Emergency Medicine/Anaesthesia Senior Registrar Position (2027 RMO TY)

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders


Emergency Medicine/Anaesthesia Senior Registrar Position

2027 RMO Training year

Start date: February 2027


Palmerston North Hospital Emergency Department is actively looking for Senior Emergency Medicine trainees to join our team and so we are offering a dedicated Senior Registrar roster (6- or 12-month terms) with the following benefits:

No night shifts!
Two non-clinical shifts per month
Alternating weeks between the ED and Anaesthetic Departments so you can finely hone those advanced airway skills before you transition to Fellowship.
1 in 3 weekends
Be a part of our established Fellowship examination programmes
Salary as per the relevant Collective Agreement. (Category C – Shift rosters)

This position is for a ACEM TS3 or early/late TS4 ACEM trainee who would like an opportunity to develop your leadership, teaching and quality improvement skills.

We are an ACEM Tier 2 non-Major referral ED and TS4 ED site with accreditation for 24 months of training, the Paediatric Emergency Requirement (PER) and Regional, Rural and Remote (RRR) requirement

Our Anaesthesia department is accredited for six months of training which satisfies the ACEM Critical Care component and is also Non-ED TS4 accredited so it can count towards your TS4 training time.


Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora – MidCentral District's Emergency Department is an Australasian Level 4 regional trauma centre with approximately 55,000 presentations per annum. It is a mixed ED and is Tier 2 accredited for 24 months of training under the revised Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) training programme. We are also a TS4 accredited ED. Our ED sees a large volume of trauma and high acuity paediatric and adult medical patient presentations. You can expect regular exposure to numerous critical procedures and a vast range of complex pathology. We are a close-knit team of FACEMs who are committed to the career development of our registrars and to providing a supportive training environment.


As one of our Emergency Medicine Senior Registrars, you will be placed on a dedicated Senior Registrar roster with alternating weeks in ED and Anaesthesia. The role places a heavy emphasis on the TS4 learning objectives/requirements:

Leadership
Teaching
Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance (QI/QA)

You can expect a roster that replaces night shifts with dedicated clinical support time, dedicated Anaesthesia time, intentional rostered days off to facilitate study and affords you greater clinical and non-clinical responsibilities in both specialties:

Clinical responsibilities:
ED:
Assist in the co-ordination and flow of the Emergency Department by providing clinical leadership in discrete clinical areas: Main Department, Resus, Paediatric Zone and our new Fast Track
Provision of bedside teaching and clinical supervision of your more junior colleagues
Help us introduce Senior Decision Makers earlier into the patient journey with our new Physician in Triage process
Anaesthesia:
Supernumerary Registrar position with a formative assessment process aimed at increasing clinical responsibilities for all elements of Anaesthetic care
Non-clinical responsibilities:
ED:
Take an active role in delivering Emergency Department teaching every Thursday, help facilitate our local ED simulation programme and be involved in our regular procedural skill workshops
Chair the weekly ED RMO meeting and liaise with the ED SMO group on a regular basis at our SMO meeting
Develop your QI/QA skills by co-ordinating/presenting M&M/Adverse Event meetings and engage with our local Director of Research to undertake audit and other research activities
Anaesthesia:
Be involved in delivery of Anaesthetic teaching and QI/QA activities
Te Papaioea | Palmerston North

The city is diverse, lively, affordable and a great place to live. It is renowned for its mountain bike park, river walks, large number of restaurants and cafes, plus easy access to surf beaches and the Ruahine and Tararua mountains. Commutes are short and there are excellent schools in the city. There is plenty to do locally and with its central location it is also easy to get away and enjoy all the major attractions of the Lower North Island, including the ski fields of Ruapehu, the wineries of the Hawkes Bay and Martinborough, or the capital city of Wellington.


Painga | What's in it for you

We are committed to supporting our trainees as they progress through the ACEM training programme. Our Registrars enjoy a weekly, structured, protected teaching programme which is consultant led and delivered using an array of teaching strategies and features dedicated cultural competence, cultural safety and paediatric emergency medicine teaching.

We have a Fellowship examination programme that is highly supported and delivered weekly, in addition to the teaching programme. There is an embedded mentoring programme and plentiful opportunities for involvement in clinical research and departmental non-clinical portfolios.


Mōu ake | About you

Ideal applicants will be ACEM trainees in late ACEM Training Stage 3 or early/late Training Stage 4. You must be eligible to register for General Scope with the Medical Council of New Zealand.


Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | The Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

In the interests of protecting our people and our patients, all appointments will be subject to:

Occupational Health Assessment
Some positions are defined as a Core Children's worker under the Children's Act and require full safety checks completed before employment commences. (Police Vetting)

How to apply

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For further information about this role please reach out to:

Oni Alias - Emergency Physician - Director of Training

Aidan Murray - Emergency Physician - Director of Training

Lindy Chivell - RMO Recruiter


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