Employment Type: Temporary Full Time (25-Aug-2026 to 06-Feb-2028)
Remuneration: $117,745 - $147,664
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: CAM28879

Training offered at the Nepean Hospital NICU includes all aspects of Neonatal Intensive Care, including various modes of conventional ventilation as well as high-frequency ventilation and non-invasive respiratory support modes.

The successful applicant will be exposed to all aspects of Neonatology. It is the expectation that the doctor can competently assess babies, be proficient in neonatal resuscitation & procedural skills and be able to formulate a management plan and perform necessary procedures to institute that plan as required.

What you'll be doing

• The NICU Trainee is responsible for all the NICU inpatients as well as all at-risk deliveries, and is responsible to a consultant who is off-site after-hours.
• Trainees will have the opportunity to enrol for Diploma and/or Masters in Neonatology course (duration 1 to 2 years).
• Trainees will have the opportunity to enrol for CCPU training (Point of care, Certificate in Clinician Performed Ultrasound Neonatal, ASUM).

Where you'll be working

• Nepean Hospital has an extremely active Perinatal Unit, ensuring a regular supply of high-risk deliveries within the hospital.
• The NICU caters for more than 4,000 annual deliveries at the Nepean Hospital, as well as a number of transfers from other areas.
• The NICU manages more than 1,000 admissions annually, about one third of these requiring Level 3 care.
• Nepean NICU is a 37 bed department with currently 12 ventilated cots, up to 12 High-dependency (flex) cots and a separately located 16 bed Special Care Unit.
• The NICU staff currently includes 6 full-time Staff Specialist Neonatologists, 3 CMOs, 1 Clinical Fellow and 9 Trainees.
• In 2022 we will move into a newly purpose build state-of-the-art NICU with the challenges adapting to a new environment and developing new models of care.

For more detail about this role including training, education and research opportunities and employee benefits please download the Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine Trainee Unaccredited Position Information Sheet.