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Korero mo te turanga - About the roleIntensive Care Fellow / CICM Transition Year Fellow / Senior Registrar12 month position, starting 28 July 2025 (January start not available in 2025)Wellington Hospital / Wakefield HospitalSalaries are calculated based on relevant previous years of experience and the average weekly hours of work as set out in the relevant run description.
For the current salary bands, please refer to either the Specialty Trainees of New Zealand (SToNZ) or Resident Doctors - Association (RDA) Multi-Employer Collective Agreements.
The existing run description has been attached as a guideline only. We anticipate opening our additional 12 bed HDU at the beginning of 2025, which will necessitate a change to our current roster and an increase in the number of registrars participating in this roster.
Mo to matou ropu - About our teamNew Zealand's capital city, Wellington, is a vibrant place to live and work and has repeatedly been voted as New Zealand's top lifestyle city. Wellington is considered a cultural and creative hub of the country and hosts numerous cultural events as well as live theatre, music, and festivals.
We are renowned for our café culture, nightlife, fantastic restaurants, sparkling harbour, surf spots, amazing views, outdoor activities, and close proximity to vineyards, ensuring you are never short of activities to do outside of working hours.
For more information about living in Wellington, visit the Discover Wellington website.
Join our fellow 615 Resident Medical Officers employed by the 3 District Health Boards of the Wellington Region (Capital & Coast, Hutt Valley, and Wairarapa DHB's) to gain leading experience, medical supervision, and training.
Wellington ICU provides tertiary Intensive Care services for over one million people in central New Zealand covering a geographic radius of 300 kilometres, including the lower North Island and upper South Island.
We support six other public hospitals that have Intensive Care Units and one hospital that does not. To manage such a large area, we run a busy Flight Retrieval Service with the capability to provide Intensive Care-level retrievals around the clock.
The ICU is a 24-bed unit providing general intensive care as well as supporting sub-speciality services including cardiothoracics & cardiology, neurosurgery, paediatric surgery, and trauma.
Each bedspace is equipped to provide either Intensive or High Dependency level care to both medical and surgical (post-operative) patients.
Our service is strongly consultant-led and consultant ward rounds are performed three times a day on weekdays (8am, 4pm, and 9pm) and twice a day during the weekend (8am and 9pm).
We admit almost 2000 patients every year, of which 40% are elective (including approximately 600 cardiothoracic patients). Approximately 8% of our admissions are paediatrics.
The median length of stay for patients is 40 hours.
Wellington ICU14 Registrar positions, and four fellow positions (suitable for CICM transition year fellows), along with four additional Wakefield / Wellington ICU registrars with a non-clinical fellowship attached.We support a mixture of trainees rotating from anaesthesia, medicine, emergency medicine, and surgery, as well as College of Intensive Care Medicine trainees.The four fellow positions fulfil the College of Intensive Care Medicine requirements for Transition year training.The opportunity to gain experience in ICU non-clinical roles including education, simulation, research, trauma, aeromedical, echocardiography.Provides a regional helicopter / fixed wing based retrieval service for central NZ in which our registrars are involved.A strong research focus - working in our department provides the opportunity to be involved in critical care research that will change practice around the world.An excellent teaching program with multidisciplinary input led by senior clinicians, regular simulation training, and we run the Wellington Intensive Care Medicine course, a very popular ICU part 2 preparation course.Always have at least two registrars rostered on, and our roster ensures that more junior registrars are well supported.Mou - About youSuitable for doctors who are final year trainees in the CICM training program, or are at fellowship level for other related speciality programs, or are looking for post-training Fellowship opportunities.Candidates should be working at an advanced level within ICU as this role partakes in the after-hours roster working on call in a supervisory capacity (supported and supervised by our ICU specialists).You must have eligibility for general or provisional general registration with the Medical Council of New Zealand.You will need to be a NZ or Australian citizen or resident, or have an appropriate visa to be eligible to live and work in NZ.Here at the Te Whatu Ora Capital, Coast, Hutt Valley & Wairarapa districts we embrace diversity and welcome applications from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disability, and religions.
A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and serve our community.
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Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai. By joining together we will succeed.
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