SA HEALTH

Job reference: 887932
Location: 5006 - NORTH ADELAIDE
Job status: Ongoing

Eligibility: Open to Everyone

• Women’s and Children’s Health Network, Surgical Services, North Adelaide (5006)
• Salary/Classification - MD2 - Consultant / Senior Consultant - $416,551 to $605,769
• Employment Part time - Ongoing Permanent

ABOUT US

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

• specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
• state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
• community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
• specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.
Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.
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We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Paediatric Anaesthesia team as a Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, where you will be responsible for:

• Provision of safe, effective, and efficient anaesthesia in accordance with the relevant standards set by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.
• Provide anaesthesia for elective and emergency procedures (in-hours and on-call).
• Ensuring that patients/families are given adequate information upon which to base treatment decision and follow-up.
• Ensure clear and accurate documentation throughout the anaesthetic process.
• Provide appropriate post-operative care from anaesthesia through the Post Anaesthesia Care Unit to the ward

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or equivalent medical degree
• Appropriate Specialist Qualifications and registrable with the Medical Board of Australia as a Medical Practitioner with Specialist registration; or another qualification as defined in the SA Health Visiting Medical Specialists Enterprise Agreement.
• Clinical excellence and extensive experience in the specialty of Paediatric Anaesthesia.
• Understanding both the rights and responsibilities of patients and their families.
• Work independently and under limited direction to meet deadlines and achieve agreed outputs.
• Communicate, both verbally and in writing, to a wide range of people on a range of sensitive and complex issues