Employment Type: Temporary Various - for Contract from 1st February 2027 to 6 February 2028
Remuneration: $117,745-$147,745
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM28754
An exciting opportunity exists to join the Paediatrics Department at Wollongong Hospital.
Come for the Lifestyle
Where you'll be working
Wollongong Hospital is the Illawarra and Shoalhaven’s major referral and teaching hospital and has a bed base of more than 500. The campus, which incorporates the Illawarra Regional Cancer Care Centre, provides a comprehensive range of inpatient, outpatient and community-based services.
Wollongong is located an hour’s drive south of Sydney on a narrow coastal strip bordered by the Royal National Park to the north, Lake Illawarra to the south, the Tasman Sea to the east and the Illawarra Escarpment to the west. Learn more about the lifestyle benefits of living and working in Wollongong.
What you'll be doing
The Provisional Paediatric Fellow provides high quality medical care with senior oversight and supervision to paediatric patients of Wollongong Hospital and within the Illawarra area. The Wollongong Paediatric Service is the higher-level referral centre for paediatric care in ISLHD and includes a Paediatric Ward (20 beds), Neonatal Unit (12 beds) accepting deliveries of babies 32 weeks and over, the Paediatric Assessment Unit and Neonatal Hospital in the Home service.
Wollongong Paediatrics has a 24 hour junior medical officer workforce. The Fellow will lead and supervise a team of junior doctors including seven paediatric Trainees and six residents (SRMOs and PGY2 RMOs). The Fellow will be involved in acute and outpatient paediatric care including daily acute review clinics, general paediatric hospital outpatient clinics and private paediatric consulting rooms. The Fellow will have the opportunity to gain on call experience by electing to participate as the first on call in the consultant roster.
The Provisional Paediatric Fellow position is accredited by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) General Paediatric Specialist Advisory Committee and supports development of skills required for specialist paediatric training. The University of Wollongong Graduate School of Medicine offers research and teaching opportunities, and conjoint honorary lecturer appointments are available to interested Fellows.
