Specialist Paediatric Anaesthetist, Starship Children's Health at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Te Toka Tumai Auckland, Auckland

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Nau mai, haere mai ki Starship Children’s Hospital!

We have a wonderful opportunity to join New Zealand’s premier tertiary children’s hospital as a Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist

· Work with the leading provider of child health care in New Zealand

· All applicants who are considering Permanent, Fixed term or casual role are welcome to apply

Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity

Starship Children’s Hospital (Auckland), the leading provider of child health care in New Zealand and the South Pacific is seeking a Paediatric Anaesthetist to join our team. The exact start date is flexible and negotiable with the successful candidate. This role is due to retirement, and planned service expansion.

This role is for a specialist paediatric anaesthetist wanting to contribute clinically to care across the full spectrum of surgical disciplines in children, excluding paediatric cardiac surgery.

The Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine manages approximately 15,000 cases per year, including work outside of the operating room where we have a busy workload encompassing radiology, interventional procedures, and radiotherapy. We also deliver day-case surgery to our local community on a separate site. This workload is supported internally by both a pre-assessment service and a dedicated acute pain team. We maintain close relationships with large PICU and NICU teams serving our community locally and nationally.

Specific time is provided within the role to support non-clinical activities, and members of the team are active locally, nationally, and internationally in teaching, education, quality improvement and research.

A successful applicant would join a team of 30 Consultants, 4 Fellows and 7 Registrars at the leading provider of tertiary paediatric care for New Zealand and the South Pacific.

For further details, please refer to the Position Description here

Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills

To be successful, you must be registered with the Medical Council of New Zealand and be vocationally registered, or eligible for such registration (Vocational/Locum Tenens). Applicants must be eligible to work in New Zealand. Preference will be given to New Zealand Citizens and New Zealand residents as per New Zealand employment requirements, though our multi-cultural department would welcome overseas applicants.

If you are an overseas applicant and have overseas medical qualifications, you will be required to provide EPIC source verification of your qualifications for your registration application. For more information about the registration process and source verification of qualifications, please visit www.mcnz.org.nz

Immigration NZ has introduced a new Accredited Employer Work Visa system from 4 July 2022. For some positions, this includes a clear pathway to residency. And of course, for successful candidates offered a position with us who require a Work Visa, we will provide support with their Visa application. Here is a link for more information on Immigration NZ Accredited Employer Work Visa

Other requirements for the role include:

· FANZCA (or equivalent)

· Fellowship training in Paediatric Anaesthesia (or equivalent experience)

· Ability to provide on-call cover across the full range of Paediatric Anaesthesia

For more information about the role please contact Dr Dean Frear, Service Clinical Director - Paediatric Anesthesia email DFrear@adhb.govt.nz

Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation

We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We are part of Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s national health service. We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Starship Children’s Hospital, located in central Auckland.

Te Toka Tumai | Starship Child Health is the leading provider of child health care in New Zealand and the South Pacific, providing world-class inpatient, outpatient, trauma, emergency, and urgent care to children and their whānau. Starship is part of Te whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We seek to lead New Zealand in paediatric service delivery through the building of our reputation as a national centre of excellence in child health care.

He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | Why you will enjoy working here
We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai | Auckland. For more information on what we offer, please click here.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

Please submit your application online, outlining your experience and motivation to apply to this role in your cover letter and CV quoting job reference ADHB20796.

To view details about our recruitment process, click here.

To apply please click 'apply now' below. If you have any queries about accessibility or technical issues with the online process, please contact Honey Pillai, Recruitment Consultant at HPillai@adhb.govt.nz

Advertising Closes: 20 October 2024(New Zealand Standard Time).