**Description**
**‘Creating exceptional health care together.’**
- POSITION DESCRIPTION
**Position Title**:Paediatric Medicine Basic Trainee**
**Employment Type**:Full Time
**Classification**: Registrar 1 - 4
**Salary**: $112,917 - $141,084 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:The Canberra Hospital, Garran ACT
**Section**: Women, Youth & Children
**Closing Date**:21 April 2025
**What can we offer you**:
- City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra
- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe advantages tax concessions.
- Flexible working conditions
- 11.5% Superannuation
- To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services (act.gov.au
**About the role**
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person-centred care.
It provides acute, sub-acute, primary, and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding regions.
More information can be found on the CHS website.
**This position is being advertised for an August 2025 commencement for a period of 12 months with position extension.
To be eligible for this position you must be PGY 4 + by August 2025.**
- Applications are sought for Basic Trainee Registrar positions in Paediatrics and Child Health at the Canberra Hospital.
- The Department of Paediatrics and Child Health is the principal centre for children’s medical and surgical services in the ACT.
There is a large and energetic inpatient department for Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine and Surgery, with 48 beds.
The outpatient department has been developed to reflect current out-patient models of care and gives trainees broad exposure to a range of general and subspecialty paediatrics, including paediatric endocrinology and respiratory and sleep medicine.
Visiting subspecialists conduct clinics allowing for exposure to a broad range of other paediatric subspecialties including oncology/haematology, neurology, and cardiology.
The department also provides an innovative teaching program for students from the Australian National University Medical School.
- The Department of Paediatrics provides general paediatric services to approximately 450 in-patients and 1000 out-patients each month.
The Department is staffed by 18 Staff Specialists (10 FTE General Paediatrics, three Endocrinology, one Gastroenterology and General Paediatrics, 0.5 Paediatric respiratory and general paediatrics), a general paediatric Senior Registrar, 10 Registrars and 11 Residents.
The Canberra Hospital has 48 in-patient paediatric beds (High Care, Medical, Adolescent and Surgical) and a busy 18 room outpatient department.
- The Department of Paediatrics is accredited by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and is a site for the RACP Fellowship clinical examinations.
- We are able to offer rural rotations to Goulburn (NSW) and Albury, six-month rotations to NICU, three-month rotations through Paediatric Emergency at Canberra Hospital and three-month rotations to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead to fulfil college requirements.
**Duties**:
- Under limited direction of the Clinical Director, you will:
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Provide competent and efficient clinical management of patients of the CHS under the supervision and direction of a Consultant Medical Practitioner(s).
The clinical management includes acute admissions, in-patient care, outpatient clinics, inter-disciplinary consults, and clinical handover.
- 2.
Participate in the supervision, training and professional development of junior medical staff and medical students.
- 3.
Demonstrate progress in training in the specialty including participation in relevant teaching programs and activities, timely completion of assessments and involvement in research.
- 4.
Participate in the after-hours roster.
- 5.
Contribute to clinical audit and participate in changes that improve quality and safety of patient care.
- 6.
Maintain adequate and legible medical record and ensure that the clinical team completes discharge summaries in a timely manner.
- 7.
Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.
**About you**:
**Behavi**oural Capabilities**
- 1.
Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to liaise effectively with other health professionals.
- 2.
Demonstrated enthusiasm for and abilities in teaching.
- 3.
Demonstrated commitment to further education and professional development.
- 4.
Basic computer skills.
**Position Requirements/Qualifications**:
- Be registered or be eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Advanced Paediatric Life Support or equivalent.
- To be eligible fo
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