Advanced Trainee

**Employment Type**: Temporary Various

**Remuneration**: $85,668 to $133, 834

**Hours Per Week**: 38

**Requisition ID**: CAM16838

An exciting opportunity to join the General Medicine service within the Illawarra Shoalhaven area as an Advanced Trainee.

**Where you'll be working**
Wollongong Hospital is the Illawarra and Shoalhaven’s major referral and teaching hospital and has a bed base of more than 500. The campus, which incorporates the Illawarra Regional Cancer Care Centre, provides a comprehensive range of inpatient, outpatient and community-based services.

Wollongong is located an hour’s drive south of Sydney on a narrow coastal strip bordered by the Royal National Park to the north, Lake Illawarra to the south, the Tasman Sea to the east and the Illawarra Escarpment to the west. Learn more about the lifestyle benefits of living and working in Wollongong.

Shoalhaven Hospital is a busy rural hospital which employs over 1,000 staff and is the main acute care hospital for the Shoalhaven region, providing emergency care, medical, surgical and orthopaedic services. Shoalhaven Hospital has an Intensive Care Unit focusing on high dependency and coronary patients, Children’s Ward and Maternity Unit as well as a purpose-built regional Cancer Care Centre and sub-acute Mental Health Unit.

Shellharbour Hospital is a 197 bed, acute facility providing a comprehensive range of inpatient, outpatient and community-based services. The inpatient services include aged care, medical, surgical, mental health and acute medical assessment inpatient beds, plus a day surgery unit. The hospital also provides emergency services, elective surgical services, general medical, antenatal and primary family health care, satellite renal dialysis, as well as adolescent and adult mental health services.

Shellharbour is located on the picturesque South Coast of NSW, located over an hour’s drive south of Sydney, and has a rapidly growing population. Surrounded by pristine beaches, renowned fishing/diving spots and rolling hills in the countryside, Shellharbour is rapidly growing with many family friendly attractions. Learn more about the lifestyle benefits of living and working in Shellharbour.

**What you'll be doing**

To provide a high standard of clinical care to patients under supervision, while developing expertise in the practise of General and Acute Care Medicine, in the context of fulfilling the requirement of the RACP for Advanced Training in General and Acute Care Medicine.
The Division of Medicine provides services primarily across the three main hospitals, the Wollongong, Shellharbour and Shoalhaven Hospitals. Wollongong Hospital is the Illawarra and Shoalhaven’s major referral and teaching hospital. It is the region’s tertiary referral hospital which means it has the capacity to treat specialist and complex cases.
The rotations at Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District include: Core General Medicine (Acute) Wollongong Hospital, Core Sub-specialty rotations in Respiratory, Neurology, Gastroenterology; General Medicine (Acute) at Shellharbour Hospital, Core General Medicine (Acute) Shoalhaven Hospital. The position may be required to work within other facilities which are in an approved arrangement with your employer, including rural locations. These facilities may include other NSW public and private hospitals, and facilities in other States.

Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District is committed to equal employment opportunity and embraces diversity and inclusion within its workforce. As such, people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. This includes but is not limited to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, People with Disability, Women and People from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds.

**Please note**: Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.

**All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a TGA approved COVID-19 vaccine prior to commencement with NSW Health OR provide an approved medical contraindication certificate. You will be required to show proof of your COVID-19 vaccination status prior to securing this role. Please also provide proof of booster vaccination, if available.**

**Selection Criteria**
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia
- Eligible for Advanced Training in General and Acute Care Medicine, RACP, by successful completion of both written and clinical examinations
- Demonstrated teamwork, time management and problem solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary clinical team
- Demonstrated competency in clinical skills including effective assessment, care planning, care provision, case management and management of unstable patients
- Demonstrated ability to work independe