Provisional Fellow

NSW Health; Sydney; On-site; AUD 118,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fitness Passport

Salary Packaging

Job summary

Westmead Hospital’s NICU offers a Provisional Fellow in Neonatology, working within a major NSW health precinct. The role includes supervision of trainees across NICU and Maternity wards, with diverse clinical duties and opportunities to contribute to teaching, research and quality improvement.

Requirements include MBBS and registration with the Medical Board of Australia, plus substantial NICU experience and leadership capabilities to educate junior staff and manage complex neonatal cases.

Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia.
• Minimum 12 months recent tertiary neonatal experience in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Australia or New Zealand or an equivalent overseas large well-equipped NICU.
• Minimum five years post graduate experience
• Demonstrated ability to supervise and educate junior medical staff and medical students in neonatal/ perinatal medicine.
• Demonstrated thorough knowledge of evidence based neonatal medicine and excellent clinical judgement concerning unwell neonatal patients.
• Demonstrated proficiency in all relevant neonatal procedures including the ability to intubate, insert IA lines and umbilical central lines and manage neonatal ventilation.
• Demonstrated ability to prevent and negotiate conflict in a critical care environment.
• Demonstrated excellent and thorough written and oral communication skills, including clinical handover, medical records and clinical database entry and ability to discuss serious newborn illness with families.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the supervision of Neonatal Trainees as they provide all aspects of care for infants within the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Special Care Nursery and Maternity Ward under the supervision of the Staff Specialists.
• Undertake clinical responsibilities on a rotational basis across NICU, SCN, Growth and Development Clinic and other outpatient clinics such as short term follow-up of recently discharged patients and antenatal consultations for women with expected high risk delivery.
• Attend ward rounds ensuring at least daily entries in the electronic medical notes are completed. In the NICU, a Staff Specialist and Fellow will usually undertake twice daily ward rounds with medical and nursing staff and a once daily round in the SCN.
• Provide and supervise clinical care including admission, physical examination, performance of clinical procedures, formulation of investigation and management plan, review of progress, and completion and checking of discharge summaries.
• Perform technical procedures including basic and advanced neonatal resuscitation, intravenous cannulation, insertion of peripheral arterial lines, lumbar puncture, suprapubic aspiration of urine, endotracheal intubation, and insertion of chest drains.
• Develop competency in exchange transfusion, insertion of umbilical lines, and insertion of peripherally inserted central catheters.
• Participate in the first on call roster. A Provisional Fellow or Senior Registrar is usually first on call for clinical advice and emergency call back, with a Staff Specialist second on call and available. Rostered shifts are required when first on call for weekends, and rostered evening shifts may be required to meet service needs.
• Attend outpatient consultations in department clinics and complete follow-up report writing under the supervision of a Staff Specialist.
• Participate in the implementation of new practices aimed at improving the quality of care provided within the department, including the development of new guidelines according to best evidence.
• Participate actively in quality improvement, morbidity and mortality review, and peer review activities within the hospital.
• Participate actively in clinical or laboratory research relevant to the department and neonatal medicine.
• Participate and assist in the planning and delivery of appropriate education and training in neonatal medicine, including information sessions for parents.

Job description

Employment Type:TemporaryVarious Remuneration: 117,745.00 - 147,664.00 Hours Per Week:38 Requisition ID:CAM30999

Contract: 01 February 2027 to 06 February 2028

WSLHD - Provisional Fellow - Neonatology

Where you'll be working

Westmead Hospital is a key facility of one of Australia’s largest major health and medical research precincts and is the principal referral hospital for Western Sydney Local Health District providing district level health services to Parramatta, Holroyd and The Hills Shire LGAs including tertiary and quaternary services to greater Western Sydney, greater metropolitan Sydney, rural NSW and other states. The Westmead Health Precinct currently under development is envisaged to be the largest hospital building project undertaken in Western Sydney and will transform the iconic but ageing Westmead Hospital into an innovative, contemporary, and integrated centre that will continue to deliver high quality healthcare and expand the education, health, and research capability of the area.

Westmead Hospital is a leading centre of research, training and specialisation in all fields of Medicine and Dentistry, providing services in Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Kidney and Pancreas transplantation, Cancer Care, Obstetrics and Gynaecology including Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Neonatal Intensive Care, Trauma, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Critical Care, Aged Care and Rehabilitation, Adult Acute Psychiatry (networked with the co-located Cumberland Hospital) as well as other specialised medical and surgical services.

