Employment Type: Temporary Full Time
Remuneration: - $117,745 - $147,664 per annum
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM28785
Sydney Local Health District is seeking highly motivated Provisional Fellows to join the Anaesthetic Team at Concord Hospital
What you will be doing
This position is open to qualified candidates who have completed their basic and advanced training with the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA). This position is an ideal opportunity for senior trainees to transition into consultant practice. Special emphasis is placed on developing clinical autonomy, organisational skills, administrative and rostering requirements and supervision of junior trainees. The position also allows the opportunity to acquire subspecialist experience in a variety of areas as well as involvement in elective and emergency surgery. Non-clinical sessions comprise approximately 20% of the fellow’s time. During these sessions, fellows will facilitate and conduct simulation sessions, as well as contribute to exam focused teaching.
Provisional Fellows contribute to the overtime roster on weeknight evenings and weekend days. Provisional Fellows do not contribute to the overnight cover unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Concord offers subspecialty terms to its fellows. These terms can be the focus for 12 months or two terms can be chosen for 6 months each. All terms are conducted while also performing the other duties of a provisional fellow. The terms are as follows:
Airway Fellowship
2 days per week assigned to airway focused lists including head and neck surgery, laser airway cases, ENT, complex dental and burns. There is a focus on use of apnoeic oxygenation techniques, hyperangulated videolaryngoscopy, asleep and awake fibre-optic intubation.
Non-clinical time will involve being an instructor in:
- CICO workshops
- Awake fibreoptic topicalization workshops
- Tracheostomy emergency management workshops
- Interdepartmental simulation with ICU and Emergency
Regional Fellowship
2 days per week assigned to lists with a regional focus including orthopaedic, vascular, ophthalmology and burns. These lists are performed by anaesthetists with a special interest in regional anaesthesia and an enthusiasm for teaching. There is scope for these lists to be run by the fellow when appropriate. The fellow is involved in ward-based regional analgesia eg. hip and chest trauma, in conjunction with the Acute Pain Service.
Non-clinical time will involve
- Facilitating or teaching regional anaesthesia
- Co-ordination of JMO audit projects
General Fellowship
The caseload seen at Concord allows for an excellent general fellowship experience with a high degree of autonomy within a very supportive framework. Elements of both the Airway and Regional Fellowship will also be available to General Fellows. Applicants can negotiate a fellowship with various clinical foci such as simulation, allergy testing, abdominal surgery or peri-operative medicine.
The Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management
The Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management provides anaesthesia services to an 11 theatre operating suite, with approximately 11,000 cases per year, and provides sedation and anaesthetic support for cardiology, radiology and endoscopy procedures outside the operating theatres. The department is also involved in provision of central line services and participation in MET calls in the general wards.
Over 80% of our elective surgical caseload is assessed and prepared in a dedicated pre-assessment clinic, and over 90% of patients are admitted on the day of surgery via the peri-operative unit - either as day of surgical admissions or as day stay patients. The department runs a pain service which makes over 7000 peri-operative acute pain visits per year as well as a multidisciplinary chronic pain clinic.
Where you will be working
Concord Repatriation General Hospital is a principal referral facility and a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. We offer a comprehensive range of specialty and sub-specialty services, many recognised nationally and internationally as Centre’s of Excellence. Major services include colorectal and laparoscopic surgery, gastroenterology, geriatrics and rehabilitation medicine, bone and joint services, cancer services, haematology, respiratory medicine and sleep studies, molecular biology and genetics, and those provided through the internationally acknowledged Statewide Burns Service, in which Concord plays a major part.
What we can offer you:
• Supportive, collegiate and diverse work environment
• Ongoing professional development and career opportunities
• Salary packaging and fitness passport for eligible staff including 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.
- Qualifications and experience commensurate with the Essential Requirements for the role.
- Meeting the ANZCA criteria to fill a Provisional Fellow position or an advanced trainee who has successfully completed or is currently sitting the ANZCA final examination.
- Demonstrated advanced ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the planning, delivery and coordination of patient care.
- Demonstrated advanced communication skills, including the ability to convey, adapt verbal and written information to a clinical and non-clinical audience.
- Demonstrated advanced organisational and time management skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a complex environment.
- Demonstrated commitment to quality improvement, patient safety and risk management.
- Demonstrated advanced ability to remain calm and act constructively when faced with high pressure situations or unpredictable environments.
- Demonstrated previous experience in and willingness to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and training and commitment to the after-hours and on call roster.
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For role related queries or questions contact Rodney Martin on [email protected]
Applications Close: 06, July 2026
