UNACCREDITED TRAINEE – GENERAL SURGERY, 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: CAM24835
An exciting opportunity to join the team in the General Surgery Departments (Upper GI (hepatobiliary and oesophagogastric), Colorectal, Endocrine and Breast Surgery) 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 primary purpose of the role is to provide effective clinical management of surgical patients, under appropriate supervision, whilst developing expertise in medical practice, in a complex clinical environment. This is a Unaccredited Trainee role, where you will gain experience across all general surgical subspecialties at Royal North Shore Hospital. The role will involve spending one week at a time on each of the subspecialty teams (Upper GI (hepatobiliary and oesophagogastric), Colorectal, Endocrine and Breast Surgery).
This will be on a rotational basis, working in place of the Accredited Trainee on each team, while the Accredited Trainees in turn rotate to cover the ASU. This will allow the Uncredited Trainee to form close working relationships with the Consultants and Fellows on those services. It will provide good opportunity to gain experience in managing and caring for complex surgical patients, both inpatients and outpatients. The approximate breakdown of cover across the specialities over the course of the clinical year will be as follows: 20 weeks of upper GI, 18 weeks of colorectal and 14 weeks of endocrine/breast surgery. There will be no night shift cover required. After-hours ASU cover (weekends and evenings) will be expected at a frequency of one in six, shared with the Accredited Trainees.