Employment Type : Temporary Various
Remuneration : -
Hours Per Week : 38
Requisition ID : CAM27608
Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital is seeking a passionate Unaccredited Trainee to join our Palliative Care Department in 2026!
You will be working with 1FTE Palliative Care Consultant, 0.2FTE Intern
Where you'll be working
With a population of 60,000, you will be living a rural lifestyle, in a very liveable inland city halfway between Sydney and Brisbane, and weekends at the coast are within easy reach. Tamworth is a thriving regional city where you will experience the best of both worlds with 6 daily return flights to the closest major capital cities with the knowledge you are living and raising your family under the most ideal circumstances; big wide-open spaces, a welcoming and friendly community, affordable housing, great schools and endless opportunities for you and your family to pursue past-time passions.
What you'll be doing
The primary purpose of the Unaccredited Trainee in Palliative Care is to provide effective medical services to patients under supervision, while developing expertise in medical practice in a complex clinical environment in inpatient and outpatient areas in the public health organisations within the Network.
Unaccredited Trainees will gain increasing clinical autonomy and accountability as team leaders throughout the course of their training, building on their skills and attributes.
Unaccredited Trainees undertaking the care of medical patients should ensure that they operate within their own level of expertise within a collaborative clinical care model and to seek consultation with the treating physician when appropriate, in the following activities:
1. Clinically assess patients, incorporating consultation/history taking, examination, and formulation of a differential diagnosis and management plan
2. Discuss diagnoses and management plans with patients and their families or carers
3. Document the progress of patients in multiple settings
4. Prescribe medications tailored to patients? needs and conditions
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