Surgical Fellow, Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Service, Starship Child Health

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Nau mai, haere mai ki Starship Child Health!

Starship Child Health, Auckland, New Zealand is inviting applications for a 12-month surgical fellowship position in Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac surgery commencing from March 2025.

• Work in New Zealand’s premier children’s hospital for a National Service
• Fixed-term, full-time role
• Great opportunity to train in a setting with world-leading surgical, medical, ICU and anaesthetic care

Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity

We have an outstanding opportunity for a 12-month Surgical Fellowship position in Paediatric and Congenital and Cardiac Service starting in March 2024. The role's primary purpose is to provide advanced training and experience in Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at Starship Hospital. In this role, you will work closely with a highly skilled and dedicated team of cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, registrars and nursing staff managing a wide range of acute conditions with multidisciplinary input. You will have a high level of autonomy with supervised on-call work and will be actively involved in the supervision of registrars and other unit activities. Clinical research will be strongly encouraged.

The Greenlane Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Service (PCCS) is a national service based at Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland. It is the sole provider of cardiology and cardiac surgical services for infants, children and adults with congenital and acquired heart disease in New Zealand and several Pacific Island nations.

The unit has a catchment population of four and a half million and we are performing over 400 cases per year of which 350 are bypasses. Twenty percent of the procedures are performed in neonates and 15% are adult congenital operations. Current outcomes are excellent with overall 30-day mortality of below 2% and neonatal mortality of below 4% (including a Norwood program).

For further details, please refer to the Position Description here

Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills

To be successful in this role, you will require

· MBChB or equivalent

· FRACS or equivalent/possession of a postgraduate qualification in Surgery

· Eligible to be registered as a Medical Practitioner in New Zealand

· Experience in paediatric cardiac surgery

· Experience in adult cardiac surgery

Apart from the above, you must be registered with the Medical Council of New Zealand or eligible for such registration (General Registration/Special purpose registration). 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 overseas candidates are welcome to apply.

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

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 ADHB21919.

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 get in touch with Honey Pillai, Recruitment Consultant at Honey.Pillai@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz

Advert Closes: Thursday, 12 December 11:59 pm (New Zealand Standard Time).