Austin Health Emergency Registrar and Hmo S 2026 Clinical Year

Austin Health's Emergency Department is now recruiting for Registrar and HMO positions for the 2026 clinical year with full time and part time positions available.
- Registrar

Austin Emergency Department is one of Melbourne’s busiest, seeing around 90,000 patients annually.

We have built one of Melbourne’s biggest and most effective Short Stay Units where opportunities arise to practice and learn clinical medicine in a more controlled environment. Our Fast Track area is staffed by Advanced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapists, Nurse Practitioners as well as Doctors and provides ample opportunities to develop procedural skills. The Emergency Department is separated geographically into Adults and Paediatrics.

Our Emergency Department values the wellbeing and health of its staff and has a wellness committee (TeamED), the ED Social Club and a departmental peer support program (WEEPS) available for all staff to participate in as they wish.

**Details of positions**

**Registrars**

We have access to a wide range of rotations for our Doctors. For Registrars, we offer the standard rotations as well as exclusive Special Skills Terms (see below). Whilst employed in the Emergency Department, registrars will usually work a rotating roster including day, evening and night duty. The roster will involve weekend and Public Holiday duty. There is no on-call component, although this may occur whilst on rotation to other departments. There are ample opportunities to work shifts in the dedicated paediatric area to work towards completion of the paediatric logbook.

We have experience arranging terms at other hospitals such as The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear hospital, The Royal Children’s Hospital, The Alfred, The Royal Melbourne, Northern Health and Cabrini. We also have relationships with other health services to arrange a variety of other terms e.g. Alice Springs (ED and retrieval).

The Austin Emergency Department has a strong focus on Toxicology, Research and Quality and there are always projects running concurrently. It is one of very few EDs in Australia with a dedicated Professor/Director of EM research.

Doctors in Training are strongly encouraged to participate in current research or to start a project of their own including those to satisfy the research component of 4.10 projects. Registrars have opportunities to access non-clinical time to participate in committees or working with FACEMs in various administrative areas.We value and support our registrars by having registrar representatives participate in the fortnightly Emergency Physician meetings and roster Emergency Physicians from 0800 to 2300 daily and on-call 2300 to 0800 to provide clinical support.

Registrars will be expected to assess and manage patients according to their level of experience. They are also expected to develop and implement an understanding of the needs and processes of ED resource management appropriate to their level of experience; including bed access, bypass avoidance strategies and interdepartmental liaison.

Registrars will also be expected to supervise and educate junior staff in patient assessment and management where appropriate. Registrars may at times be called to treat patients in the Mercy Hospital in emergency situations where the condition of the patient falls outside the clinical skills of Mercy.

**HMO**

HMOs will be expected to assess and manage patients according to their level of experience. They are also expected to develop and implement an understanding of the needs and processes of ED resource management appropriate to their level of experience; including bed access, bypass avoidance strategies and interdepartmental liaison.

Our department has a team of Emergency Physicians dedicated to Junior Medical Staff Education. For HMOs, there are weekly Emergency Medicine tutorials and hands-on skills sessions in addition to the education offered at a hospital-level. HMOs are most welcome to attend the weekly Registrar teaching.There is Emergency Physician presence 0800 to 2300 daily and on-call 2300 to 0800.

Work with us Your reward is to work in a collaborative environment which will provide you with opportunities for ongoing training and development
- Registrar