Employment Type: Temporary Full Time
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM30289
Northern Beaches Hospital Emergency Department offers an ACEM-aligned Special Skills Placement in Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). The role provides advanced education, supervised clinical scanning, ultrasound governance experience, teaching opportunities, quality assurance participation and research exposure.
The Ultrasound Special Skills Trainee will develop expertise in the acquisition, interpretation, clinical integration, quality assurance and teaching of emergency ultrasound. The trainee will work closely with Emergency Physicians with expertise in POCUS and will contribute to ultrasound education, governance, credentialling, quality improvement and research activities within the department.
The position is a one year placement comprising 0.5 FTE Ultrasound SSP and 0.5 FTE clinical Emergency Department duties for 6 months, and 6 months as a pure clinical Emergency Medicine – Trainee Stage 2-4. The trainee is expected to maintain active clinical practice while developing advanced ultrasound skills consistent with ACEM SSP requirements.
The position is based at the Northern Beaches Hospital, Frenchs Forest
