Positions available for 2025 Training Year Paediatric Intensive Care Unit R

at  Northern Regional Alliance NRA

Location: Starship Children’s Hospital
Service: Paediatric Intensive Care
Contract: Fixed term, full time, 6-12 months - starting January or July 2025

E PĀ ANA KI A TATOU - ABOUT US

Starship Hospital is located centrally in Auckland, New Zealand and is co-located with Auckland City Hospital. We are the leading provider of paediatric health care in New Zealand and the South Pacific, delivering tertiary level family centred care to infants, children, young people and their whānau in hospital and in the community. Starship is a major teaching centre and aims to lead the nation in paediatric training and research.
Our values
Haere Mai, Welcome: We see you and welcome you as a person
Manaaki, Respect: We respect, nurture and care for each other
Tūhono, Together: We are a high performing team
Angamua, Aim High: We aspire to excellence and safest care
Auckland, the City of Sails, is a multi-cultural urban oasis of food, music, arts, and culture where lush landscapes meet city sophistication. World-class shopping and phenomenal dining are never too far from harbours, islands, and black-sand beaches. Auckland has much to offer in terms of cafes, sparkling beaches, and native bush walks.

The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Starship is a national service for children requiring intensive care for longer than 24 hours and a regional service for all children requiring intensive care or high dependency care. More than half the children admitted come from outside the greater Auckland region.
The Unit is a combined cardiac and general intensive care facility with a physical capacity for 20 ICU beds and 10 HDU beds, admitting approximately 1100 - 1200 children each year. Approximately 45% of admissions are cardiac, providing pre- and post-operative care for children undergoing treatment for congenital cardiac conditions. General admissions include the full range of medical and surgical conditions and therapies, including liver transplantation, spinal surgery and neurosurgery. All intensive care support techniques are employed; including renal replacement therapy, HFOV (high frequency oscillatory ventilation) and ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation).
PICU also staffs and runs the only dedicated paediatric retrieval service in New Zealand. Children are retrieved from all over New Zealand. There are approximately 300 retrievals each year, with a mix of road, fixed wing and helicopter transfers.
Registrars work a shift roster and are supported by senior medical staff at all times. Specialist paediatric intensivists provide 24 hour 7 day cover. Ours Fellows in Critical Care Medicine also work in a supervisory role for registrars.
There is an active education program which includes access to weekly protected teaching sessions and opportunities to participate in multidisciplinary simulation scenarios. There are additional opportunities to gain advanced skills such as bedside ultrasound and airway experience during paediatric anaesthetic lists for those interested. Registrars also have access to medical education leave to attend other courses and conferences.