POSITION DESCRIPTION

Position Title: Intensive Care Transition Year Career Medical Officer
Employment Type: Full time
Classification: Career Medical Officer Grade Two
Salary: $176,425 to $209,516 (pa)
Location: Canberra Hospital, Garran ACT
Section: Intensive Care Unit, Division of Surgery
Closing Date: 17 August 2025

HOW TO APPLY OR WANT TO KNOW MORE?

Applications must be submitted through the e-recruitment system and must include:

• A copy of a current resumé.
• A response to the selection criteria under “what you require” in no more than two pages, outlining your skills, knowledge and experience and why you should be considered for this role.
• Two referee reports. At least one from a current supervisor. You can download the referee report template here

CHS Contact: Dr Manoj Singh, Unit Director ICU, 02 5124 5088 or CHS.ICUAdmin@act.gov.au

This position is for a February 2026 commencement for a period of 12 months. To be eligible for this position you must be PGY4+ and meet the essential qualifications and experience as outlined in the position description.
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person-centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding regions. More information can be found on the CHS website.
Medical Staff in the Canberra Health Services enjoy excellent conditions, and our Enterprise Agreement is available at: ACTPS Medical Practitioners Enterprise Agreement 2021-2022
Canberra Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a tertiary level, mixed adult ICU that admits over 2500 patients a year. Our ICU is accredited by the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) for two years of core training and for the sub-specialities of Trauma, Cardiothoracic, and Neurosurgery.
We have a team of supportive Intensive Care specialists with a diverse range of skills and experience that provide both clinical and non-clinical support to our trainees.
Canberra Hospital’s ICU has accreditation by the CICM for two years of general training including neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery and trauma ICU. We have a strong educational focus as well as a well-established research program providing opportunities to participate in multi-centre national and international trials as well as home grown research.
The transition year career medical officer fellowship position at Canberra Hospital ICU aims to fulfil the training requirements of CICM’s final 12 months of its intensive care training program (also known as the Transition Year). It is a transitional fellowship year between that of a phase 2 trainee to a junior specialist, with flexibility and graded responsibility to allow increasing clinical autonomy and responsibilities including directing patient management, supervising, and managing the multidisciplinary clinical team, collaborating with other multi-specialty clinicians, and providing first on call cover whilst being supervised with an immediately available intensivist. This position will be part of the specialist clinical roster and will have support and supervision from a dedicated intensivist to mature in that role.
The role will allow the candidate to develop higher skills in education, critical care echocardiography and ultrasound, research and administration aligned with the CICM requirement for the transitional year training. You will be expected to contribute to activities such as leading and coordinating the education program for junior medical staff (including journal club and echocardiography teaching), assisting with trainee CICM examination preparation, facilitating local delivery of courses such as BASIC, beyond BASIC, Canberra ICU Course, Canberra Airway Course, Introduction to Procedures in Acute Care (IPAC) and Canberra Critical Care Echo Course. Additionally, you will be supported to undertake external training and gain qualifications within the education, research, or critical care echocardiography domain.
Trainees will have clinical exposure to a broad range of critically ill patients. There will be a graded responsibility to allow increasing clinical autonomy in this formalized transition year role. The case-mix is split between medical and surgical patients with 60% of admissions being unplanned exposing trainees to wide variety of medica cases, post cardiothoracic, neurosurgical, vascular, upper GI, colorectal and ENT surgeries.

The trainee will be provided with a minimum of 15-20% protected rostered hours in which they will fulfill their clinical support duties and pursue one of the portfolios outlined below:

• Research
• Education and simulation
• Ultrasound/ECHO
• Medical administration

It is expected that all appointees will be registered with the CICM and have completed their CICM Part 2 examination. Completion of the project requirement for Fellowship is not required for appointment to this position.