Specialist Paediatric Anaesthetist, Starship

**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**

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.

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

**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**

To view details about our recruitment process, click here.

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