We are an accredited unit with CICM and ACEM
Excellent supervision by a team of Intensive Care Specialists
Excellent array of intensive care medicine with abundant procedural experience
1FTE available ICU 2years
1FTE available ICU 18months and ED 6months, opportunity to extend Emergency time if interested
Flexible work arrangements can be considered
Where you'll be working
With 348 treatment spaces, we are the major Rural Referral Hospital to the North West of NSW. We conduct over 9000 surgical procedures per annum over 5 theatre spaces; with the new facility boasting an additional 3 theatre rooms which have been built for future growth.ICU is a 12-bed unit including a four-bed HDU and admits approximately 950 patients a year of which 30% are ventilated. Both ED and ICU receive patients from rural sites retrieved by the local Westpac Helicopter Retrieval Service which has a base in Tamworth.
The department is led by a group of dynamic FCICMs who promote an active, stimulating, and supportive work environment.
Applicants will be competent in core ICU resuscitative skills such as Intubation, intercostal catheter placement, and central venous cannulation. Along with the consultant they will provide support to ICU SRMOs
What you'll be doing
The primary purpose of the position is to manage patients requiring intensive care, those at risk of clinical deterioration requiring intensive care, plus pre- and post-intensive care evaluation, as directed and overseen by supervising consultants; while developing expertise in medical practice, in a complex clinical environment.
Critically ill patients include patients with life-threatening single and multiple organ system failure, those at risk of clinical deterioration as well as those requiring resuscitation and/or management in an intensive care unit. Trainees in unaccredited positions in the Intensive Care Department work under supervision, assisting to manage, diagnose and treat the disturbances associated with severe medical, surgical, obstetric and paediatric illness and the conditions that cause them. This may include management of deteriorating and seriously ill patients outside the intensive care unit as well as the intra-hospital transport of critically ill patients.