2025 Palliative Care Registrar

**Title**:2025 Palliative Care Registrar**:

- Requisition ID: 3351
- Location: Eastern Health, VIC, AU, 3128
- Job Posting Date: 28 Apr 2025

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**Palliative Care Registrar**
- Excellent Training and Education Opportunities
- Limited Term Full/Part Time (see below) I August 2025 Commencement (6 months)
- Supportive and Inclusive Environment

**Eastern Health**

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical, and general healthcare services, including maternity, palliative care, mental health, drug and alcohol, residential care, community health and state-wide specialist services to people and communities that are diverse in culture, age, socio-economic status, population, and healthcare needs.

**About the role**

These accredited positions offer excellent opportunities for Advanced Trainees to experience a range of experiences in Palliative Medicine in community, inpatient/hospital-based consultation and outpatient settings.

Supervision and education by our Palliative Care Consultants and skilled nursing and allied health teams will contribute to a beneficial learning experience for those employed. Skills in clinical medicine and research, as well as mentorship and opportunities in non-clinical, professional development will be promoted.

The Consults Service registrar (full time) has responsibility for the triaging, assessment and consultative management of all appropriate referrals of adult inpatients to the Hospital Based Palliative Care Consultancy Service (HBPCCT). The Trainee is required to work collaboratively with and to provide medical support to the Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Consultants (CNCs). The Trainee and supervising Palliative Care Consultant are responsible for the overall care provided by the HBPCCT.

The Community Registrar position (part time, 0.5EFT) will be based at Eastern Palliative Care (EPC) and will provide holistic, person-and-relationship centred palliative medicine support to EPC clients as a clinician of the interdisciplinary team and under the supervision of EPC Palliative Care Consultant(s).

The Consults and Community Registrar role may involve providing supervised specialist palliative care reviews in an outpatient palliative care clinic, telehealth consultations and potentially home visits (Community Registrar).

The Trainee is expected to participate in the weekend roster at Wantirna Health (except the Community Registrar position). Palliative care registrars working across different sites and roles are expected to participate in the weekly education and respective unit meetings.

Applicants will be required to have completed the RACP Basic Physician Training OR registration in GP training program with an appropriate level of clinical experience. Applicants should be registered with Victorian Palliative Medicine Training Program

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will possess:

- Current registration with AHPRA
- Highly developed interpersonal and leadership experience
- A strong commitment to high quality care and teaching
- The ability to work as part of a diverse team
- Excellent communication and organisational skills

**What we offer**

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here
- Diverse and engaging career opportunities
- Friendly & supportive team
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options
- Career progression in our teaching hospitals

**Next Steps**

**Good to know**:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
- Advertising may end before the closing date.

Contact Person: Christa Allan

Contact Number: 03 9895 3469

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Medical Workforce Unit on (03) 9895 3469.

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