Intensive Care Unit Registrar

**Description**

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

**Position Title: Phase 1**Intensive Care Unit Registrar

**Employment Type**:Full Time
**Classification**:Registrar 1 - 4
**Salary**: $112,917 - $141,084 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:The Canberra Hospital, Woden. North Canberra Hospital, Bruce.
**Section**:Division of Surgery
**Closing Date: 290 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**

North Canberra Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit is a tertiary level, mixed adult Intensive Care admitting over 2500 patients a year. The ICU is accredited by the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM).

A Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine plays a key role in the delivery of medical care to critically ill patients. Supervised by the intensive care specialists, provisional fellows and senior registrars, intensive care registrars are expected to provide supervision for the critical care senior resident medical officers, as well as direct clinical care for patients.
- We offer a structured teaching program tailored for the needs of the individual junior or advanced trainee while providing support from Staff Specialists experienced in the practice of Intensive Care Medicine. For those in the training program we can tailor the training experience to include rotations to Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital ICU in Nowra which is accredited for rural training through CICM, and medicine, anaesthesia, and ED rotations.

**It is not expected that all appointees will be registered with the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM), and trainees from ANZCA and FACEM may be considered suitable for appointment to this role. It is expected that an ICU registrar has some previous experience at a junior level in the ICU, such as previous resident medical officer in an Intensive Care Unit. It is also expected that an ICU registrar will have some basic airway skills and be familiar with the procedure of central line placement though may not hold competency for independent insertion at the commencement of their training year.**:

- Our registrar positions are also accredited for training in Anaesthesia through FANZCA and Emergency Medicine through FACEM. A well-established helicopter retrieval service is associated with the campus, Capital Regional Retrieval Service.

Rotations may include:

- Emergency Medicine, Canberra Hospital Woden, North Canberra Hospital - Bruce
- Intensive Care Medicine, Canberra Hospital Woden, North Canberra Hospital - Bruce

**Duties**:

- Provide competent and efficient clinical management of patients of Canberra Health Services under the supervision and direction of Specialist Medical Practitioner’s. While clinical management includes acute admissions, in-patient care, attendance and participation in the Medical Emergency Team, inter-disciplinary consults and clinical handover.

Participate in the supervision, training and professional development of ICU junior medical staff and undergraduate medical students.

Training in the specialty including participation in the relevant teaching program and activities, timely completion of assessments and involvement in research.

Participate in the junior medical staff roster including night shifts as required for the operational needs of the intensive care unit as defined by the Division of Surgery, Canberra Hospital Consultation Paper detailing the roster and leave approval process for junior medical officers in the Intensive Care Unit.

Contribute to clinical audit and participate in changes that improve quality and safety of patient care.
- Maintain adequate and legible medical records and ensure that the clinical team completes discharge summaries in a timely manner.
- 7. Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.

**About you**:
**Behavioural Capabilities**
- The ability to efficiently manage and prioritise own workload.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to appropriately manage difficult conversations with