Advanced Trainee

at  Northern Sydney Local Health District

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM24356
An exciting opportunity to join the General Medicine Department at Ryde Hospital. Rewarding career opportunities are available at NSLHD and offer a flexible career with a diverse and interesting case mix where medical staff are involved in all aspects of a patient’s care.

Medical Officer (AMO). The Advanced Trainee will spend 12 months in this accredited position in General Medicine and may in addition gain experience in specialty areas including Neurology, Renal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Geriatric Medicine, Respiratory Medicine and Endocrinology.

• Qualifications and experience commensurate with the Essential Requirements for the role.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the planning, delivery and coordination of patient care.
• High level communication skills, including the ability to convey, and adapt verbal and written information to a clinical and non-clinical audience
• Demonstrated good organisational and time management skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a complex environment.
• Demonstrated high level independent clinical skills and judgement, with the ability to make sound decisions and problem solve with an awareness of limitations and ability to learn independently and modify behaviour accordingly.
• Previous experience in and willingness to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and training.
• Demonstrated interest and commitment to General and Acute Care Medicine Advanced Training program including ongoing education, research and training

To provide effective clinical management of patients, under appropriate supervision, including patient assessment, making treatment decisions, performing procedures and maintaining adequate medical records; and to develop expertise in medical practice, in a complex clinical environment. This includes supervised general medical management of patients admitted to specialist departments in consultation with the Attending Medical Officer (AMO). The General Medicine Advanced Trainee is expected to adopt a progressively more independent approach to patient management according to their experience, under the guidance of, and at the discretion of the Attending

Medical Officer (AMO). The Advanced Trainee will spend 12 months in this accredited position in General Medicine and may in addition gain experience in specialty areas including Neurology, Renal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Geriatric Medicine, Respiratory Medicine and Endocrinology.

• Qualifications and experience commensurate with the Essential Requirements for the role.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the planning, delivery and coordination of patient care.
• High level communication skills, including the ability to convey, and adapt verbal and written information to a clinical and non-clinical audience
• Demonstrated good organisational and time management skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a complex environment.
• Demonstrated high level independent clinical skills and judgement, with the ability to make sound decisions and problem solve with an awareness of limitations and ability to learn independently and modify behaviour accordingly.
• Previous experience in and willingness to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and training.
• Demonstrated interest and commitment to General and Acute Care Medicine Advanced Training program including ongoing education, research and training.