2025 General Medicine Registrar - Unaccredited

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Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care to south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations, via telehealth, within local communities and in people’s homes.

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.

About Monash Doctors 

To help grow your career, there are more than 1,900 Junior and 1,700 Senior Doctors at Monash Health in over 200 medical specialties. We offer unparallel opportunities in Victoria's largest & most clinically diverse teaching health service. 

About General Medicine 

General Medicine provides an acute general medicine service for Monash Health across its three acute care campuses. General Medicine is the largest single medical inpatient activity at Monash Health with approximately 21,000 inpatient episodes per year. 

Inpatient services are supported by General Physicians at the following locations: 

• General Medical Services at Monash Medical Centre are currently provided by 5 multidisciplinary teams largely across two wards. Registrars will be responsible for direct acute and ongoing clinical care. This is supported by both full-time staff specialists and VMOs. 
• At Dandenong Hospital General Medicine admits a very diverse range of patients including a high volume of subspecialty presentations supported by full time and Visiting Medical Officer consultants in a collaborative inter-professional model of care. 
• At Casey Hospital the General Medicine Unit provides acute general medical care in a high growth corridor and is supported by visiting consultants with a range of subspecialty expertise. 

About the Role 

The Unaccredited General Medical Registrar reports to the Head of Unit at each site. The role of the Unaccredited General Medical Registrar (UGMR) is one of provision of timely, compassionate and clinically competent care to inpatients, supervision of junior staff, and communication within the multidisciplinary team. The team requires leadership and coordination to function well and to provide good care. This role allows the UGMR to run the Unit in partnership with the consultant and nurse manager. The Unaccredited General Medical Registrar may be asked to rotate through General Medicine units during the 12-month appointment including a period of time on night duty.  

The Unaccredited General Medical Registrar may be asked to contribute to the development of innovative service models in acute medical care provision in order for the service to provide care across a range of clinical areas and in response to clinical demands. The Unaccredited General Medical Registrar will have the opportunity to develop skills relevant to and contribute to clinical research projects and quality improvement and clinical audit initiatives within General Medicine. They will participate in the General Medical component of the medical undergraduate educational experience for Monash University students in third and fifth year on a day-to-day basis. 

The appointee will be expected, in conjunction with their supervisors and managers, to manage their own professional development in General Medicine and associated areas in preparation for their future career development. 

About You 

What you need: 

• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) 

• Appropriate health professional tertiary qualifications and have the appropriate level of clinical knowledge and skills to undertake the role of Registrar 

• Working with Children's Certificate 

• Current Drivers Licence  

• All candidates will require Australian working rights.  

In return we offer:  

• Salary packaging  

• Onsite discounted staff parking  

• Discounted banking (BankVic)  

• Onsite Gym  

• Access to professional development courses and seminars  

For a confidential discussion, please contact Dr Stephaine Jones, Service Director General Medicine on (03) 9994 1311 or via email at stephaine.jones@monashhealth.org OR Bronwen Akers, General Medicine Program Admin Assistant on (03) 9594 8734 or via email at bronwen.akers@monashhealth.org.

Position Description can be found here!

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values. To learn more about our organisation visit monashhealth.org.

How to Apply

Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online EHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the ‘Application Guide’ 

Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date. 

Applications close on 8th January, 2025.