Employment Type: Temporary Full Time (01-Feb-2027 to 06-Feb-2028)
Remuneration: $117,745 - $147,664
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM29072
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is an exceptional environment to advance your career while enhancing your skills and expertise. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we deliver a comprehensive range of public health services across the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Regions.
Nepean Hospital is the Level 6 maternity service for surrounding hospitals including Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains, Lithgow, Bathurst, Orange, and Dubbo Hospitals. The Maternal Fetal Medicine Service is dedicated to the management of complex pregnancies, offering detailed fetal imaging, advanced prenatal diagnostics, and evidence-based care for women and families facing high-risk conditions. The service works collaboratively with obstetricians, neonatologists, genetic counsellors, sonographers, midwives, and allied health professionals to deliver coordinated care.
The Maternal Fetal Medicine team are seeking a Provisional Fellow to join our team. The role provides an ideal training opportunity, with access to ultrasound training, fetal echocardiography, prenatal genetics, obstetric/fetal procedures, high risk antenatal care, obstetric medicine, and research opportunities. The position is ideal for someone training towards CMFM and/or DDU/ COGU qualifications but is also suitable for someone seeking to gain experience in Maternal Fetal Medicine or ultrasound.
- Ward rounds for Maternal Fetal Medicine patients.
- Build ultrasound scanning skills under the supervision of a specialist or sonographer, to the level of being about to assess fetal anatomy, growth and wellbeing. There is a fortnightly fetal echocardiography scanning list, with opportunities to attend.
- Counsel women and families about fetal anomalies, and build skills in fetal procedures under the supervision of a specialist.
- Manage patients in high-risk obstetric clinics, including the Twins clinic, MFM clinic, VIP (obstetric medicine), and Perinatal Loss clinic.
- Coordinate care for women and families requiring complex multidisciplinary care or travelling from other districts within our tiered perinatal network. There is a monthly MFM Outreach ultrasound/counselling clinic at Orange Base Hospital, with opportunities to attend. There is an opportunity to participate in prenatal genetic counselling under the supervision of a geneticist and/or genetic counsellor. There is an opportunity to join the neonatal ICU ward round and teaching activities.
- Participating in a 24/7 roster and may be rostered to day, evening or night shifts across a seven day roster.
Where you'll be working
- MFM Fellows will be mainly based on in the Maternal Fetal Medicine unit, based on Perinatal Ultrasound Department, Nepean Hospital.
- Occasionally, Fellows will be required to attend regional MFM clinic or Telehealth clinic.
- Trainees will be working in following area;
- Perinatal Ultrasound department
- Antenatal Clinic
- Birth Unit
- Antenatal and Postnatal Ward
- Regional MFM clinic. Obstetric experience is predominantly at Nepean Hospital with Gynaecological Surgery offered at all sites.
