Transitional Year Fellow ICU

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi. Engari, he toa takitini.

Success is not the work of one, but the work of many.

Fixed-term, full-time 

80 hours per fortnight (1.0FTE)

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Te Matau a Māui Hawke’s Bay have a position available for an Intensive Care Transitional Year/Fellow for a 12-month fixed term position to replace the outgoing Fellow.

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a Level 2 ICU providing a high standard of general intensive care to both adults and children, including complex multi-system life support. The unit is capable of providing non-invasive and mechanical ventilation, extra-corporeal renal replacement therapy and invasive cardiac monitoring.
Transfers to other intensive care units are considered for patients requiring specialised care and may include ventilated burns patients (Middlemore), non-ventilated burns and plastic surgery patients (Lower Hutt), Cardio-Thoracic (Wellington or Auckland), neurosurgery (Wellington), and critically ill paediatric patients (PICU, Starship in Auckland).

A total of 13 beds: 4–6 High Dependency beds and 5-7 Intensive Care beds, including a negative pressure isolation room, with en-suite facilities and an ante-room for strict isolation precautions.
The Intensive Care Service also provides a Critical Care Transport Service for the Hospital, retrievals from Wairoa Hospital and Inter-Hospital Transports and also participates in the Resuscitation and Rapid Response Service within the Hospital.

The Intensive Care Unit currently has a team of nine Consultants and 14 Registrars.
Our Intensive Care Physicians have high clinical profile within the department and are committed to the delivery of high-quality medical care.

Hawke’s Bay is on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand and is famous for a warm and sunny climate, fine wine and Art Deco architecture. There are excellent schools and a wide range of sporting and leisure opportunities. Overall the Hawke’s Bay offers an enviable lifestyle to you and your family.

Applicants must be registered or eligible for vocational registration, with the New Zealand Medical Council as an Intensive Care Physician or general registration with suitable qualifications.

To review the position profile, click HERE.

For further information, please contact Dr Louise Trent, Head of Department, on email at louise.trent@hawkesbaydhb.govt.nz

Health NZ Hawke’s Bay in general encourages a workforce that is innovative, eager to learn and enhance their skills and is passionate about caring for our community. As part of our team we will support, encourage and help you to develop your career with us.

We are committed to delivering and living our Te Whatu Ora values of He kauanuanu – Respect, Ākina – Improvement, Rāranga te tira– Teamwork and Tauwhiro – Care. You should be someone who has similar personal values.

We are proud of our team’s diversity.  We know the strength of a diverse and inclusive workforce helps us achieve the best outcomes for our patients and the communities in which we operate and serve. 

Health NZ Hawke’s Bay has assessed this as a Category A position and the expectation is for applicants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.