Intensive Care Unit, Provisional Fellow, Nepean Hospital

Nepean Hospital is an important referral and teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. It serves the local areas of Penrith, Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains (comprising a population of 300,000 and growing) and accepts patients from as far as Lithgow and Bathurst flown in by helicopter retrieval services. Nepean Hospital is the Regional Trauma Centre for these areas. ICU positions are accredited with the CICM (ANZ), RACP, ANZCA, and ACEM for Intensive Care Training. Fellows are encouraged to prepare for appropriate exams.

The primary purpose of the position is to provide quality intensive care medicine to patients in a complex clinical environment. There will be approximately 30% non-clinical time provided to help drive initiative such as teaching, education, quality projects, echocardiography training etc.

Provisional Fellows work under the supervision of specialist Intensive Care physicians to manage patients requiring support in the ICU. The position is flexible and has graded responsibility to allow increasing clinical autonomy, and development of skills in research and administration, to build on those skills and attributes acquired in the early years of training and assist the movement of the trainee into specialist practice.

The Intensive Care Unit provides a Medical Emergency Team service to the hospital and therefore the Provisional Fellow needs to be confident in all forms of emergency situations, including ability to independently perform procedures.

The Nepean Hospital Intensive Care Unit is highly involved in both local and multi centre trials. The ICU Provisional Fellow is involved in recruitment and patient management in regards to research trials.

What you'll be doing

• Making a timely, structured and accurate assessment of a comprehensive range of life-threatening problems in a critically ill patient and apply life supporting therapy.
• This position is for senior intensive care trainees who have a special interest in research, education, echocardiography or other significant ICU non-clinical portfolios.
• Have opportunity to gain academic oriented experience and develop research skills and educational techniques.
• Take a leadership role within a busy ICU, overseeing change management.
• Teach other clinical staff, to ensure an optimal learning environment, promote growth and development of others, and to develop skills in teaching.
• Participate in a 24/7 roster and may be rostered to day, evening or night shifts across a seven day roster. Roster will be no less than 80% clinical and 20% non-clinical.

Where you'll be working

• 24 bed unit.
• Workforce includes: 8 Staff Specialists, 1 Clinical Superintendent, 1 Echo Fellow, 1 Professorial fellow (involved in research / education / other), 1 ARTIC fellow (helps manage and educate outreach / MET service), 1 Provisional Fellow (typically undertaking fellowship exams), 11 Trainees, 4 Senior Medical Resident Officers and 4 Residents.