2026 Emergency Registrar

As a Registrar at Mercy Health, you'll manage administrative tasks related to patient admissions, transfers, and discharges, ensuring accurate documentation and compliance with regulatory requirements. Your role involves coordinating with healthcare professionals, maintaining patient records, and providing administrative support to facilitate smooth operations and optimal patient care within healthcare facilities.

**Employment Type**: Fixed Term - Full Time / Part-Time (1 year)/Ongoing

**Hours**: Day/Night/Weekend shift / 43 hours per week

**Salary**: from Registrar Year 1 (HM25) $2481.70 per week to Registrar Year 6 (HM 30) $3415.81 per week

**Location**: Werribee Mercy Hospital

**Upload with Application**: Please upload resume and cover letter

**Contact**:Dr Manny Bautista, Emergency Physician

**Where there’s life, there’s Mercy.**

**Where there’s care, there’s You.**

Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be?

For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people when they need it most. Our people feel great pride in this, and they value the security and stability we offer. But it also means so much opportunity - to build on all that’s gone before, to grow your impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere.

As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you’ll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere.

**At Mercy Health, it’s all about taking what we have and making it better.**

**To do that, we need you.**

**Join us as at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.**

**About the opportunity**

We are looking for positive, enthusiastic, team-oriented Emergency Medicine Registrars to join our department. The role has the responsibility for assessing and managing patients presenting to the emergency department including assisting more junior medical staff in managing their patients. We are recruiting Australian Residents/ International Medical Graduates holding a current valid working visa and AHPRA Registration for our February 2025 intake.

Our ED sees a varied case mix of approximately 55, 000 patients per year with a 5% growth rate, including 20-25%% paediatrics.

Planning and early works are well underway for the building of a new emergency department, set to open in 2026. The expanded emergency department will be able to treat an extra 25,000 patients each year with an effective doubling of our treatment spaces. With the ability to better care for the rapidly growing population in our catchment area will come many exciting career opportunities for those who join our team.

Our ED is ACEM accredited for 24 months advanced training in emergency medicine and we are known for our great team culture. As a registrar, you will be well supported by Emergency Physicians, with an active fellowship teaching and exam preparation programme and there is plenty of scope for teaching junior doctors and medical students. Registrars are specifically rostered to the weekly teaching session to avoid clinical demands interfering with attendance. We have further education support and the opportunity to complete the Emergency Medicine Certificate and Emergency Medicine Diploma at our hospital.

Opportunities exist for 3-month ACEM accredited Anaesthetic rotations, and also 6 month ACEM accredited ICU rotations. Our mixed ED is also accredited for the paediatric log book and we have 2 Paediatric Emergency Medicine Physicians on staff.

Whilst this is a training position and suitable ACEM trainees will be prioritised, we strongly encourage non trainees to apply.

**ABOUT YOU**:

- Registration as a Medical Practitioner with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- _High standards of practice with a strong commitment to consumer and carer focused service_
- Ability to work flexibly within the Public Emergency Health Services system
- Prior experience working in the Public Emergency Health Services system will be of benefit

**What you’ll bring**

You’re resilient, compassionate and have a whole lot of heart. Most importantly, you are committed to delivering exceptional patient-centred care.

To thrive in this role, you will have:

- Excellent clinical, time management, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to adapt and problem solve.
- A compassionate, flexible and positive approach to effective patient care and management.
- The ability to nurture friendly, respectful relationships and contribute to a collaborative team environment.

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

- A current Police Record Check and Working with Children Check.
- Proof of current influenza vaccination and other vaccination status consistent with public health orders.

**Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?**