Role Description APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTECD BY A THIRD PARTY Job ad reference: Closing Date: Role title: Senior Registrars or Registrars – Classification: L10 – L13 or Advanced Trainee (Second and L4 – L9 Subsequent Years) Status: Multiple Temporary Full Time Salary Range: positions for 12 months Unit/Department: Cardiology Program The Prince Charles Hospital Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Princess Alexandra Hospital Gold Coast Hospital Townsville Hospital Nambour General Hospital Mackay Base Hospital Hospital and Health Metro North Hospital and Health Contact name: Dr Darren Walters Service: Service (07) 3139 4710 (TPCH) Metro South Health Service Dr John Atherton Gold Coast Health Service (07) 3636 8111 (RBWH) Townsville Health Service Dr Paul Garrahy Sunshine Coast Hospital and (07) 3240 2111 (PAH) Health Service Dr Rohan Jayasinghe Mackay Hospital and Health (07) 5519 8839 (GC) Service Dr Raibhan Yadav (07) 4796 1206 (TTH) Dr Rohan Poulter (07) 5470 3727 (NGH) Dr Michael Zhang (07) 4885 6000 (MBH) Location*: Chermside, Herston, Woolloongabba, Southport, Nambour, Townsville, Mackay Online applications: Via Queensland Health’s RMO campaign - https://www.health.qld.gov.au/rmo/ * Please note: there may be a requirement to work at other facilities located across Metro North Hospital & Health Service About Metro North Hospital and Health Service Metro North Hospital and Health Service (MNHHS) is an independent statutory body overseen by a Hospital and Health Board. It is the largest of 16 Hospital and Health Services in the Queensland Public Health system. It covers an area of 4157 square kilometres and serves a population approaching 900,000 people. MNHHS is unique in its composition in that two of its five hospitals are tertiary facilities that provide statewide super specialty services such as Heart and Lung Transplantation, Burns, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Metro North HHS has a range of subacute, post acute, community based health services to support patient discharge and hospital avoidance as well as a number of residential facilities, Oral Health Services and a fully integrated Mental Health Service including both community and hospital based care. Our Vision MNHHS exemplifies compassionate, innovative and high quality health care, providing one hospital and health service for many. Page 1 of 3 Our Values . Respect . Teamwork . Compassion . Shared Responsibility Our values support those of the Queensland Public Service of Customers first, Ideas into action, Unleash potential, Be courageous, and Empower people. Please visit our website for additional information about MNHHS. http://www.health.qld.gov.au/metronorth/ THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL Work Unit: The Prince Charles Hospital is the major tertiary level cardiothoracic referral hospital for Queensland, the largest such unit in Australia and one of the largest services of its type in Australia. The Cardiology Program at The Prince Charles Hospital services the single largest cohort of inpatients, within the campus. In 2008 - 2009 the interventional program was amongst the first three sites in Australia to introduce cutting edge technology as part of a world-wide research program. The Prince Charles Hospital Cardiology service has a full range of cardiac services including interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, adult congenital heart disease, heart failure and cardiac transplantation. There is a close association between the cardiology unit and radiology unit. There is a magnetic resonance imaging service that has a full range of cardiac investigation services. CCU beds total 16 and Cardiology beds total 76. There are more then 11,000 Echocardiographies, 4000 Cath Lab procedures and 1500 EP procedures performed yearly. The Prince Charles Hospital has the only Heart Transplant Centre in Queensland and has mechanical cardiac support access. Each Registrar works within a clinical cardiology unit and is one of a number of trainees. Allocation of specific terms is by negotiation. The Prince Charles Hospital maintains accredited vocational training positions in relevant specialities, varying from highly specialised to general secondary and tertiary practice. Each clinical unit has specific requirements of its Registrar and these will be discussed upon commencement. The Registrar may be required to rotate to Mackay Hospital as part of their time at The Prince Charles Hospital. Over the next five years The Prince Charles Hospital Cardiology Program will continue to provide a high quality, large volume tertiary and quaternary cardiology service to the population of Metro North and Queensland. It is poised to enhance development of innovative strategies to manage the burden of disease through both chronic disease management programs and new technologies. The Cardiology Program is well positioned to expand and enhance its training and education role to train the workforce for new facilities (public and private) that are planned around the state. The Cardiology Program will foster its collaborations and build capacity at other sites as part of its leadership role. GOLD COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Gold Coast University Hospital has two campuses, one in picturesque Southport and the other in the fast-growing suburb of Robina. Southport has a busy CCU with 12 beds and about 3000 admissions, including approx. 