Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full Time - Fixed Term

**Salary**:$100,000 - $200,000

**Grade**:Undefined

**Occupation**: Health and Allied Health

**Location**: Parkville

**Reference**: 13304

**About the Role**
These are fixed term positions, either full time or part time in the Emergency Department. The successful applicants will join our existing consultant team to provide leadership, supervision and direct care of patients during a period of disruption in the Emergency Department due to our redevelopment capital works. The positions will be responsible for all patients who present to the Emergency Department and for meeting key performance indicators.

**Your skills and experience**
- You will possess excellent clinical skills in paediatric emergency medicine, be able to function as part of an emergency team and be committed to the development of paediatric emergency medicine within RCH and more widely.
- Have registration as a specialist medical practitioner with AHPRA and possess a fellowship of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine or the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, having undergone accredited training in paediatric emergency medicine.
- Have completed specialty training in PEM
- Proven ability to work as a senior paediatric emergency medicine clinician in a high volume high pressure emergency department, with the capacity to make sound, rapid clinical decisions to promote patient access and flow would be advantageous.

If this sounds like you, click here to view the position description.

**About the Emergency Department**
The Emergency Department is the busiest paediatric ED in the country and assesses and treats over 90,000 children a year for a range of urgent medical and surgical conditions. Senior staffing includes paediatric emergency medicine specialists and 12 fellows undergoing specific training in paediatric emergency medicine. Together they provide supervision to 30 paediatric and emergency medicine registrars and a further 6 junior doctors. The department has an active education program and plays a major role in national and international paediatric emergency medicine research.

**Other requirements**
- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
- Valid Working with Children Check
- Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

**Application process**
To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description
You must attach certified credentials and a completed “SMS Application for Appointment Form

**Why work at the RCH?**

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption

**Are you ready to join our team?**

Applications close **24 June 2025**

Applications close Tuesday 24 June 2025 at 11.59PM

Posted 27 May 2025