Staff Specialist (Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Metro South Health; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane is seeking an experienced clinician to assist the Director of Intensive Care in delivering specialist care to patients with critical illness. You will share responsibility for patient care within the intensive care setting, working closely with the multidisciplinary team.

You will undertake ward rounds, on-call duties and engage in teaching and collaboration with registrars, junior doctors and students, contributing to research and quality improvement

Job description

Join Our Collaborative And Experienced Heath Care Team.

Become a valued member of a professional and collegial team, with access to flexible work arrangements and pathways for career development

Your New Role

This role assists the Director of Intensive Care to provide specialist clinical care to patients with critical illness and assume overall responsibility for patient care.

Services Provided Include

• Specialist Intensive Care services at Metro South Hospital and Health Service,
• Inpatient care, including participating in the on-call roster
• Inpatient consultations as requested
• Contribute to the multidisciplinary patient care team including active participation in multi-disciplinary meetings
• Supervision and teaching of registrars, junior doctors and medical students, and teaching for other members of the multidisciplinary team Participation and/or leadership of research and quality improvement activities

About you:

• Undertake ward rounds, outpatient services (including Telehealth), procedures, and multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Provide patient care consistent with professional standards, ethics, and facility capability frameworks.
• Ensure timely, accurate documentation and effective clinical handover.
• Liaise and collaborate with other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure effective team functioning, positive patient outcomes and the achievement of departmental objectives.
• Participate in the unit's on-call roster as rostered, ensuring timely and appropriate clinical coverage.
• Model professionalism, ethical practice, and respect within the team.
• Promote consumer engagement in treatment and care.

What We Can Offer You

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Princess Alexandra Hospital

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together .

Occupational group Health - Medical