Paediatric Endocrine Advanced Trainee

**Description**

**‘Creating exceptional health care together.’**
- POSITION DESCRIPTION

**Position Title**:Paediatric Endocrine Advanced Trainee

**Employment Type**:Full Time
**Classification**: Registrar 1 - 4
**Salary**: $112,917 - $141,084 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:The Canberra Hospital, Garran ACT
**Section**: Women, Youth & Children
**Closing Date: 5 January 2025**

**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 4 + by February 2025**

**POSITION OVERVIEW**:

- The Canberra Hospital is a major teaching centre for the ACT and surrounding regions and is strongly associated with The Australian National University Clinical School. The Department of Paediatrics at The Canberra Hospital provides general paediatric services to approximately 450 inpatients and 1000 outpatients each month. The Department is staffed by 6.3 Staff Specialists (3.8 FTE General Paediatrics, 2 Endocrinology, 1 Gastroenterology and General Paediatrics), 5 VMOs, a general paediatric Senior Registrar, 8 Registrars and 8 Residents. The Canberra Hospital has 48 in-patient paediatric beds (High Care, Medical, Adolescent and Surgical) and a busy 18 room outpatient department.
- The Department of Paediatrics is accredited by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and is a site for the RACP Fellowship clinical examinations.
- The Paediatric Endocrinology Advanced Trainee provides care for patients and families in both inpatient and outpatient settings at a level of skill and autonomy consistent with Advanced Training in Paediatric Endocrinology.
- This is an opportunity for Trainees who are subspecialising in Endocrinology to gain further training in Paediatric Endocrinology. Advanced trainees wishing to subspecialise in Paediatric Endocrinology will need to complete their core training in a tertiary children’s hospital network.
- The Advanced Trainee is a senior member of the Junior Medical Officer (JMO) team. They will work closely within a multi-disciplinary team and deal with matters of an urgent or sensitive nature, exercising discretion, sensitivity and maintaining confidentiality. Decision making and supervision will be at the appropriate level according to the trainee’s skills, knowledge and experience. All patients managed within the Canberra health service (CHS) / network are managed 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.

**DUTIES**:
Under limited direction of a Paediatric Endocrinologist you will perform assessments, undertake investigations and initiate management in both the inpatient and outpatient settings for children presenting with primarily endocrine disorders.

You will:
**Clinical Duties**:
1. Provide competent and efficient clinical management of infants, children and adolescents with Endocrine Disorders under the supervision and direction of a Consultant Medical Practitioner(s). The clinical management includes acute admissions, inpatient care, outpatient care, inter-disciplinary consults and clinical handover.

2. Work within a multidisciplinary clinical team.

3. Participate in the after-hours on-call Paediatric Endocrine roster.
- Support junior medical staff in the management of acutely unwell Endocrine patients.
- Attend Regular Outpatient Paediatric Endocrine clinics.
- Currency in Advanced Paediatric Life Support or to be attained within three months of commencement.
- Completion of hospital mandatory training in accordance with hospital guidelines

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

**Education/ Research**:

- 1. Demonstrate progress in training including participation in relevant teaching program activities and involvement in research.
- 2. To participate in on-going professional development activities and to encourage similar practices in departmental staff.
- 3. Participate in the supervision, training and professional development of junior medical staff and medical students.
- 4. To coordinate t