Staff Specialist - Anaesthesia - Princess Alexandra Hospital

Your new role:

This role provides specialist Anaesthesia clinical care to patients and assumes overall responsibility for patient care, including inpatient and outpatient consultation, participation in the on-call roster, elective and or emergency procedures and participation in multidisciplinary clinics and meetings.

Key functions include:

• Providing specialist clinical services and professional leadership within Anaesthetics and the Perioperative area across Metro South Health facilities
• Delivering high quality inpatient and outpatient care, including on-call participation
• Performing elective and/or emergency procedures
• Supervising and teaching junior medical staff and students and other health care team members
• Participating in multidisciplinary meetings, research, and quality improvement

About you:

• This role will involve the provision of anaesthesia related services as determined by the needs of Princess Alexandra Hospital. This may involve services in, but is not limited to:
  • Main Operating theatres including Cardiac theatres
  • Pre-Admission Clinic
  • Acute Pain Service
  • Endoscopy suite
  • Cardiac Catheter laboratories
  • Radiology Department
  • Day Surgery Procedure Unit
• Promote interprofessional collaboration and leadership to support patient safety, patient-centred care, and service improvement.
• The role may involve working shifts within an extended span of ordinary hours to meet clinical service needs.

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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.