Mid-year Intake 2025 Anaesthesia Provisional Fellow

Job Description

**Posting Start Date**:13/11/2024**Req ID**:2204**Job Title**:Mid-Year Intake 2025 Anaesthesia Provisional Fellow**Employment Status**:Fixed Term Full Time**Job Location**:Frankston**Mid-year intake August 2025 - February 2026 (Term3 & Term4)**

**Anaesthesia Provisional Fellow**
**Immerse yourself in an inclusive, diverse and supportive culture**
**Frankston, Mornington Peninsula & surrounding locations**

As a Provisional Fellow in Anaesthesia at Peninsula Health, you will be part of a collaborative and supportive team of approximately 60 Specialist Anaesthetists, 20 accredited ANZCA trainees, 15 anaesthetic RMOs, 4 Acute Pain Clinical Nurse Consultants, 1 Research Nurse and 2 Personal Assistants. We operate in 18 theatres/anaesthetising locations across two campuses, supporting a busy emergency department, ICU, and delivery suite in addition to elective surgery. We provide anaesthetic and perioperative care for a broad range of procedural specialties, including general surgery, orthopaedics, thoracics, urology, vascular, ENT, fasciomax, obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatric, gastroenterology, respiratory, radiology, cardiology and ECT.

Work is well underway on a large hospital expansion/new building that will consist of 17 new operating theatres, with scope for continual expansion of clinical services offered by Peninsula Health and exciting future employment opportunities.

The preference is for 6 months full time PFY positions.

**Who We Are and What We Stand For**

Peninsula Health is the major metropolitan health service caring for a community of 300,000 people on the Mornington Peninsula and surround areas. Our Vision is to provide exceptional health and community care. To realise this vision we need people who strive for a sense of achievement, take an interest in their individual growth, enjoy innovation and looking for ways to improve and have a passion for communicating and connecting with others. In representing Peninsula Health, we expect all employees and volunteers to reflect our values**:Be the Best, Be a Role Model, Be Open and Honest, Be Compassionate and Respectful and Be Collaborative.** We are One Peninsula Health.

**What You Will Be Doing**
- Provision of anaesthetic care of adult and paediatric patients in the operating theatres/anaesthetising locations of Frankston Hospital (13) and Frankston Public Surgical Centre (5), including preoperative and postoperative care
- Support junior trainees in the provision of Acute Pain Service
- Support junior trainees in the provision of Labour Epidural Analgesia in the Birthing Suite (~3000 deliveries/year)
- Provision of care when required in the care of critically unwell patients in the wards or emergency department.
- Participate in quality assurance and other departmental activities such as audits, research and special projects as required
- Participate in wellbeing and welfare support of junior trainees

As a Provisional Fellow in 2025, in addition to general PFY responsibilities, there will be the opportunity to pursue a specific theme/area of interest and lead/assist with related activities, for example:

- **Simulation and Education** - Simulation Centre (anaesthetic and non-anaesthetic sessions), in-situ Simulation/teaching in theatre/other critical care areas, Airway Courses, anaesthetic registrar/resident teaching programs, nursing in-services, support for related study or research activities
- **Regional Anaesthesia **- Rostering to regional-amenable surgical lists and perioperative care, regional anaesthesia teaching, related audit and QA activities, support for related study or research activities
- **Perioperative Medicine** - Pre-Admission Clinic, Perioperative Medicine/Orthogeriatric ward rounds, protocol and pathway development, support for Periop Med-related study or research
- **Anaesthesia Research **- Associate investigator role in local single-centre and large multi-centre ANZCA-CTN investigative trials, support for own research ideas
- **Anaesthetic Anaphylaxis **- Intravenous drug safety challenge clinic, assist with referrals for anaphylaxis clinic, assist with anaphylaxis simulation sessions, support for related study or research

For a more in-depth view of the role, please refer to the Position Description

**What You Need**

We anticipate you will have:

- AHPRA Registration
- ANZCA PFY Eligibility
- Completed (or expected to complete before commencement) ANZCA Fellowship Exam
- Ability to work dynamically and collaboratively

**What Next**

If you experience any issues signing in or registering, please feel welcome to contact us - the People, Experience & Performance Team on (03) 9784 2700.

**Additional Requirements**

This role must meet the requirements of the Peninsula Health immunisation policy.

**Join Peninsula Health and help us to deliver safe, personal, effective & connected care to every person, every time.