Westmead Hospital is also the principal referral centre for other metropolitan hospitals within the district including Auburn Hospital, Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital.

The Westmead Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is the largest in NSW with 24 intensive care beds and 20 special care beds. The department admits over 1,500 newborns per year of which approximately 450 require airway support and 150 are born at less than 32 weeks gestation. The NICU has a strong relationship with the Maternal-Fetal Medicine team and the University of Sydney. Westmead Hospital delivers newborns who have complex surgical and cardiac conditions who are transferred to the co-located Children’s Hospital at Westmead for subspecialist treatment after initial stabilisation. Westmead Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit also receives ex-utero neonatal transfers from across NSW and within the district. The department is very active in teaching, clinical practice improvement and research. Westmead NICU offers comprehensive supervised training in clinician performed neonatal ultrasound to interested candidates. The department provides training in neurodevelopmental follow-up to high risk NICU graduates in a multidisciplinary clinic, up to the age of 5 years.

What you'll be doing

• Participate in the supervision of Neonatal Trainees as they provide all aspects of care for infants within the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Special Care Nursery and Maternity Ward under the supervision of the Staff Specialists.
• Undertake clinical responsibilities on a rotational basis across NICU, SCN, Growth and Development Clinic and other outpatient clinics such as short term follow-up of recently discharged patients and antenatal consultations for women with expected high risk delivery.
• Attend ward rounds ensuring at least daily entries in the electronic medical notes are completed. In the NICU, a Staff Specialist and Fellow will usually undertake twice daily ward rounds with medical and nursing staff and a once daily round in the SCN.
• Provide and supervise clinical care including admission, physical examination, performance of clinical procedures, formulation of investigation and management plan, review of progress, and completion and checking of discharge summaries.
• Perform technical procedures including basic and advanced neonatal resuscitation, intravenous cannulation, insertion of peripheral arterial lines, lumbar puncture, suprapubic aspiration of urine, endotracheal intubation, and insertion of chest drains.
• Develop competency in exchange transfusion, insertion of umbilical lines, and insertion of peripherally inserted central catheters.
• Participate in the first on call roster. A Provisional Fellow or Senior Registrar is usually first on call for clinical advice and emergency call back, with a Staff Specialist second on call and available. Rostered shifts are required when first on call for weekends, and rostered evening shifts may be required to meet service needs.
• Attend outpatient consultations in department clinics and complete follow-up report writing under the supervision of a Staff Specialist.
• Participate in the implementation of new practices aimed at improving the quality of care provided within the department, including the development of new guidelines according to best evidence.
• Participate actively in quality improvement, morbidity and mortality review, and peer review activities within the hospital.
• Participate actively in clinical or laboratory research relevant to the department and neonatal medicine.
• Participate and assist in the planning and delivery of appropriate education and training in neonatal medicine, including information sessions for parents.

Employee Benefits

• Fitness Passport, Salary Packaging

WSLHD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal People and people from racial, ethnic or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability.

For more information about working for WSLHD, please visit: https://www.wslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/Working-With-Us

The Training Program

The position is accredited for Royal Australasian College of Physicians advanced training in Neonatal Perinatal Medicine.

The Training Network

This position is not within a Training Network.

Training Opportunities

Applicants for this position are usually seeking experience in a very busy tertiary perinatal unit, with a view to a future career in neonatology. Applicants have the opportunity to develop clinical skills in bedside neonatal ultrasound. Provisional fellows will also gain valuable experience in developmental assessment and follow-up of high risk graduates from the NICU. Research opportunities will be offered to successful applicants.

• MBBS or equivalent, currently registered or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia.
• Minimum 12 months recent tertiary neonatal experience in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Australia or New Zealand or an equivalent overseas large well-equipped NICU.
• Minimum five years post graduate experience
• Demonstrated ability to supervise and educate junior medical staff and medical students in neonatal/ perinatal medicine.
• Demonstrated thorough knowledge of evidence based neonatal medicine and excellent clinical judgement concerning unwell neonatal patients.
• Demonstrated proficiency in all relevant neonatal procedures including the ability to intubate, insert IA lines and umbilical central lines and manage neonatal ventilation.
• Demonstrated ability to prevent and negotiate conflict in a critical care environment.
• Demonstrated excellent and thorough written and oral communication skills, including clinical handover, medical records and clinical database entry and ability to discuss serious newborn illness with families.

Applications Close: 25, October 2026

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