220 bed public tertiary hospital on the north coast of NSW (just across the border from QLD, south of the Gold Coast). Catchment area includes 3 smaller hospitals: Byron Bay, Mullumbimby and Murwillumbah. Departments: Emergency, General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, ENT, urology, oncology, general medicine, palliative care, mental health, intensive care and coronary care. Teaching hospital for Bond and Griffith Universities

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Powell Street, Tweed Heads NSW 2485

Hospital Website: www.google.com

Contact Email for Hospital (eg JMO Management): jobs@hss.health.nsw.gov.au

 

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Rate it first! TWEED, Monday, 02 August 2010 Written by Amber Winter who used to work at this hospital  - See all my reviews  - Top 10 Reviewer Hospital: Environment Hospital: Facilities Hospital: Admin Training Opportunities Time Off Lifestyle: General Lifestyle: Social Scene Lifestyle: Facilites Lifestyle: Cost of living I worked in the emergency department at Tweed for 4 months earlier this year and I cannot rate it highly enough!!    Fantastic emergency department: very friendly and welcoming to new staff; great bosses - about 7 FACEMs and a few CMOs - all who are brilliant: really keen to teach, really welcoming. Nurses are really great (make sure you have a beer with Andy)    The department itself is a fairly good size - they have about 5 acute beds, 6 subacute, a couple of paediatric beds and a 2 bed resus. It's big enough that we got a huge variety of cases - so your walking wounded to your big traumas; but its small enough that you're on the front line (not standing behind multiple consultants/registrars etc in the resus cases!). And because it's not too big, you're not stuck in one area (like "subacute") all shift like you may be in some bigger emergency departments    Shifts are 10hrs each and tend to get divided up into runs of anywhere between 3 to 7 (average 3-5); in terms of weekends, you'll end up doing 1 every 3 or so weeks; nights tend to be runs of 2-3 shifts every few weeks. And  if you ever want to have certain days off all you have to do is ask!     The other great thing about this hospital is the location: the cheaper end of the ritzy Gold Coast. Beautiful soft sand beaches nearby (your pick of the fashionable Rainbow Bay or the laidback quiet Coolangatta); good night life. Public transport means pretty much buses only - but these run up and down the coast fairly regularly - easy access to Surfer's Paradise.  The funny thing is that the Gold Coast hospitals are actually pretty sought after by Qld doctors - but because Tweed Heads is over the border in NSW, it tends to get forgotten (for the Sydney guys who thinks its too far away)    Anyway, to sum up (and if i haven't made it clear yet) Tweed is an excellent place to work!!  Website http://www.ncahs.nsw.gov.au/hospitals/tweed/ Was this review helpful to you?     Report as inappopriate

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