Join our collaborative and experienced heath care team.

Become a valued member of a professional and collegial team, with access to flexible work arrangements and pathways for career development

Job details

Your new role:

The purpose of this role is, under the supervision of senior medical staff, to provide high-quality, safe care to patients within surgical specialties and subspecialties. This role will include attending to both emergency and elective admissions, review of inpatients, and participation in ward rounds and outpatient clinics.  This role also provides supervision, feedback, teaching and support to interns, house officers and medical students.

This position includes responsibilities for delivering education and training to medical students and other staff, under the supervision of the University of Queensland. Fifty percent of the role is dedicated to this function

About you:

Education portfolio (non-clinical)

• Leadership in improving and developing UQ PAH Southside Clinical Unit programs, including How to Be a Better Teacher, How to Be a Better Intern and Training Pathways
• Undergo further professional training in Education, as applicable
• Medical student training that includes
  • Making a substantial contribution to supervision and teaching of undergraduate students across all 4 years of the MD program
  • Contribute to undergraduate teaching at University of Queensland (UQ) PAH Southside Clinical Unit
  • Assist with the development of learning materials and assessment for undergraduate students
  • Assist with the delivery of student assessment eg Direct Observation of procedural skills (DOPS) and Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
  • Contribute to the administration of educational activities within UQ PAH Southside Clinical Unit
  • Work to develop skills as a simulation educator and contribute to simulation education for students at UQ PAH Southside Clinical Unit
  • Vascular access training of medical students
  • Multiple medical interview station examination
  • Create examination questions for OSCE and MCQ exams.
  • Contribute to educational research projects where applicable
• Presentation at Grand Rounds

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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.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  Principal House Officer (UQ and Division of Surgery) 2027 (PDF)