Advanced Trainee

**Employment Type**: Temporary Full Time
**Remuneration**:

- **Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: CAM27429- **
Advanced Trainee - Emergency Medicine, Northern Beaches Hospital**
- **Employment Type: Temporary Full Time**
- **Remuneration: As per ‘Public Hospital Medical Officers (State) Award’**
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An exciting opportunity to join the team in the Emergency Department at the Northern Beaches Hospital.**
- **The Advanced Trainee will assess and manage patients presenting to the Emergency Department.**The Northern Beaches is a tier one training site allowing for 36 months of core training**with possible rotations in Anaesthetics, Intensive Care, Acute Medicine and Paediatrics. Approved for paediatric logbook.**
- **Northern Beaches Hospital**
- **Northern Beaches Hospital provides world-class, Level 5 delineation services for both public and private patients. The hospital features 486 beds, 50-bed Emergency Department, 20-bed general and cardiothoracic ICU, 14 fully equipped theatres, including hybrid theatres, two cardiac catheter labs, extensive digital imaging / diagnostic facilities, medical centre collocated with ED, state of the art education and interactive SIM centre and a Helipad for Emergency Transport.**
- **Emergency Trainees will have**:

- **Paid protected weekly education session**
- **Regular rostered non-clinical days to obtain experience in ED administration**
- **Resuscitation-focused training program including advanced airway management, critical care interventions including life-saving surgical procedures, focused cardiac ultrasound and paediatric resuscitation. In situ multidisciplinary simulation and human factors training.**
- **Access to a roster governed by a transparent and equitable roster rules document, which ensures fair spread of shifts and includes principles such as quarantining leave around exams so as to maximally benefit trainees.**
- **Access to a number of free CCPU accredited POCUS courses run in house on an annual basis**
- **Work alongside a highly motivated group of FACEMs with vast experience in toxicology, education, trauma, Ultrasound sports medicine and prehospital and retrieval medicine.**
- **What you'll be doing**
- **The primary purpose of an Advanced Trainee in Emergency Medicine is to provide high quality medical care under appropriate supervision to undifferentiated patients presenting to the Emergency Department.**
**Trainees undertaking the care of medical patients should ensure that they operate within their own level of expertise within a collaborative clinical care model and to seek consultation with their colleagues when appropriate. Advanced Trainees work under a level of supervision according to their competence in the following activities**:
**Taking a leadership role in coordinating the admission, assessment, management, and discharge planning of patients**
**Communicating assessment and management decisions to other staff involved in the patient’s care**
**Communicating with the patient / family regarding the patient’s condition and management plans**
**Coordinating diagnostic tests and consultations with other medical specialists**
**Arranging the patient discharge process and liaising with local medical officers and community-based care modalities for optimal post discharge care**
- THIS POSITION IS BASED AT THE NORTHERN BEACHES HOSPITAL, FRENCHS FOREST, NSW-
- **Qualifications - External** Qualifications and experience commensurate with the Essential Requirements for the role
- Demonstrated ability to work with appropriate independence, commensurate with a level of a Specialist Trainee, within a supervised complex clinical environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the planning, delivery and coordination of patient care.
- Demonstrated high level written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate effectively and respectfully with patients, family members and other members of the health care team.
- Demonstrated good organisational and time management skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a complex environment.
- Demonstrated commitment to quality improvement, patient safety and risk management.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and commitment to self-education.
- Previous experience in and willingness to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and training.-
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