2026 Unaccredited General Surgery Registrar

**Overview**:
**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**:3310

**Are you a current Austin Health employee?**
- 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 Austin Northern Training Hub (General Surgery)**
- The Austin Northern Training Hub is a conjoint training hub for General Surgery comprising of equal partnership between Austin Health and Northern Health with external rotations to regional Victoria, and Tasmania.

**About the role**
- An exciting opportunity currently exists for enthusiastic **Non Accredited General Surgery Registrar** to join **Austin Health, in joint partnership with Northern Health** in **2026.**

The unaccredited registrar positions in General Surgery at Austin Northern Training Hub (ANTH) are designed to fulfil the dual role of service provision for the health services and training position as a lead up to entry to SET training in General and other subspecialty surgery. The service provision role includes Night Surgical cover for both the Austin Health and Northern Health and surgical relief for General Surgery SET and Non SET trainees. This is combined with a six month rotation in General Surgery which provides a training opportunity as well as allow completion of the minimum requirements for entry to SET.

All Non-Accredited registrars will be allocated one six-month rotation in General Surgery as well as either a six-month term in surgical relief or three months each of Night Surgical cover and Surgical Relief.
- General Surgery: Six month terms at designated Non Accredited registrar positions. Sometimes there may be opportunities to fill empty SET positions for six months.
- Night Surgical Cover/Research role
- SET Relief registrar: Austin Health SET rotations include positions at the Austin Health, Northern Health, Bendigo, Echuca, Mildura, Sale, and Tasmanian rotations (Launceston, Hobart, Burnie and Mersey Hospitals). The positions being relieved would include Non SET and SET positions in General Surgery.

The majority of Non-Accredited registrars will be rostered to three months each of Night Surgical Cover/Research and Relieving Rotations and a single 6-month term in surgical units.

**About you**
- To be successful in this role you’ll bring with you:

- Registration as a Medical Practitioner with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) - (note eligible applicants will be assisted through this process)
- Have appropriate training and experience applicable to the field of General Surgery.
- Demonstrated commitment to high quality patient care.
- Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate at all levels.
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching.
- Demonstrated capability and interest in research.
- Demonstrated understanding of Clinical Governance

**Application instructions**
- Cover letter
- Current Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- ** Application Guide and Form** (upload as Selection Criteria Response)
- Fellowship Certificate (where applicable)
- Working with Children's Check Card (where applicable)

**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:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
- Mentoring and career development opportunities.

**Work with us**

**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the**position description** for further details.**

**Application closing date: Sunday 20 July 2025**

- Applications close Sunday 20 July 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 16 June 2025