2025 Diabetes and Endocrinology Advanced Trainee

**Employment Type**:

- Temporary Full Time**Hours per fortnight** - 86**Job Category**:

- Medical - Registrar**Req Id -** 2231**2025 Diabetes and Endocrinology Advanced Trainee**
- Extend your career with one of the largest and most comprehensive regional health services in Australia
- Ongoing training and professional development in a supported work environment
- Lifestyle A stone throw from the Surf Coast, Bellarine Peninsula and Great Ocean Road

**About Barwon Health**
- Barwon Health is one of the largest and most comprehensive regional health services in Australia, providing care at all stages of life and circumstance. Services available through Barwon Health cover the full spectrum from primary care, community services, aged care, rehabilitation, mental health, emergency and acute care. We serve more than 500,000 people through the efforts of more than 9000 staff and volunteers across more than 20 sites. Barwon Health is committed to developing a vibrant culture of education, training and research that advances health and wellbeing for all.**About the facility**
- Our major sites include University Hospital Geelong in Geelong’s CBD, the McKellar Centre precinct in North Geelong, Barwon Health North in Norlane, and residential aged care facilities spanning the region. Comprehensive mental health, community health and dental services are delivered through various programs across the Barwon South West Region, including Torquay and Colac.**About the Role**
- The Diabetes & Endocrinology department provides a broad range of endocrinology training and supports two accredited registrar positions (1 RCY and 1 Core), as well as a Fellow in Endocrinology that can be accredited as an elective year. The Endocrine Unit has six inpatient beds used for the management of diabetes and endocrine emergencies including a Diabetic Foot Unit and supports a busy inpatient consultative service. Trainees attend onsite ambulatory services, outreach clinics and specialised clinics at other health services as well as attending unit educational meetings. Research activities are supported with access to the large databases of the Geelong Osteoporosis Study and Geelong Bone Density Service. The department has a strong commitment to excellence in clinical, education and research activities and a strong focus on preparing senior trainees for consultant or academic careers.-
- Our department currently employs 12 consultants who provide inpatient services to both acute and subacute facilities on a ward service arrangement and ambulatory services through the Diabetes Referral Centre and General Endocrinology Clinic.- The unit provides exposure to:
- Diabetes management in adults
- Pre-conception planning and Diabetes in Pregnancy
- Thyroid disorders
- Metabolic bone disease
- Adrenal disorders
- Other endocrine disorders
- The unit participates in a monthly Multidisciplinary Thyroid Cancer Meeting, twice-weekly clinical teaching, fortnightly Unit Radiology Meeting and monthly journal club with links to the Monash Diabetes Education Meeting and Melbourne inter hospital journal club. Opportunities also exist to attend quarterly Paediatric Endocrinology clinics and Fertility clinic.- Research opportunities exist for projects drawing data from the Geelong Osteoporosis Study, a population-based cohort study that has been running for 30 years and interrogation of the Geelong Bone Density databases.- Applicants must have completed the FRACP Part 1 examination or equivalent and have at least 2 years of Advanced Endocrinology training.- If you have the qualifications and aptitude along with excellent interpersonal skills and the commitment to improving patient care, this may be the role for you**About the culture**
- You will have the opportunity to be part of a highly skilled, professsional, friendly and dedicated workforce who take pride in providing high-quality service. You will have support and guidance from fellow team members and management who exhibit our Barwon Health values; respect, compassion, commitment, accountability and innovation. We are all dedicated to supporting the organisation in achieving our visition of - By 2050 everyone in our community enjoys the best health and wellbeing in Victoria.**Barwon Health staff benefits**
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development
- Access to employee wellness program
- Salary packaging
- Social club
- Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
- About Geelong - Derived from the local Wathaurong Aboriginal name for the region Djilang, Geelong is thought to mean ‘Tongue of Land’.- Geelong offers a range of lifestyle choices including inner city, coastal, suburban and rural homes
- Geelong is home to world class schools and education providers
- Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
- Appreciate our vast and abundant parklands, sports and entertainment attractions, and thriving dining and shopping compl