Current jobs related to Director of Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval Service - Parkville, Victoria - theroyalch


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the Role:The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is seeking a highly skilled Neonatologist to join the Paediatric Infant and Perinatal Emergency Retrieval Service (PIPER) team. As a key member of the PIPER Neonatologist group, you will provide expert care to critically ill newborns and infants, working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the RoleThe Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is seeking a skilled Neonatal Retrieval Nurse to join their team. The successful candidate will participate in patient retrievals by road, fixed wing, and rotary wing aircraft throughout Victoria and occasionally interstate or overseas.As a Neonatal Retrieval Nurse, you will be responsible for ensuring...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the RoleWe are seeking an experienced Neonatal Retrieval Nurse to join our team as a Therapeutic Transport Specialist. In this role, you will participate in patient retrievals by road, fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft throughout Victoria and occasionally interstate or overseas.Key Responsibilities:Clinical practice and delivery of care consistent...

  • Neonatologist

    1 month ago


    Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the RoleThe Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is seeking an experienced Neonatologist to join our Paediatric Infant and Perinatal Emergency Retrieval service (PIPER). As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for providing expert care to critically ill newborns and infants, working closely with our multidisciplinary team to ensure the best...

  • Neonatologist

    4 weeks ago


    Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the RoleThe Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is seeking an experienced Neonatologist to join our Paediatric Infant and Perinatal Emergency Retrieval service (PIPER). As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for providing expert care to critically ill newborns and infants, working closely with our multidisciplinary team to ensure the best...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the Role:The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is seeking a highly skilled Neonatologist to join our Paediatric Infant and Perinatal Emergency Retrieval Service (PIPER) team. As a Neonatologist Specialist, you will be responsible for providing expert care to critically ill newborns and infants, working closely with our multidisciplinary team to ensure...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the RoleThe Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is seeking a highly skilled Neonatologist to join our Paediatric Infant and Perinatal Emergency Retrieval Service (PIPER) team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for providing expert care to critically ill newborns and infants, working collaboratively with our multidisciplinary team to...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the RoleThis position involves participating in patient retrievals by road, fixed wing, and rotary wing aircraft throughout Victoria and occasionally interstate or overseas. The Retrieval Nurse will ensure that clinical practice and delivery of care is consistent with RCH and NMBA practice, providing comprehensive, safe, evidence-based practice to...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the RoleThe Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Neonatal Retrieval Nurse to join our PIPER team. As a Neonatal Retrieval Nurse, you will be responsible for participating in patient retrievals by road, fixed wing, and rotary wing aircraft throughout Victoria and occasionally interstate or overseas.The successful...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About The Royal Children's HospitalThe Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is a world-renowned institution dedicated to providing exceptional care to children and young people. As a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children's Campus, RCH partners with leading research institutions and healthcare providers to deliver innovative and compassionate...

  • Database Manager

    3 weeks ago


    Parkville, Victoria, Australia University of Melbourne Full time

    About the RoleThe University of Melbourne is seeking a highly skilled Database Manager to play a central role in the PLATIPUS project, a platform for adaptive trials in perinatal units. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating, managing, and maintaining trial databases, ensuring data integrity and security, and providing technical support...

  • Genetic Counsellor

    2 days ago


    Parkville, Victoria, Australia The Royal Women's Hospital Full time

    Role OverviewWe are seeking a skilled Genetic Counsellor to join our clinical team at The Royal Women's Hospital. This is a leave cover position that offers the opportunity to provide high-quality, timely care to patients referred to our Clinical Genetics Service.About the RoleProvide genetic counselling to patients including assessment, planning,...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About UsThe Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is a leading paediatric healthcare provider, dedicated to delivering exceptional care and services to children and young people. As a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children's Campus, we partner with renowned institutions to provide comprehensive care and research.The RoleWe are seeking a highly skilled...

