ICU Education Fellow

at  Queensland Health

Metro South Health is Australia’s first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland’s population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

• To provide education and training to medical students and other staff. This will be supervised by the University of Queensland. 50% of the FTE of the role will be for this purpose.
• The appointee who is undertaking the Transitional Year of the CICM training will initially work on the Senior registrar roster. Over the course of the year, they will gradually progress under supervision and be given more responsibility. Towards the end of the year, if progress is satisfactory, they will work on the consultant roster under supervision. Progression of responsibility and level of supervision will be dependent on satisfactory performance.
• The appointee who is not undertaking the Transitional Year of the CICM training will work on the registrar roster and be provided with supervision suitable for their level of training.
• Provision of inpatient care including:
• Assessing patients, determining, and instigating appropriate investigations
• Establish management plan for patients in consultation with the consultant
• Where appropriate, ensuring that discharge planning commences early in the process of care
• Communicating assessment findings, proposed management plans and alternatives to patient and carers and seek consent
• Gathering input from appropriate multidisciplinary team for patients ongoing clinical care
• Continually monitoring and reviewing patient progress and adjusting the management plan when necessary
• Ensuring appropriate and timely communication to health care providers and carers to ensure ongoing patient care post-hospital stay.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.
Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 (Health Employment Directive No. 12/21 (PDF) and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70 (PDF))
You can find out more about why it’s so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License

• To provide education and training to medical students and other staff. This will be supervised by the University of Queensland. 50% of the FTE of the role will be for this purpose.
• The appointee who is undertaking the Transitional Year of the CICM training will initially work on the Senior registrar roster. Over the course of the year, they will gradually progress under supervision and be given more responsibility. Towards the end of the year, if progress is satisfactory, they will work on the consultant roster under supervision. Progression of responsibility and level of supervision will be dependent on satisfactory performance.
• The appointee who is not undertaking the Transitional Year of the CICM training will work on the registrar roster and be provided with supervision suitable for their level of training.
• Provision of inpatient care including:
• Assessing patients, determining, and instigating appropriate investigations
• Establish management plan for patients in consultation with the consultant
• Where appropriate, ensuring that discharge planning commences early in the process of care
• Communicating assessment findings, proposed management plans and alternatives to patient and carers and seek consent
• Gathering input from appropriate multidisciplinary team for patients ongoing clinical care
• Continually monitoring and reviewing patient progress and adjusting the management plan when necessary
• Ensuring appropriate and timely communication to health care providers and carers to ensure ongoing patient care post-hospital stay