Employment Type: Temporary Full Time
Remuneration: $94,521 - $127,827 per annum
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM28982
Concord Emergency Department is seeking highly motivated Senior Resident Medical Officers to join our team to launch a career in Emergency Medicine or Critical Care
The Hospital
Concord Repatriation General Hospital is proud of its healthcare service excellence and leadership in clinical care. Concord is part of a network of hospitals and healthcare services within Sydney Local Health District and offers a comprehensive range of specialty and sub-specialty services in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney.
Concord Hospital is committed to ensuring the community has equitable access to high quality patient-centred care that is timely, evidence-based, culturally appropriate and efficient. The hospital provides this care in partnership with highly skilled and committed staff.
The Department of Emergency Medicine
The Emergency department has 2 resus bays, 16 acute beds, a rapid access and fast track area and a new 5-bed ED short stay unit due for completion in late 2025. A high-end CT scanner has been installed adjacent to the resuscitation bays with a co-located radiology department.
Our department is a receiving centre for major burns, a primary PTCA centre for STEMI and is an acute stroke service referral centre. Our patient population is a cohort with complex medical conditions and high acuity presentations and a small proportion of paediatric attendances.
Concord ED is a major referral site and is accredited for 24 months of advanced ED training with Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM). We provide opportunities to get involved in research and quality assurance activities and encourage consolidating the practice of evidence-based medicine.
The role
As an ED SRMO you will be part of the dynamic team providing emergency care under the guidance of Emergency Consultants. We will provide you with the opportunity to develop a broad range of clinical skills in a well-supported environment to progress in your career in emergency medicine focused on medical complexity and high acuity presentations.
Concord ED has an established program for professional development and structured education. We pride ourselves on providing you with a supportive educational environment and flexibility to meet your professional development needs and training goals. This includes:
- Join weekly ED registrar teaching (2.5 hours paid protected time) and/or ED JMO teaching (1 hour paid protected time)
- Opportunity to attend up to five ED SRMO procedural skills training days
- Rotations to develop specialised skills in anaesthetics, intensive care or Canterbury Hospital ED with paediatrics ED exposure.
- Point of Care Ultrasound education
- Clinical audit opportunities to develop a non-clinical portfolio
- Mentorship and career development support to join ACEM or other college specialty training programs
- Bedside teaching program including procedural skills accreditation for sedation and ultrasound guided peripheral access
- In-situ inter-professional simulation program participation
- ACEM Associateship training program in Emergency Medicine as an alternative to ACEM training.
- A supportive, collegiate, and diverse work environment
- Convenient location near transport facilities with onsite parking available.
- Salary packaging and fitness passport for eligible staff including utilising SLHD gym facilities
- Wellbeing, advocacy, mentorship, and support opportunities exclusively for medical staff through SLHDs multifaceted workplace program MDOK
SLHD is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people with disability are encouraged to apply for all internal and externally advertised positions. If you require assistance, please advise the contact person at the time of your application.
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Sydney Local Health District’s vision incorporates NSW Health Core Values and a commitment to equity, health improvement, timeliness and efficiency, recognising that evidence-based service delivery requires highly skilled and valued staff supported by research, education and state-of-the-art technologies.
Our strategic priority under this vision is our commitment to excellence in Patient and Family Centre Care. Staff are supported to ensure patients; their families and carers are considered as partners in care to achieve optimal patient outcomes and best possible healthcare experience.
