Neonatal Registrar

**Description**

**‘Creating exceptional health care together.’**

**Position Title**:**Neonatal Registrar (Advanced Trainee)

**Employment Type**:Full time
**Classification**:**Registrar 4 (PGY7+)
**Salary**:$141,084
**Location**:Canberra Hospital, Garran ACT
**Section**:Woman, Youth and Children
**Closing Date**:**28 May 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
- 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

**About the role**:
**This position is being advertised for a** position commencing July 2025 and / or February 2026** for a period of one or two years (depending on individual training requirements) with possible extension**. To be eligible for this position you must be PGY7+.**

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.

Medical Staff in the Canberra Health Services enjoy excellent conditions, and our Enterprise Agreement is available at: ACTPS Medical Practitioners Enterprise Agreement 2021-2022
- The Neonatal Department of the Canberra Hospital is offering neonatal advanced trainee positions in neonatal and perinatal medicine.
Applications are sought for neonatal advanced trainees with at least one year of neonatal intensive care experience.
The Department provides neonatal care to the ACT and surrounding regions. The Canberra Hospital has 3500 deliveries per year and is a principal referral centre for high-risk pregnancies. It is the only tertiary care neonatal unit in the region, which has a delivery population of 10,000. The Canberra Hospital's Centre for Newborn Care has 700-800 admissions per year, 300 requiring respiratory support, with 18 planned intensive care/high dependency beds and 18 special care nursery beds. The department is supported by seven Neonatologists, four Neonatal Advanced Trainees, one Senior Career Medical Officer, ten Neonatal Registrars (paediatric basic/advanced trainees) and three Senior Resident Medical Officers positions. Involvement in Neonatal research is recommended and highly encouraged.
The Neonatal Advanced Trainee will obtain wide experience in all levels of Neonatal Care in a well-supported and energetic environment. The trainee will gain experience with neonatal surgical cases (except cardiac surgery) as well as retrievals through NETS ACT (the local component of NETS ACT/NSW). Support with clinician performed ultrasound training is provided along with attendance at NICU Growth and Development clinics. Positions are accredited for advanced training with RACP.
There is an emphasis on the development of transition to consultant skills which include: undertaking ward rounds, participating in the in the after-hours on-call roster including being first on call for neonatology and NETS, high risk antenatal counselling, training in clinic performed ultrasound and participation in quality assurance, open disclosure, quality improvement and research projects. Note this neonatal advanced training position is equivalent to a “provisional fellow” position.

The trainee will be responsible for ensuring discharge summaries are up to date and accurate as well as organising registrar rosters and journal club rosters.
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy

For more information regarding the position details click here for the Position Description.

Applications must be submitted through the e-recruitment system and must include:

- A copy of a current resumé.
- A response to the selection criteria under “what you require” in no more than two pages, outlining your skills, knowledge and experience and why you should be considered for this role.
- Two referee reports. At least one from a current supervisor. You can download the referee report template here

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**Job**: Junior Medical Officers

**Salary Range**: 141,084.00 - 141,084.00

**Closing Date**: 28/May/2025, 8:59:00 AM