Senior Resident Medical Officer - Acute & Critical Care

About the role

Hunter New England Local Health District (Belmont Hospital) is recruiting a Senior Resident Medical Officer (SRMO) for its unaccredited Acute & Critical Care program. The position is temporary full time, up to 2 years, 38 hours per week, with a base salary of $94,521-$127,827 plus superannuation and other penalties. It gives hands-on experience in Emergency Medicine, Anaesthetics, ICU, Acute/General Medicine and CCU-COU, with rotations tailored to career goals.

Key responsibilities

• Provide medical services and gain supervised experience caring for acutely ill patients in urban non-tertiary settings.
• Work in one or more acute areas: CCU-COU (8-bed unit with telemetry, non-invasive ventilation and short-term vasopressor capability), the Emergency Department (~30,000 presentations per year), the Anaesthetics Department (4 theatres) and the General Medicine Department (four acute teams).
• Optionally rotate to an off-site ICU at a partner hospital in the network, exposed to critically ill patients including mechanical ventilation, vasopressors/inotropes and continuous renal replacement therapy.
• Work under direct or indirect supervision, with specialist consultants available on-site or on call 24/7, and choose rotations according to career aspirations (Acute Care, Critical Care or Mixed streams).

Required profile

• MBBS or equivalent, with current general registration with the Medical Board of Australia.
• Completed at least 2-3 years of full-time clinical work after graduation.
• Recent critical care terms and relevant courses or workshops.
• Recent experience in critical care settings (ICU, ED or Anaesthetics terms) and good communication with patients, families and colleagues.
• Competency in, or planned enrolment in, the ALS-2 course and other critical care courses (ICU BASIC, EMST, ATLS, APLS, etc.) is favoured.

What we offer

• Exposure to emergency, anaesthesia, acute/general medicine and ICU, with opportunities to tailor rotations to career goals.
• Support from Clinical Leads, Heads of Departments, Consultants and Advanced Trainees, plus teaching programs and regional lifestyle benefits.
• Positioning for future specialty training in Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine or Intensive Care.