About the Role:
The Advanced Trainee O&G Registrar position at Logan Hospital is intended as an opportunity to gain experience and skills required for the important transition from senior registrar to consultant position. This role would include an opportunity to complete the Advanced Laparoscopic and Hysteroscopic ATM.
About You:
You will understand Metro South Health's values, have a genuine desire to join our team, share our purpose to deliver quality healthcare everyday to our community.
You will contribute to our team with your passion and expertise in Obstetrics & Gynaecology with the ability to:
What we can offer you:
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values underpin what we care about as a health service, how we treat each other and our commitment to caring for the community. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation and family responsibilities to apply. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community.
Logan Hospital:
You'll be joining Logan Hospital at the most exciting time in its 33-year history! We're the major health centre for the Logan region – one of the fasted growing regions in Queensland with one of the busiest Emergency Departments in the state.
Our community is one of the most diverse in Australia, with 27 per cent of residents born overseas. This brings a diverse range of patients & an opportunity to make a real difference in the community. We provide a broad range of healthcare services from birth through to end-of-life, including medical, surgical, mental health, maternity, paediatrics and rehabilitation.
Now's the time to join the team at Logan Hospital. With Queensland's largest ever hospital expansion with a total capital investment of more than half a billion dollars underway, you'll have all the benefits of working for a big, metropolitan hospital—while being part of a ‘small town' team that values who you are and what you do.
Logan Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.
Gynaecology
We provide general gynaecological services for women, with a focus on management of menstrual disorders, contraceptive services, family advisory services, reproductive endocrinology including ovulation disorders, pelvic floor dysfunction and female incontinence of urine, management of menopause, plus a number of other acute and chronic gynaecological disorders.
Our outpatient gynaecology service provides specialist care for women with: menstrual and other gynaecological bleeding disorders, endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain, pelvic floor problems (pelvic organ prolapse), urinary Incontinence, infertility assessment and initial treatment, sexual dysfunction, and menopausal symptoms.
Logan Hospital has an experienced team of gynaecologists who offer advanced laparoscopic and hysteroscopic procedures, pelvic reconstructive work, minimal access urological procedures and vaginal surgery. This service is for young women from 13 years to 19 years of age with gynaecological problems.
We also provide colposcopy services, which is an individualised specialist service for women with pap smear abnormalities. We have a dedicated clinic that is assigned to colposcopic assessment, cervical biopsy and post-treatment follow up care.
Maternity
We provide high quality maternity services for women across our region, with a focus on ensuring the very best care and experience for the patient and their family.
Our aim is to ensure the birthing experience is centered around the patients choices, and that they are given information to assist to make choices which are based on the most up to date evidence and made by informed consent. Our post-natal environment is aimed at supporting parents to build their confidence in how best to care for their newborn baby.
Logan Hospital has birthing suites with individual ensuites. We support women in their birthing choices and facilitate active labour, by encouraging mobilisation, and maintenance of normality, by having dimmed lighting and music available. We have showers available in all birth suite rooms, and we are looking forward to introducing birthing pools in our refurbished unit.
We have 24/7 obstetric and paediatric support and a Special Care Nursery.
A birthing suite lounge with tea and coffee making facilities is available for support people to have a short break during labour. Food is available at cafes on the second floor of the hospital or at the nearby shops.
Logan Maternity refurbishment
Our family is growing. We're building a bigger, better Logan Maternity for our community.
We've opened our new Maternity Inpatient Unit, and construction will shortly commence on our new Birthing Suites.
We understand that the journey to parenthood is one of the most important times in someone’s life. That's why the new Logan Maternity will offer:
· modern facilities that support leading models of care
· greater birthing choices
· improved privacy
· improved access
· birthing pools
· dedicated facilities for families, partners and carers.
The $18.875 million project will expand our maternity inpatient unit, birthing suites and special care nursery, to provide contemporary maternity care for our local community, close to home.
Logan Hospital is the major health centre for one of the fastest growing regions in the state. We have grown from a 48-bed community hospital in 1990 to a 485-bed1 hospital today, mirroring the rapid growth in population in the Logan region.
We provide acute medical, surgical, rehabilitation, maternity, cardiology, orthopaedics, renal and other specialty services for children and adults.
Logan Hospital is a ‘digital hospital’ with a fully integrated electronic medical record, supporting improvements to the quality and efficiency of healthcare services for patients and the community. We also operate the second busiest emergency department in the state.
A major expansion of Logan Hospital is underway to provide new beds and treatment spaces to provide more healthcare services for the local community. The work includes:
As a teaching hospital, we help train future health care professionals and participate in research through strong partnerships with Queensland’s leading tertiary institutions.