Employment Type: Temporary Various
Remuneration: -
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM*****
Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital is seeking a passionate Unaccredited Trainee to join our Palliative Care Department in ****!
With a population of 60,000, you will be living a rural lifestyle in a very livable inland city halfway between Sydney and Brisbane.
Weekends at the coast are within easy reach.
Tamworth is a thriving regional city where you will experience the best of both worlds with daily return flights to the closest major capital cities, affording you the ideal circumstances to live and raise your family in big, wide‐open spaces, a welcoming community, affordable housing, great schools, and endless opportunities to pursue past‐time passions.
What You'll Be Doing
The primary purpose of the Unaccredited Trainee in Palliative Care is to provide effective medical services to patients under supervision, while developing expertise in medical practice in a complex clinical environment in inpatient and outpatient areas of the public health organisations within the Network.
Unaccredited Trainee in Palliative Care works under appropriate supervision by the consultant.
As a trainee you will gain increasing clinical autonomy and accountability as team leader throughout your training, building on your skills and attributes.




The Unaccredited Trainee will undertake the care of medical patients and should operate within their level of expertise within a cooperative clinical care model and seek consultation with the treating physician when appropriate.
The following activities are expected:
Clinically assess patients, incorporating history taking, examination, and formulation of a differential diagnosis and management plan
Discuss diagnoses and management plans with patients and their families or carers
Document the progress of patients in multiple settings
Prescribe medications tailored to patients' needs and conditions
Transfer care of patients
Choose, organise and interpret investigations
Assess and manage acutely unwell patients
Plan, prepare for, perform, and provide after‐care for procedures
Qualifications
Qualifications and experience as outlined in the essential requirements for the role.
At least three years' postgraduate experience in a public hospital service (or equivalent)
Demonstrated recent relevant experience in clinical medicine and ability to work independently in a complex clinical environment
Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills in dealings with patients, team members and supervisors
Demonstrated commitment to ongoing learning, teaching, research, quality improvement and clinical leadership in medicine
Demonstrated teamwork, time‐management and problem‐solving skills in a multidisciplinary clinical setting
Proven ability to apply clinical knowledge and concepts in practical situations, balancing multiple priorities
For role related queries or questions contact Nicole Lewis at
Applications Close: 04 August ****
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