About Us

Children's Health Queensland is a specialist statewide hospital and health service dedicated to caring for children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.

We are committed to collaborating with all of our healthcare partners, most importantly families, to ensure we consistently deliver safe, high-quality patient and family-centred care.

A recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, education and research, Children's Health Queensland delivers a full range of clinical services, tertiary level care and health promotion programs.

We provide an integrated network of services through:

• The Queensland Children's Hospital ( https://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au/lcch )
• The Child and Youth Community Health Service ( https://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au/chq/our-services/community-health-services/ )
• The Child and Youth Mental Health Service ( https://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au/chq/our-services/mental-health-services/ )
• Statewide services and programs, including specialist outreach and telehealth services
• Partnerships with other hospital and health services and non-government organisations

Children's Health Queensland provides services from key locations in the Brisbane metropolitan area and works with the 15 other hospital and health services as well as NGOs and charity partners in Queensland to deliver an integrated network of healthcare services and support across the state.

Your Opportunity:

Our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is seeking a Paediatric Intensive Care Specialist interested in an opportunity to fill a permanent or fixed-term temporary Staff Specialist position.

Our state-of-the-art 22-30 bed PICU admits 1800 patients, provides around 30 extracorporeal life support (ECLS) runs, provides advice and coordinates transport for approximately 2000 paediatric patients statewide, and retrieves over 800 critically unwell paediatric patients annually.

We offer a unique opportunity for you to join our medical team of 16 Paediatric Intensive Care Specialists and 32 trainees (from various colleges eg. CICM, RACP, ACEM), to

• provide expertise and excellence in child and family-centred Paediatric Intensive Care medicine,
• participate in driving our outstanding training and teaching program,
• participate in review and improvement activities,
• contribute to Australia and New Zealand's leading and world-class paediatric critical care research program, work in a transformative, interdisciplinary and professional team environment,
• foster an integrated environment of positive culture, wellness and diversity, 
• provide statewide advice and retrieval coordination via the Children's Health Queensland Retrieval Service (CHQRS), to improve the experience and outcomes of Queensland's critically unwell children.

What CHQ HHS can offer

Apart from contributing to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, you will also benefit from a competitive remuneration package and a working environment which embraces professional development, builds capabilities and supports staff to maximise their health and wellbeing. Additional benefits include:

• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Salary packaging
• Employee Assistance Program
• Work/life balance, variety and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here ( http://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au/work-for-us/ ).

Some roles within Queensland Health are designated as ‘Vaccination Preventable Disease (VPD) risk roles'. A VPD risk role is a role in which the incumbent may be exposed to the risk of acquisition and/or transmission of a VPD. Please refer to the attached Role Description for more information and what requirements may exist.

The Workforce attractive incentive scheme may apply to this position, please refer to the guidelines for further information https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives ( https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives ).