The primary purpose of a Career Medical Officer (CMO) in Anaesthesia at Blacktown-Mt Druitt Hospitals is to provide anaesthesia and perioperative medicine services, under appropriate supervision. Anaesthetic Career Medical Officers will be expected to:
- Utilise clinical knowledge and skills to manage patients intra-operatively and peri-operatively. This includes the management of low to high complexity anaesthetic / surgical / patient factors with appropriately graded supervision depending on the situation.
- Deliver anaesthesia, peri-operative care and pain management services inside and outside the operating rooms at Blacktown and Mount-Druitt Hospitals.
- Participate as a multidisciplinary team member across key areas of anaesthesia, including:
o General Anaesthesia and Sedation
o Regional Anaesthesia
o Airway Management
o Pain Medicine
o Obstetric Anaesthesia
o Peri-operative Medicine
o Resuscitation
o Trauma and Crisis Management
- The CMO is expected to provide high quality care to patients. Individual practitioners’ scope of practice may be expanded over time following recredentialing based on a demonstrated commitment to ongoing personal and professional development
