Staff Specialist - Intensive Care Unit

NSW Health; Council of the City of Sydney; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A health organization in New South Wales is seeking a Staff Specialist for the Intensive Care Unit. This full-time, temporary role involves providing critical care to patients, leading emergency medical teams, and supervising safe patient handovers. Ideal candidates will have specialist registration with AHPRA, significant experience in intensive care, and strong leadership skills. The organization promotes a diverse workforce and provides numerous learning opportunities.

Benefits

Generous salary packaging

Career development opportunities

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Specialist registration with AHPRA required.
• High standards of clinical practice commensurate to experience.
• Significant experience in management of critically ill patients.

Responsibilities

• Provide care for ICU patients and lead the Medical Emergency Team.
• Ensure safe handover of patients between shifts.
• Participate in weekend and on-call rosters.

Skills

Clinical practice in Intensive Care Medicine

Cannulation

Leadership in a medical emergency team

Multidisciplinary education

Compassionate patient care

Education

Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM)

Job description

Position Title: Staff Specialist - Intensive Care Unit

Employment Type: Temporary (12 months) - Full time

Hours per week: 1.0 FTE

Position Grade: Staff Specialist

Salary: As per the award

Enterprise Agreement: The Named NSW (Non-Declared) Affiliated Health Organisations’ Staff Specialist Agreement 2021

Department Name: Intensive Care Medicine

About us

St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing health services to our community. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, integrity and justice, we promote a culture of diversity and inclusion and empower our people to learn, grow and innovate.

Benefits of working at St Vincent’s include

• Generous salary packaging and Fitness Passport for eligible staff
• Opportunity to access a wide range of clinical and non-clinical education programs
• Supported postgraduate opportunities within applicable fields
• Career development opportunities across the St Vincent’s Health Australia Network
• Employee Assistance Program
• Work/Life balance

About the role

The Intensive Care Staff Specialist role primarily provides care for patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and ensures the safe delivery of interventions in an acute care environment. The role encompasses leadership as the Senior Medical Officer lead of the hospital-wide Medical Emergency Team (MET), including oversight of service delivery, clinical governance and quality measures. Encompassed in the role is input on step-down ICU patients on the wards, along with post‑deterioration patients. Furthermore, the role encompasses the oversight of the hospital-wide medical handover, ensuring the safe handover of these patients from shift changes. The role requires participation in weekend and after‑hours on‑call rosters, as rostered in the ICU department. Participation in ECMO retrievals roster is subject to St. Vincent’s accrediting the staff specialist.

Diversity and Inclusion at St Vincent's

St Vincent’s is committed to employing a workforce that reflects the community we care for. We strongly encourage applications from people that are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally diverse, sexuality or gender diverse and/or living with disability.

Employment with St Vincent's is subject to you having current immunity status that complies with the Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases – NSW Health Policy Directive (PD2023_022) or subsequent revisions in force. Appointment and ongoing employment will be subject to continued compliance with this policy directive.

Application Instructions

To have your application considered you are required to upload a current CV/Resume as well as a separate cover letter/document addressing the ‘Selection Criteria’ as below. Internal applicants i.e. current employees of St Vincent’s Hospital or an entity of SVHA are required to apply via their Workday account.

Selection Criteria

• Possess, or be eligible to possess, specialist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM) of Australia and New Zealand, or equivalent as provided for in the Staff Specialist’s State Award, and a Medicare provider number.
• Demonstrated knowledge, skills and high standards of clinical practice in Intensive Care Medicine commensurate to experience which is appropriate to the requirements of the position: possess experience at consultant level in the management of critically ill and post‑operative patients, including cardiopulmonary transplant, mechanical cardiac assist devices and extra‑corporeal life support.
• Significant experience in cannulation, initiation and longitudinal management of extra‑corporeal life support, including retrieval and inter‑hospital transfer.
• Experience in leading a medical emergency team including leading quality assurance to define and achieve key performance indicators for such service.
• Demonstrated commitment to multidisciplinary education, with experience and training in high‑fidelity simulation and its delivery in a critical care setting.
• Demonstrated leadership skills that support and foster innovation to create a learning culture, proven ability to improve the quality of services and patient care outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to provide high quality compassionate medical care as evidenced by recent practice experience in working congenially and collaboratively as both a leader and member of a multi‑disciplinary team, and as a provider of services that engender high levels of patient satisfaction and experience.
• Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries and St Vincent’s Health Australia

For more information, please contact Dr Hergen Buscher [e-mail]

For a copy of the position description, please email [e-mail]

The closing date for application is 05 December 2025.

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