Position Title: Post Graduate Fellow - Intensive Care Medicine
Employment Type: Temporary - 12 months with an option to extend
Hours per week: 1.0 FTE (40 hours/week)
Position Grade: Post Graduate Fellow
Salary: As per the award
Enterprise Agreement: The Named NSW (Non-Declared) Affiliated Health Organisations’ Staff Specialist Agreement 2021
Department Name: Intensive Care Medicine
About us:
St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing health services to our community. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, integrity and justice, we promote a culture of diversity and inclusion and empower our people to learn, grow and innovate.
Benefits of working at St Vincent’s include:
Generous salary packaging and Fitness Passport for eligible staff
Opportunity to access a wide of range of clinical and non-clinical education programs
Supported post graduate opportunities within applicable fields
Career development opportunities across the St Vincent’s Health Australia Network
Employee Assistance Program
Work/Life balance
About the role:
The Department of Intensive Care is seeking a Post Graduate Fellow to join our dynamic and highly motivated team, dedicated to providing state-of-the-art care to both the local community and patients referred from across New South Wales and beyond.
At St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, we strive to become the leading specialist intensive care unit in Australia for heart and lung disease, with a focus on cardio-pulmonary transplantation, mechanical cardiac support and extra-corporeal life support. We are constantly at the cutting edge of intensive care, through research, innovation, and collaboration. We endeavour to recruit and retain the highest quality staff, because it is through their skill and dedication that we as a department can continue to grow and develop.
As well as slotting seamlessly into the complex clinical duties of the role and actively engaging in governance, education and research, the successful candidate will be required to participate in the intensive care specialist on-call rotas, including critical care outreach and extra-corporeal support (eg. ECMO) retrieval.
Diversity and Inclusion at St Vincent's:
St Vincent's is committed to employing a workforce that reflects the community we care for. We strongly encourage applications from people that are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally diverse, sexuality or gender diverse and/or living with disability.
Employment with St Vincent's is subject to you having current immunity status that complies with the Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases - NSW Health Policy Directive (PD2023_022) or subsequent revisions in force. Appointment and ongoing employment will be subject to continued compliance with this policy directive.
Application Instructions:
To have your application considered you are required to upload a current CV/Resume as well as a separate cover letter/document addressing the ‘Selection Criteria’ as below. Internal applicants i.e. current employees of St Vincent’s Hospital or an entity of SVHA are required to apply via their Workday account.
Selection Criteria:
Possess, or be eligible to possess, specialist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM) of Australia and New Zealand, or equivalent.
Demonstrated knowledge, skills and high standards of clinical practice in Intensive Care Medicine commensurate to experience which is appropriate to the requirements of the position: possess experience in the management of critically ill and post-operative patients, including cardiopulmonary transplant, mechanical cardiac assist devices and extra-corporeal life support.
Significant experience in initiation and longitudinal management of extra-corporeal life support.
Experience and willingness to engage in the bedside application of echocardiography.
Demonstrated commitment to multidisciplinary education, with experience and training in high-fidelity simulation and its delivery in a critical care setting.
Ability to participate and lead clinical research projects.
Demonstrated leadership skills that support and foster innovation to create a learning culture, proven ability to improve the quality of services and patient care outcomes.
Demonstrated ability to provide high quality compassionate medical care as evidenced by recent practice experience in working congenially and collaboratively as both a leader and member of a multi-disciplinary team, and as a provider of services that engender high levels of patient satisfaction and experience.
Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries and St Vincent’s Health Australia
For more information, please contact Dr Hergen Buscher [email protected]
For a copy of the position description, please email [email protected]
The closing date for application is 28 July 2026
At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at [email protected]
