About the role

Mater Mothers’ Hospital’s Neonatal Critical Care Unit (NCCU) is seeking a Neonatal Fellow or Senior Registrar with neonatal experience to join the team as a Neonatal Fellow on a full time basis for 12 months commencing 3^rd February 2025 until February 2026.

Mater Mothers’ Hospital (MMH) South Brisbane is Australia’s largest maternity hospital, caring for over 11,000 births a year. The Neonatal Critical Care Unit (NCCU) is also one of Australia’s largest neonatal units and is a combined tertiary perinatal NICU as well as providing services often given in a children’s hospital NICU, such as pre and post-operative surgical care, sub-speciality liaison and pre-operative cardiac care. Over 2,000 babies from Queensland and Northern New South Wales receive care in the NCCU every year. The Mater NCCU consists of 42 intensive care cots and 34 special care cots.

The Mater South Brisbane campus is directly next to the Queensland Children’s Hospital and this proximity and the close collaborative working relationship we have with QCH makes us a quaternary referral centre for babies with cardiac or surgical conditions or who require sub-speciality input into their care.

Salary: Commensurate with experience plus superannuation and access to not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900

What you’ll be doing

Depending on neonatal experience, you will be working in the Neonatal Fellow or Neonatal Registrar roster, with the opportunity to step up in as skills and experience are acquired. Neonatal Fellow is a key clinical and leadership role within Mater Neonatal Critical Care Unit (NCCU). You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team in the provision of family-centred developmental care to babies in the Neonatal Critical Care Unit as well as to babies in other areas of the organisation, including in an outpatient setting.

The purpose of the position is:

• To liaise with and assist the Director of Neonatology with the provision of comprehensive neonatal services to the Mater Mothers' Hospital
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team in the provision of family-centred developmental care to babies in the Neonatal Critical Care Unit (NCCU) as well as to babies in other areas of the organisation, including in an outpatient setting
• To practice evidence-based neonatology under the supervision of a neonatologist
• To participate in ward rounds, attend neonatal outpatient clinics and attend high risk deliveries and emergencies in theatre, birthing or postnatal floors
• To maintain adequate medical records on all patients
• To supervise registrars and resident medical officers who work for the Neonatal Critical Care Unit (NCCU)
• To provide education, clinical teaching and mentoring for staff within Mater Health, including rotating medical officers from Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH)
• To liaise and collaborate with other clinical teams across Queensland, including with teams from QCH, other neonatal intensive care units and special care nursery services
• To utilise and ensure compliance with contemporary human resource management practice and principles including workplace health and safety, equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination requirements

About you

To be successful in this position you will have:

• Registration as a medical practitioner without conditions, with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Undertaking or completed fellowship training in neonatal perinatal medicine or general paediatrics with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians or equivalent
• Experience in providing evidence-based family-centred neonatal care
• Tertiary level registrar experience in perinatal, cardiac and surgical neonatology is desired
• Up to date knowledge of all aspects of neonatal perinatal medicine, including the use of equipment used in neonatal intensive care
• Skills in performing procedures commonly used in neonatal intensive care
• Ability to work harmoniously within a team and communicate effectively at all levels
• Ability to evaluate situations and make objective judgements and decisions
• Clinical leadership qualities

This is a unique opportunity for successful candidates to gain valuable neonatal experience in a large quaternary perinatal and surgical centre and use this as a stepping stone to training in paediatrics, neonatology or another training pathway.

Why join us?

Mater is Queensland’s largest and most innovative not-for-profit healthcare service, providing care for almost 700,000 patients a year across a network of 11 hospitals.

We are a leader in healthcare, education and research — and that’s because we employ exceptional people. #MAKEYOURMATERMOVE

• Via salary packaging arrangements, allocate some living expenses directly from your pre-taxable income and ultimately increase your take-home pay
• Access to package meal and entertainment expenses via salary packaging
• Access to leading education and professional development via Mater Education
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and on-site pastoral care teams
• Discounts to local and national business/venues for Dining/Retail/Travel & Accommodation/Other
• Access to on-site, discounted parking
• Discounts at various campus cafés and coffee venues

Applications close 11th October 2024. Please contact Dr Pita Birch Director of Neonatology pita.birch@mater.org.au for more information.