2023 Oncology Registrar

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 56591

**About Monash Health**

**About Monash Doctors**

There are more than 1,500 Junior Medical staff positions at Monash Health in over 200 medical specialties, to help grow your career. We offer unparalleled opportunities in Victoria's largest & most clinically diverse teaching health service.

**About the Role**

This position would suit a trainee seeking an accredited Medical Oncology training position subsequently or an advanced trainee seeking medical oncology experience in their pursuit of training in another medical specialty.

The Registrar will cover 25 weeks of Accredited Medical Oncology Registrars Annual leave which will vary between the Moorabbin and Clayton in-patient wards, the Moorabbin CDU/outpatient clinics and the Berwick clinics. During weeks which do not involve cover, the registrar will be deployed to either cover clinics or the wards. The CDUs are supported by a HMO and the Registrar’s duties include supervision of patients attending for chemotherapy, attending to inter-current problems and managing chemotherapy related side effects. The position also involves attendance at several tumour site specific clinics. Clinical duties are rostered to a total of 43 hours per the award including five hours a week of rostered training time.

Consultation with patients of other units is required both at Moorabbin and Clayton campuses. The on-call role is largely telephone based, but there is an infrequent need for call back to attend high acuity patients at the Moorabbin campus or occasionally the Emergency Department at Clayton campus. Participation at clinical meetings will include case presentations, journal article reviews and topic presentations.

**Research interest of Unit**

Phase 1, 2 and 3 clinical trials in are based at the MHTP. Trainees are required to undertake/continue a clinical project in addition to participating in ongoing clinical trial activities. Participation includes screening patients for trial eligibility, recruiting and monitoring patients on therapy.

**What you need**:

- Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Appropriate health professional tertiary qualifications
- Working with Children's Certificate

**What we offer**:

- Salary packaging
- Onsite discounted staff parking
- Discounted banking (BankVic)
- Onsite Gym
- Access to professional development courses and seminars
- International Relocation allowance available to contribute towards the cost of airfares, initial temporary accommodation and hotel quarantine (if required)

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.