69113-02NOE

Intensive Care Medicine Post Graduate Fellow
Full-time Temporary

Closes: 17 August 2025

Classification: Post Graduate Fellow
Salary: $233,710 plus superannuation
Position No: 69113-02NOE
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 04 August 2025
Contact Officer: Dr Manoj Singh, Unit Director ICU on CHS.ICUAdmin@act.gov.au or 02 5124 5088

What can we offer you: 

  • City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra
  • Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital
  • Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions
  • 12% Superannuation
  • Visa sponsorship for eligible candidates
  • Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services

About the role: 

This position is for a February 2025 commencement for 12 months. To be eligible for this position you must be PGY7 by February 2025.

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person-centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding regions. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Medical Staff in the Canberra Health Services enjoy excellent conditions, and our Enterprise Agreement is available at: ACTPS Medical Practitioners Enterprise Agreement 2021-2022 

Canberra Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a tertiary level, mixed adult ICU that admits over 2500 patients a year. Our ICU is accredited by the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) for two years of core training and for the sub-specialities of Trauma, Cardiothoracic, and Neurosurgery.

We have a team of supportive Intensive Care specialists with a diverse range of skills and experience that provide both clinical and non-clinical support to our trainees.

We have a team of supportive Intensive Care specialists with a diverse range of skills and experience that provide both clinical and non-clinical support to our trainees.

Our ICU has accreditation by the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) for two years of general training including neuro-, cardio- and trauma ICU.  We have a strong educational focus as well as a well-established research program providing opportunities to participate in multi-centre national and international trials as well as home grown research.

The post graduate fellow position at Canberra Hospital ICU will support candidates to fulfil all the clinical and non-clinical requirements focusing on the field of clinical research in intensive care. The post-graduate year fellow will be part of the specialist clinical roster and will have support and supervision from a dedicated intensivist to mature in that role. The role will have protected research component (0.4 to 05 FTE), and fellows will be expected to report to the lead of ICU research portfolio while the clinical component of the reporting will be to the ICU leadership team.

The role will allow the candidate to develop higher skills in the field of research. The fellow will be expected to contribute to activities such as leading and coordinating the education program for junior medical staff (including journal club and echocardiography teaching), assisting with trainee CICM examination preparation, facilitating local delivery of courses such as BASIC, beyond BASIC, Canberra ICU Course, Canberra Airway Course, Introduction to Procedures in Acute Care (IPAC) and Canberra Critical Care Echo Course.

The research fellow will have dedicated 40-50% protected roster time to fulfil the responsibilities in the field of ICU research. Fellows will be expected to initiate or continue their own local research projects within the intensive care or in related fields/departments. The fellow will be supported in this by the ICU research and data team and collaboration through CHS, ANU and Canberra University.

Prior to commencement, the successful candidates will be required to:

  • Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check
  • Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy

For more information regarding the position details click here for the Position Description


For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

The new state-of-the-art Building 5 is now officially open at Canberra Hospital. This 44,000sqm, nine-storey facility, the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the Territory's history, delivers cutting-edge acute clinical services. Building 5 seamlessly integrates with existing campus buildings, ensuring smooth public access, patient transportation, and efficient logistics.

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