Fellow – Pain Medicine

Fellow – Pain Medicine Health NZ - Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau South Auckland, New Zealand Want a new challenge and the opportunity to work closely with an experienced and supportive multidisciplinary team? We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Pain Fellow to join our pain teams. To see more about us please This is a fixed-term 12 month position for the year January 2025 – January 2026. We are an accredited level 1 training site for the Faculty of Pain Medicine of ANZCA, and preference will be given to current trainees of the Faculty of Pain Medicine or those intending to embark on training. The successful applicant will become a member of our outpatient chronic, and inpatient acute and complex, multidisciplinary pain teams. They will work across Middlemore Hospital, the Manukau Super Clinic, and other outlying pain clinics. Middlemore Hospital is a busy acute tertiary hospital that amongst multiple specialities is home to the National Burns Service, a regional spinal cord injury service, and Kidz First Children's Hospital. Our chronic pain team is a small, experienced and collegial multidisciplinary team comprised of Health Psychologists, Physiotherapists, Nurse Specialists, and Doctors with different specialist backgrounds (Psychiatry, Anaesthetics, Musculoskeletal Medicine, General Practice, Obstetrics and Gynaecology). We work with patients and their whanau within a biopsychosocial framework, providing initial triple-discipline assessments, individual specific treatments, and several group programs. Attachments with affiliated services (including rehabilitation, palliative care, the Community Alcohol and Drug Service (CADS), adolescent health, or liaison psychiatry (mental health) services) may be available depending on the successful applicant's areas of interest and level of training. We do not offer regular exposure to diagnostic or therapeutic pain medicine procedures. At Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau we strive to work in partnership with our communities to improve the health status of all, with particular emphasis on Maori and Pasifika peoples and communities with health disparities. To view the job description please To learn more about training to be a Specialist Pain Medicine Physician please visit no-style="font-family: Arial;">