Canterbury DHB BUILD YOUR CAREER WITH US! How supported will I be working as a Thinking what you might do down House Officer for the Canterbury DHB? the track? Clinical Work • Craft your own professional development pathway. • Annual vocational pathways event and opportunities to • You will be working at the South Island’s largest hospital observe in services. and, as a House Officer, you will be supported by Registrars and Consultants in your team. • Training is available in all specialties in Christchurch. We are particularly well known for our training schemes in • As a part of your pre-registration programme, you will be Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Radiology and Anaesthesia. under close supervision from your consultants and will receive feedback on your progress during your run. • METU and the Resident Doctors’ Support Team always have their doors open! • If you are doing one of the after-hours duty jobs there are always Registrars available, either on site or on-call, whom you can ring for help. Where can I work and what runs can I do • The Clinical Team Coordinator is a senior nurse, usually as a House Officer? ICU or ED trained, who works on the after-hours shifts helping the duty RMOs. They are superstars who help Most of the runs you will work in during your first year are triage calls and lend a hand where needed. The CTCs are based at the main Christchurch Hospital. unique to the Canterbury DHB. Mental Health is based at Hillmorton Hospital and Older Person’s Health is based at Burwood Hospital. Medical Education and Training Unit (METU) Construction is nearing completion on the largest and most • Make the most of a dedicated RMO education team complex health care facility redevelopment in the history of offering protected teaching sessions, multilevel support the New Zealand Public Health Service and it is right here in and a progressive learning environment. Christchurch! You could be part of our team of professionals • Our METU team are responsible for the overall providing world class health care right here. prevocational education and clinical training environment Burwood Hospital’s new facilities and the brand new for junior medical staff, and ensure you receive the training Outpatients building on the Christchurch Hospital campus and supervision you need to meet the requirements of the are already open. Christchurch Hospital’s Acute Services Medical Council of New Zealand. facility is due to open in 2020. All have been designed to • Manawa, which is a joint venture between the University of provide spacious, modern and purpose-built facilities for Canterbury, ARA Institute and the Canterbury DHB, is our patients, visitors and staff. multi-storey, state of the art, education and training facility also on the Christchurch Hospital Campus. • Non-clinical supports include your Educational Supervisor, with whom you meet at the end of each run to discuss your progress. They are always very friendly and approachable. • You will be provided with a comprehensive 4-day orientation, including one full day in your first service. • Canterbury DHB offers an innovative and progressive learning environment. • CheckMate scheme provides peer mentoring across the campus. • You will be provided with multiple opportunities to feedback to services. What is different about working for Canterbury DHB compared with other DHBs? • The CTCs!!! • Thrive in the South Island’s largest tertiary, teaching and research hospital . • Be part of the exciting hospital rebuild – the largest hospital redevelopment New Zealand has ever seen! Our Acute services building is due to open later in Runs 2020 and will house ED, ICU, Radiology and ward facilities. In your first year, you will do a selection of the following • Experience great support and a real focus on runs: General Medicine, Cardiology, General Surgery, wellbeing with a close connection between RMOs, Otolaryngology, Oncology, Gastroenterology, Orthopaedic Resident Doctors’ Support Team (RDST) and Medical Surgery, Acute Psychiatry, Respiratory, Older Persons Health, Education and Training Unit (METU). Neurology, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery • You’ll be working in a tertiary level centre which After your first year, delve in to additional runs such as covers a huge area (over half of the South Island), Community Based, General Practice, Psychiatry Specialty and have much more opportunity to experience the Services, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neurosurgery, subspecialties. Ophthalmology, Haematology, Orthopedic outpatients, Rural • Experience the benefits of Canterbury DHB’s great Hospital (Ashburton and West Coast), Rehabilitative Medicine, reputation for both prevocational and vocational Nephrology, Perioperative Medicine, Relief positions based in training. medical or surgical services, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Urology In addition to the above positions there are also some 6 month positions in Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Emergency Medicine, Anaesthesia. Left, above: Artists’ impression of Christchurch Hospital Hagley (acute services building), due to open in 2020. But won’t you just take Below: Theatre Simulation, Manawa building. Christchurch students? Appointments to positions are made based on your own merits. Applicants from the Christchurch Clinical School are not guaranteed a position at Canterbury DHB just because they trained here. What will my rosters look like? The frequency of long days is different on different runs, but is generally between 1:6 and 1:9. As a first year House Officer, you will not be allocated to night duty until you have at least three months of job experience under your belt. If your first run is a General Medicine run, you can begin doing nights in your second run. However, if your first run is not General Medicine, you cannot do nights until you have worked for 6 months. To find out more, please visit www.cdhbcareers.co.nz/Resident-Doctors/PGY1s/.