2026 Intensive Care Registrar

Requisition No: 4174
- Executive Division: Operations
- Division: Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Services
- Program: EMIC Management
- Department: ICU Medical
- Enterprise Agreement: Doctors in Training (Victorian Public Health Secto
- Job Function: Medical
- Project:
ICU Registrar Position
- Location: Sunshine/Footscray
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Salary: Classification HM25 - HM30

About the role

Western Health comprises four public hospitals with adult Intensive Care Units based at Sunshine and Footscray Hospitals. Sunshine ICU is a 25-minute drive from Melbourne CBD and Footscray ICU is a 20-minute drive from Melbourne CBD.

We provide specialised care to a young patient population with notably high severity of illness scores compared with other metropolitan ICUs. Sunshine ICU has 13 bedspaces admitting approximately 1100 critically ill adults per year. Footscray ICU has 14 bedspaces and currently admits approximately 850 critically ill adults per year. Each site is currently funded to 12 ICU equivalents (24 total across Western Health ICUs). The new 1.5 billion-dollar Footscray Hospital (with new ICU) is currently in the final stages of construction and is planned to open in late 2025.

We admit medical patients together with both elective and emergency surgical patients supporting our specialised surgical services which include Thoracic and Upper GI surgery. We are proud to have an established multidisciplinary Cardiogenic Shock Service including the provision of Mechanical Cardiac Support in the form of Impella. We also admit a significant number of complex critically unwell obstetric patients at Sunshine ICU supporting our colleagues at the co-located Joan Kirner Women’s & Children’s Hospital.

Both sites are accredited by the CICM for General Training, as well as by ACEM, RACP and ANZCA.

Why do registrars enjoy training at Western Health?

ICU Registrars at Western Health gain a wide range of experience in adult intensive care medicine in a supportive and collaborative environment. Individual professional development is supported by an engaged medical and nursing group, a proactive team of Supervisors of Training, and a mentorship programme. ICU registrars enjoy the individualised approach to the balance of autonomy with support to improve their clinical, communication and procedural skills in our ICUs. In addition to registrars, there is at least one HMO rostered to each ICU at all times.

What do we offer our ICU trainees at Western Health?

Individualised Opportunities:

- One Transition Year Fellow appointment (at Sunshine ICU) to an eligible CICM trainee.
- Senior Registrar roles for suitable CICM trainees.
- Part time training is also available.

CICM Accredited Rotations in:

- Anaesthesia
- Adult Internal Medicine
- Paediatric Ward Medicine
- Paediatric & Adult Emergency Medicine
- Rural Medicine

A customized registrar teaching program run by our team of Intensivists comprising:

- Protected weekly teaching program covering ALS, Airway skills, teamwork, and communication, together with the core ICU Curriculum
- Sim based teaching within the state-of-the-art simulation centre at Sunshine Hospital
- Dedicated consultant led primary examination teaching program.
- Scheduled BASIC course twice yearly.
- VICEN participation is routinely incorporated into the academic timetable.

Additional weekly educational activities include:

- Multidisciplinary Mortality & Morbidity Audits
- Interesting case sessions
- Journal Club
- Echocardiography teaching
- Consultant led infectious disease/ ICU meetings.
- Registrar led weekly teaching program for ICU HMOs

A number of WH ICU’s senior medical staff are current or past examiners for the CICM primary or fellowship exams.

Research Opportunities

We are a member of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group, with dedicated research coordinators and a research program including large ANZICS trials as well as local studies. Registrars are encouraged to participate in research, and the opportunity exists to complete your formal project under the supervision of experienced and enthusiastic Intensivists at Western Health.

Key responsibilities:

- Participate in on-going assessment of competencies via college assessment forms.
- Perform unit duties as delegated by the Unit Head or Receiving Consultant in accordance with Western Health policies and procedures and relevant legislation.
- Ensure notification to the appropriate consultant of patients referred to the Department, and provision of initial assessment of referred patients
- Ensure quality patient care via clinical assessment, admissions, and development of management plans
- Accurately reflect the patient’s requirements, outcomes, or events within prescribed Western Health documentation, ensuring all legal requirements are met in regards to legibility of content and identity of reporter in accordance with Western Health policies and procedures.
- Participate in the development of discharge plans that