Work Type: Fixed-term - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Medicine, nursing and midwifery
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 2857
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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About the Emergency Department
Austin Emergency Department is one of Melbourne’s busiest, seeing around 90,000 patients annually. We have access to a wide range of rotations for our Doctors. For Registrars, we offer the standard rotations as well as exclusive Special Skills Terms (see below) that are available only at the Austin and boast regular hours with no night shifts. Whilst employed in the Emergency Department, registrars will usually work a rotating roster including day, evening and night duty. The roster will involve weekend and Public Holiday duty. There is no on-call component. Whilst on rotation to other Departments, there may be an on-call component in addition to rostered hours.
We have built one of Melbourne’s biggest and most effective Short Stay Units where opportunities arise to practice and learn clinical medicine in a more controlled environment. Our Fast Track area is staffed by Advanced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapists, Nurse Practitioners as well as Doctors and provides ample opportunities to develop procedural skills. The Emergency Department is separated geographically into Adults and Paediatrics; there are ample opportunities to work shifts in the dedicated paediatric area to work towards completion of the paediatric logbook.
Our department has a team of Emergency Physicians dedicated to Junior Medical Staff Education. For HMOs, there are weekly Emergency Medicine tutorials and hands-on skills sessions in addition to the education offered at a hospital-level. HMOs are most welcome to attend the weekly Registrar teaching. There is Emergency Physician presence 0800 to 2300 daily and on-call 2300 to 0800.
Our Emergency Department values the wellbeing and health of its staff and has a wellness committee called TeamED, the ED Social Club and a departmental peer support program called WEEPS available for all staff to participate in as they wish.Our Emergency Department values the wellbeing and health of its staff and has a wellness committee (TeamED), the ED Social Club and a departmental peer support program (WEEPS) available for all staff to participate in as they wish.
About the role
HMOs will be expected to assess and manage patients according to their level of experience. They are also expected to develop and implement an understanding of the needs and processes of ED resource management appropriate to their level of experience; including bed access, bypass avoidance strategies and interdepartmental liaison.
If you are applying to join the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine’s training program, please highlight this in your cover letter. You will need to apply for the HMO position, however, once you have been accepted into the program we would amend your contract to a registrar contract.
Please include the following in your application:
Our benefits
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
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We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Melanie Fitzgerald, Emergency Department Roster Coordinator on 0403 149 982 or [email protected]
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Thursday 26 February 2026