Hmo3 Critical Care Residents 2024

**Employment Status**

Temporary Full Time

**Program**

People & Culture

**Location**

All Sites

**Hours Per Fortnight**

1444

**Position Summary**

**Barwon Doctors**
- Extend your career with one of the largest and most comprehensive regional health services in Australia
- Ongoing training and professional development in a supported work environment
- Lifestyle A stone throw from the Surf Coast, Bellarine Peninsula and Great Ocean Road

**About Barwon Health**

With over 8,000 staff and more than 1,200 volunteers we provide services to our local community the G21 region which comprises the residents of the City of Greater Geelong, Colac Otway Shire, Golden Plains Shire, Borough of Queenscliff and Surf Coast Shire. Barwon Health has 1,016 beds across our sites, including 363 residential aged care beds.
- We provide services from University Hospital Geelong, the McKellar Centre in North Geelong, Barwon Health North, Swanston Centre and Mental Health Community Hubs across the region.
- We are one of four public radiation oncology providers in Victoria.
- We have a public private partnership with Epworth Healthcare to help deliver surgery and day oncology
- We are a major teaching hospital so have relationships with Deakin University, University of Melbourne and Monash University.

We have recently opened:

- Youang Surgery Centre
- Mental Health Hub in Emergency Department
- Aged Acute Psychiatry Facility at McKellar
- McKellar Paediatric Rehabilitation Centre

And we look forward to welcoming soon:

- Adrian Costa Clinical Trials Centre: Victoria's first regional clinical trials centre
- Paediatric Emergency Hub in the Emergency Department at UHG
- Barwon Health Women's & Children's Hospital
- Early Parenting Centre at McKellar
- Barwon Health Surfcoast Hospital
- Central Geelong Mental Health, Drugs and Alcohol Community Hub

To find out more about the Geelong region, visit our Moving to the Region page on the Barwon Health website.

**About the Role**

The HMO3 Critical Care stream pathway offers many training experiences, suitable to your specific needs.

The year planner includes 1 term of ICU, 1 term at Hamilton Hospital Emergency Department and 1 cover term including nights and a 5 week block of annual leave alongside either Anaesthetics, Cardiology or Emergency at Geelong Hospital.

If you are interested in the Emergency Medicine Certificate (EMC) please identify this preference when answering the key selection criteria.

The Critical Care Year plus the Emergency Medicine Certificate will be offered by the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM). The Emergency Medicine Certificate (EMC) Training Program provides doctors working in Emergency Departments (EDs) with adequate knowledge and sufficient clinical experience to be safe and efficient practitioners. The EMC is a six-month competency-based training program conducted in an Emergency Setting under the supervision of an approved EMC Supervisor. The position offered includes 3 months at UHG ED under direct supervision of a FACEM and 3 months at the Hamilton Base hospital. The UHG FACEMs visit Hamilton Base Hospital on a monthly basis and are available weekly to review and discuss cases. The EMC can also be the pathway to complete a Diploma in Emergency Medicine also offered by ACEM.

**About The Culture**

Aside from the clinical experience and the camaraderie amongst the staff, Barwon Health is perfectly positioned at the gateway to the Bellarine Peninsula and the Great Ocean Road.

While work can be busy and challenging, there are many people to support our junior medical workforce including individual supervisors, mentors, Medical Education and Training Unit and the Medical Workforce Unit.

Outside of work, there's much to do and plenty of great places to explore.

Many who come to work at Barwon Health choose to stay long term and build their life here and this has created a wonderful community of health care professionals, dedicated to providing excellent care to our patients.

Come for a tour and stay for some work - you'll love the change

**Barwon Health staff benefits**
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development
- Access to employee wellness facility
- Salary packaging
- Social club

**Diversity and Inclusion**

At Barwon Health we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where we value each person's uniqueness. We embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, whilst providing high-quality health care to all members of our community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.

We Barwon Health are proud to be Totally Smoke Free.

**_ Applicants for this role must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and influenza and meet the requirements of the Barwon Health immunisation policy_**_._**

**Selection Criteria**

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