Palliative Care Registrar

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Full Time - Fixed Term

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: $70 - $80

Occupation: Medical and Nursing

Reference: 1883

**_Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**
- **Palliative Care Registrar**:

- **Full time, fixed term from August 2025 until February 2026**:

- **Austin Hospital, Repatriation and Talbot campuses Competitive base + salary packaging + super**

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 state-wide. We are world-renowned for its research and specialist work in cancer, liver transplantation, spinal cord injuries, neurology, endocrinology, mental health and rehabilitation. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our purpose, which is to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About the department**:
The Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre (ONJ Centre) is committed to the wellbeing of people affected by cancer through health, education and research. The ONJ Centre is part of, and situated on, the campus of the Austin Hospital. The ONJ Centre provides comprehensive cancer treatment services, including medical oncology, clinical haematology, radiation oncology and wellness and supportive care programs, with strong links to the surgical oncology units, and one of Australia’s largest cancer clinical trials centres.

The ONJ Centre also includes Palliative Care Services, providing specialist palliative care to patients with cancer and any other life limiting illness. This includes via a 24-bed specialist inpatient Palliative Care Unit, a Palliative Care Consultancy service to the acute inpatients of the Austin Hospital, a specialist Palliative Care Clinic, a Palliative Care community inreach services (with visits to patients’ residence or residential aged care facility), and/or liaising with Community Palliative Care Service providers.

**About the role**:
The Palliative Care Registrar positions at Austin Health involve the care of inpatients in the Palliative Care Unit (PCU 8S), consultations on the Austin Hospital, Repatriation and Talbot campuses as required, and attendance at palliative care clinic.

**About you**:
To be successful in this role you must:

- Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration
- Demonstrated understanding of Clinical Governance
- Demonstrated ability to communicate at all levels
- Demonstrated commitment to high quality patient care
- Ability to manage the acute deterioration of a patient, with a view to curative treatment if appropriate (including Medical Emergency Team calls)
- Have appropriate training and experience applicable to the field of palliative care
- AHPRA registration as a Medical Practitioner
- A commitment to Austin Health values

**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
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists
- 13 days annual leave
- Paid conference and exam leave

**Work with us**

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

**Application closing date: 16 December 2024**

**Application instructions**:

- Cover letter
- Current Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Employment History Datasheet (upload as Selection Criteria Response) Fellowship Certificate (where applicable)
- Working with Children's Check Card (where applicable)