ICU Registrar / Non Clinical Fellow Wakefield and Hospitals

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Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role

Intensive Care Services: Intensive Care Registrar / Non Clinical Fellow (Four Positions)

Simulation and Education Fellow

Trauma Fellow

Research Fellow

Echocardiography Fellow

12 month Fixed-term positions, starting 28 July 2025

Providing RMO level support to Wakefield Private Hospital

Developing a non-clinical interest/portfolio at Wellington Regional Hospital

Mō tō mātou rōpū - About our team

New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, is a vibrant place to live and work and has repeatedly been voted as New Zealand's top lifestyle city. Wellington is considered a cultural and creative hub of the country and hosts numerous cultural events as well as live theatre, music, and festivals. We are renowned for our café culture, nightlife, fantastic restaurants, sparkling harbour, surf spots, amazing views, outdoor activities, and close proximity to vineyards ensuring you are never short of activities to do outside of working hours. For more information about living in Wellington, visit the Discover Wellington website.

Our Hospitals and Services
Join our fellow 740 Resident Medical Officers employed by Te Whatu Ora Capital, Coast, and Hutt Valley to gain leading experience, medical supervision, and training.

Wellington Regional and Kenepuru Hospitals

Wellington ICU provides tertiary Intensive Care services for over one million people in central New Zealand covering a geographic radius of 300 kilometres, including the lower North Island and upper South Island. We support six other public hospitals that have Intensive Care Units and one hospital that does not. To manage such a large area we run a busy Flight Retrieval Service with the capability to provide Intensive Care-level retrievals around the clock.

The ICU is a 24-bed unit providing general intensive care as well as supporting sub-specialty services including cardiothoracics & cardiology, neurosurgery, paediatric surgery, and trauma. Each bed space is equipped to provide either Intensive or High Dependency level care to both medical and surgical (post-operative) patients. Our service is strongly consultant-led and consultant ward rounds are performed three times a day on weekdays and twice a day during the weekend. In 2025 we also plan to open an additional 12 bed HDU.

We admit almost 2000 patients every year of which 40% are elective (including approximately 600 cardiothoracic patients). Approximately 8% of our admissions are paediatrics. The median length of stay for patients is 40 hours. For more information see the Wellington ICU website: ***

Wellington ICU

Overall we have 14 Wellington ICU registrar positions, 4 Wakefield/ Wellington ICU reg / non-clinical fellows and four Wellington ICU fellow positions. Each of these roles is advertised separately.

We have a mixture of trainees rotating from anaesthesia, medicine, emergency medicine, and surgery, as well as intensive care trainees.

This position gives applicants the opportunity to gain experience in ICU non-clinical roles including education, simulation, research, trauma, and echocardiography.

Our unit provides a regional helicopter/fixed wing based retrieval service for central NZ in which our registrars are involved.

A strong research focus - working in our department provides the opportunity to be involved in critical care research that will change practice around the world.

An excellent teaching program with multidisciplinary input led by senior clinicians, regular simulation training, and we run the Wellington Intensive Care Medicine course, a very popular ICU part 2 preparation course.

Always have at least two registrars rostered on and our roster ensures that more junior registrars are well supported.

Wakefield Hospital

Wakefield Hospital is a 39 bed private hospital providing mostly post-operative elective surgical care. There is a 5-bed ICU that mostly cares for patients after elective cardiac surgery with a small number of post-operative neurosurgical and general surgical patients.

Wakefield Hospital is located in the same suburb as Wellington Hospital, approx. 1 km away.

While at Wakefield Hospital you will work alongside the surgeons and anaesthetists providing mostly after-hours post-operative care. After-hours you will often be the only on-site doctor which is why it is important that you have anaesthetic/airway experience. You will have on-call support from either the Intensivist or Anaesthetist.

Moū - About you

Suitable for Resident Medical Officers who are training in intensive care medicine or anaesthesia or overseas specialists wanting to learn new skills and recharge their batteries on a paid sabbatical in New Zealand.

These positions are designed to be self-direct learning time heavy, providing a good opportunity to pursue a subspecialty interest, with a workload and roster that facilitates studying for exams.

You will contribute towards and help develop one of four subspecialty programmes within the ICU: Research, Simulation and Education, Trauma, and Echocardiography. Each programme has a designated supervisor.

As this role includes support for Wakefield Private Hospital ICU, the candidate must be independently competent at airway management. This means you would have at least 12 months of dedicated anaesthesia experience. Candidates should be working at an advanced level within ICU or Anaesthesia as this role partakes in the after-hours roster working on call in a supervisory capacity.

The minimum duration of appointment is six months.

You must have eligibility for general or provisional general registration with the Medical Council of New Zealand. Information on the process of application for this can be found on their website.

You will need to either be an Australian or New Zealand resident, or have an appropriate visa to be eligible to live and work in NZ.

Please note - important information for overseas graduates who are applying: The MCNZ has introduced a new method of primary source verification using the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates - Electronic Portfolio of International Credentials (ECFMG - s EPIC) service. If you are successful in obtaining a role in New Zealand, you will be required to have your primary medical degree verified through EPIC.

E pā ana ki a tatou - About us

Here at the Te Whatu Ora Capital, Coast, Hutt Valley & Wairarapa districts we embrace diversity and welcome applications from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disability, and religions. A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and serve our community.

To find out more about us click on the following links:

Capital and Coast District

Hutt Valley District

Wairarapa District

Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to apply

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Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai
By joining together we will succeed
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