Provisional Fellow

**WSLHD - JMO - Provisional Fellow - Anaesthesia, Airway**

**Employment Type**: Temporary Various

**Remuneration**:
- **Hours Per Week**: 38

**Requisition ID**: CAM18854
- **Provisional Fellowship in Airway Anaesthesia**

Westmead Hospital caters to a diverse catchment area and provides exposure to a large volume of complex and unique cases. The centre specialises in airway trauma, advanced oncology and reconstructive procedures. In addition, the centre sees a large volume of high-risk groups such as bariatric and obstetric populations.

There are several head and neck oncology and ENT teams operating at Westmead, allowing for experience in awake tracheostomies, jet ventilation, lung isolation techniques and even the use of ECMO in select complex airways. Furthermore, the fellow will learn to manage dental and maxillo-facial lists for paediatric and special needs patients.
In this role, the fellow is expected to attend multi-disciplinary meetings to identify and develop a comprehensive management plan of complex patients. Non-clinical roles include involvement in SIM based CICO teaching, and SMAART and RAAD courses. The fellow will also be encouraged to conduct research and clinical audits throughout the year, with opportunities to generate policy and present at clinical meetings. The fellowship is structured but allows flexibility to cater to the individual’s interests and requirements.

**Where you'll be working**
Westmead Hospital is a key facility of one of Australia’s largest major health and medical research precincts and is the principal referral hospital for Western Sydney Local Health District providing district level health services to Parramatta, Holroyd and The Hills Shire LGAs including tertiary and quaternary services to greater Western Sydney, greater metropolitan Sydney, rural NSW and other states. The Westmead Health Precinct currently under development is envisaged to be the largest hospital building project undertaken in Western Sydney and will transform the iconic but ageing Westmead Hospital into an innovative, contemporary, and integrated centre that will continue to deliver high quality healthcare and expand the education, health, and research capability of the area.

Westmead Hospital is a leading centre of research, training and specialisation in all fields of Medicine and Dentistry, providing services in Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Kidney and Pancreas transplantation, Cancer Care, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Neonatal Intensive Care, Trauma, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Critical Care, Aged Care and Rehabilitation, Adult Acute Psychiatry (networked with the co-located Cumberland Hospital) as well as other specialised medical and surgical services.

Westmead Hospital is also the principal referral centre for other metropolitan hospitals within the district including Auburn Hospital, Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital.

Intensive care service in Westmead hospital includes 36 general, and 10 post cardiothoracic surgical ICU beds. General ICU bed numbers have expanded by 50% in early 2020. Cardiothoracic ICU has also recently moved into a newly built ICU pod. Common ICU admissions include complex medical cases such as sepsis, severe respiratory or cardiac failure, complicated bone marrow transplant, and surgical cases including trauma, neurosurgery, vascular, cardiothoracic, ENT, plastic surgery, urology, upper GI, hepatobiliary, and colorectal procedures.

**What you'll be doing**
- Airway lists including complex head and neck oncology cases, ENT (laser, jet ventilation and standard ENT procedures), interventional and diagnostic bronchoscopy (EBUS, cryobiopsies, bronchial valves). Other lists including both paediatric and adult maxillofacial and dental lists.
- General (non-airway related) lists to maintain exposure to a wide array of surgical specialities.
- Perioperative management including planning and optimisation of difficult airway cases at the high-risk airway clinic. Attendance at multi-disciplinary clinic with head and neck, and reconstructive surgeons, to learn nasendoscopy skills and formulate management plans.
- Supporting other specialties such as the emergency department and intensive care department with difficult intubations, including suspected or confirmed COVID positive patients.
- Teaching advanced airway skills to the anaesthetic department and wider hospital. Facilitating CICO teaching and the ongoing development of signature RADD and the SMAART airway course.

**Employee Benefits**
- Fitness Passport, Salary Packaging

**For Further Information**
- WSLHD 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.

**SELECTION CRITERIA**
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia in an appropriate registration