**WSLHD - Trainee - Neonatology (Westmead)**
**Employment Type**: Temporary Various
**Remuneration**: As per Public Health Medical Officers State Award
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: CAM17535
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**Where you'll be working**
Westmead Hospital is a key facility of one of Australia's largest major health and medical research precincts and is the principal referral hospital for Western Sydney Local Health District providing district level health services to Parramatta, Holroyd and The Hills Shire LGAs including tertiary and quaternary services to greater Western Sydney, greater metropolitan Sydney, rural NSW and other states. The Westmead Health Precinct currently under development is envisaged to be the largest hospital building project undertaken in Western Sydney and will transform the iconic but ageing Westmead Hospital into an innovative, contemporary, and integrated centre that will continue to deliver high quality healthcare and expand the education, health, and research capability of the area.
Westmead Hospital is a leading centre of research, training and specialisation in all fields of Medicine and Dentistry, providing services in Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Kidney and Pancreas transplantation, Cancer Care, Obstetrics and Gynaecology including Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Neonatal Intensive Care, Trauma, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Critical Care, Aged Care and Rehabilitation, Adult Acute Psychiatry (networked with the co-located Cumberland Hospital) as well as other specialised medical and surgical services.
Westmead Hospital is also the principal referral centre for other metropolitan hospitals within the district including Auburn Hospital, Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital.
**What you'll be doing**
- Attending ward rounds and making daily entries in the electronic medical notes in the Neonatal Intensive Care or Special Care Unit.
- Working on a day and night shift roster providing clinical care to newborns managed at Westmead Hospital, ranging from well newborns on Maternity Ward to critically ill newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, including admission, physical examination, clinical procedures, formulation of investigation and management plan, review of progress, and completion of discharge summaries.
- Performing clinical procedures including basic and advanced neonatal resuscitation, intravenous cannulation, insertion of peripheral arterial catheters, lumbar puncture, suprapubic aspiration of urine, endotracheal intubation, and insertion of chest drains.
- Developing competency in exchange transfusion, insertion of umbilical vessel catheters, and peripherally inserted central catheters.
- Attending high risk deliveries in the Birth Unit and Operating Theatres.
- Performing routine newborn physical examinations, communicating with families, and providing initial consultation for neonatal problems in the Maternity Wards.
- Participating in the department's education and teaching program
**Employee Benefits**:
- Fitness Passport, Salary Packaging
**For Further Information**:
- WSLHD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal People and people from racial, ethnic or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability.
**The Training Program**:
This is an unaccredited training position.
**The Training Network**:
This position is not within a Training Network.
**Training Opportunities**:
Applicants for this position are usually seeking experience in a very busy tertiary perinatal unit, with a view to a future career in neonatology or enhancement of their clinical skills as a general paediatrician. Applicants have the opportunity to develop clinical skills in bedside neonatal ultrasound.
Supervision Arrangements
- The department has 7.5 FTE Staff Specialists and 5 FTE Clinical Fellows/Senior Registrars with at least two senior colleagues available all times for immediate case discussion and management.
- Every Neonatal Trainee is also allocated two senior medical staff members who act as a supervisor and mentor to the Trainee for the duration of their meployment.
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia.
- Must have a minimum 12 months neonatal experience within the last 18 months including at least 6 months in a tertiary Neonatal Intensive Care Unit setting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in neonatal procedures including the ability to intubate, insert intra-arterial catheters, umbilical catheters and intravenous cannulae in neonatal patients.
- Demonstrated commitment to further education and professional development.
- Demonstrated ability working within a multidisciplinary team in a critical care environment
- Demonstrated ability to recognise a deteriorating patient after hours, p