300 infarcts per year. There is an adjacent 16 bed “step down” unit which also functions as a “chest pain unit” with 8 telemetry units. There is a 60 monitored bed inpatient unit shared with cardiac surgery. The hospital offers all cardiac services and cardiac surgery services. Our service area caters also to the busy base hospitals in the Northern NSW region. We have over 11 cardiologists, a busy and comprehensive cardiac imaging service with TEE, TOE and accesses to a multi-slice CT scanner and MRI for cardiac imaging. We have a busy cardiac catheterization suite where coronary and non-coronary cardiac interventions are performed with a particular specialization in trans-radial access. We have a 24/7 primary angioplasty service. We offer cardiac electrophysiology/RF ablation service, a specialty lipid clinic and a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary heart failure program. We also have a very comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program. Our rhythm management program also includes a versatile pacing service and a busy pace maker clinic. We have an active academic program with the involvement in international multi-centre clinical trials, supported by experienced clinical research staff. We have a very comprehensive teaching program with regular intra-departmental, in-hospital and the Coast based teaching sessions on the different aspects of cardiology with active participation of cardiologists and other specialists. Page 2 of 9 We employ five advanced trainees. One position rotates via the Lismore Base Hospital for 10 weeks and the other via the Robina hospital for three months. A further five registrars in general medical training doing cardiology rotation (total 9 registrars). We hope to open up fellowship positions in interventional cardiology and electrophysiology in the future. We offer a full range of non-invasive facilities includes transthoracic echocardiography, transoesophageal echo, stress testing (including stress echo), Holter, memory loop event recording, signal averaged ECG etc. We also offer temporary and permanent pacemaker implantation (including BiV) and ICD insertion. The hospital has three state-of-the-art cardiac catheterisation laboratories – one designated EP lab, with one hybrid lab in the surgical suites. There is a 24/7 acute angioplasty service. We perform over 2000 angiogram procedures and approximately 720 angioplasty procedures in the lab. We also have a comprehensive program in cardiac rhythm management led by an experienced cardiac Electrophysiologist. Trainees will receive training in coronary angiography, electrophysiology, pacing, echocardiography, stress testing, advanced heart failure management, cardiovascular prevention and both inpatient and outpatient clinical cardiac care. Our outpatient and ambulatory care facility offers several daily cardiology clinics and we have an outreach service which includes an Indigenous cardiac clinic. The trainee will also be expected to participate in providing services to the coronary care unit at the Robina hospital. Trainees will actively participate in the weekly clinical meetings in angiography/angioplasty, echocardiography and journal club meetings and daily informal sessions held for registrars, resident and medical student teaching. The trainees will be given encouragement and guidance to actively participate in cardiovascular research and publication. Gold Coast University Hospital is the principal teaching hospital of the Medical faculties of Griffith University and the Bond University. Trainees are expected to actively participate in the teaching of medical students from the two universities and there is the provision to apply for academic titles. Trainees will also be involved in RMO and registrar teaching. Griffith University has a large, state-of-the-art clinical teaching block adjacent to the hospital that provides the latest in modern teaching and laboratory facilities. This is an exciting period of expansion at the Gold Coast University Hospital. ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL Services provided include cardiac catheterisation and interventional services, permanent and temporary pacing, a comprehensive electrophysiology