PROVISIONAL FELLOW – CARDIOLOGY (INTERVENTIONAL), ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL

Employment Type: Various - Temporary Full Time, Temporary Part Time or Temporary Job Share
Remuneration: As per Public Hospital Medical Officers (State) Award
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM24845
An exciting opportunity to join the team in the Cardiology (Interventional) Department at Royal North Shore 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.
Where you’ll be working - Royal North Shore Hospital
Royal North Shore Hospital is a principal tertiary referral hospital for Northern Sydney Local Health District providing a comprehensive range of complex services to patients from across NSW. It has a strong and proud history in education, research and provision of high quality clinical care. Royal North Shore Hospital provides specialty services including major trauma, severe burns, spinal cord injuries, neonatal intensive care, bone marrow transplantation, neurosurgery and interventional neuroradiology alongside acute medical, surgical, mental health, paediatric, cancer and maternity services. The campus is also home to The Kolling – a medical research institute jointly governed with the University of Sydney
For more information https://www.nslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/RNSH/Pages/default.aspx

The purpose of the position is to provide high level preventative, screening, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation services across general and specialised cardiac medical problems. The Provisional Fellow is expected to be involved in training of coronary intervention and offers an opportunity for the fellow to become involved in the structural heart disease program. The coronary intervention program involves simple and complex coronary angioplasty, interventions from the radial and femoral approach, management of torturous and calcified lesions, bifurcation lesions, chronic total occlusions and the use of rotational artherectomy, cutting balloon and proximal and distal protection devices.
The unit has a specific interest in the management of acute myocardial infarction and has established the concept of a regional heart attack centre where patients with AMI are triaged directly from the ambulance to the cardiac catheter
laboratory.