Medical Board of Australia
- Registered as an AFRM trainee or planning to register for the AFRM training program
- High level skills and involvement in clinical care, supervision, mentoring and teaching. Able to exercise a mod