  • Database Manager

    1 month ago


    Parkville, Victoria, Australia University of Melbourne Full time

    About the RoleThe University of Melbourne is seeking a highly skilled Database Manager to play a central role in the Platform for Adaptive Trials in Perinatal Units (PLATIPUS). This position involves creating, managing, and maintaining trial databases, ensuring data integrity and security, and providing technical support and training related to the database...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the Role:This is a Part Time Permanent position within the Occupational Therapy department at The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH). In addition, RCH Occupational Therapy has Part Time Temporary opportunities.Working at RCH provides a unique opportunity to work alongside children and their families during pivotal life phases. You will be responsible for...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the RoleThe Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is seeking a highly skilled Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon to join its esteemed Orthopaedics Department. As a key member of the team, you will provide surgical care for children and adolescents with orthopaedic conditions, with a particular focus on foot and ankle expertise.Key ResponsibilitiesProvide direct...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the RoleThe Royal Children's Hospital's Medical Imaging Department is seeking a highly skilled Paediatric Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Specialist to join our team in a Part Time ongoing basis (0.6 EFT). The successful applicant will be jointly responsible for provision of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine services and will participate in the...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the Role:The Royal Children's Hospital is seeking a highly skilled Paediatric Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Specialist to join our team in a Part Time ongoing basis (0.6 EFT). The successful applicant will be jointly responsible for provision of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine services and will participate in the afterhours on-call roster...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About The RoleThis is a fixed-term, part-time position at 0.4 EFT to cover parental leave within the Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Service at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.You will be responsible for assessing and treating paediatric inpatients and outpatients with communication and/or swallowing difficulties as part of the multidisciplinary...


  • Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time

    About the Role:The Royal Children's Hospital's Medical Imaging Department is seeking a dual trained Paediatric Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine specialist to join our team in a Part Time ongoing basis (0.6 EFT). The successful applicant will be jointly responsible for provision of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine services and will participate in the...

Director of Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval Service

2 months ago


Parkville, Victoria, Australia theroyalch Full time
About the Role

This is a fixed-term position for 3 years at up to 1.0 FTE within the Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval (PIPER) service.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide overall leadership for the PIPER service in line with the hospital's vision and strategy.
  • Be responsible to the Chief of Critical Care for the overall leadership, and the strategic and operational performance of PIPER, as determined by key performance indicators.
  • Ensure PIPER consistently provides the highest quality care, education, and research, while maintaining a sound and sustainable financial position, strong staff engagement and support, and effective relationships with health services across Victoria, the community, and consumers of care.
What You'll Achieve
  • Manage a multidisciplinary team, ensuring that RCH policies and procedures and statewide requirements are appropriately adhered to.
  • Set the direction of the Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval (PIPER) in clinical care, education, research, and quality in line with the hospital's strategic direction and priorities, and DoH requirements.
  • Identify, build, and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including DoH, Regional and Metropolitan hospitals, and Ambulance Victoria.
  • Lead the educational activities of PIPER to facilitate a learning environment.
  • Promote and facilitate good quality original research and quality improvement initiatives in PIPER, including building and supporting relevant internal and external research collaborations.
  • Lead PIPER in the development of the Electronic Medical Record.
  • Develop and manage the PIPER budget and establishment EFT to ensure PIPER activity is within budget.
  • Effectively manage rosters, leave, performance management, overtime, and recall.
About the Department

PIPER is a state-wide service providing retrieval of critically unwell patients from Victoria, Northern Tasmania, and Southern New South Wales. PIPER receives over 6000 emergency referrals per year. It's role and contact number are well known in every Victorian health service that cares for babies, children, and pregnant women. PIPER is accessed through a single point of entry and services three distinct patient populations – children, newborns, and high-risk pregnant women. While it is best recognised for its retrieval services, PIPER also provides an emergency consultation service, accounting for 25% of its referral activity.

What We Offer
  • Early Learning Centre childcare
  • Parkville location and close to public transport
  • Discounted on-site car parking
  • Culture of continuous improvement