2026 Anaesthetic Provisional Fellow

Requisition No: 3941
- Executive Division: Medical Services
- Division: Surgery Endoscopy Anaesthesia Services
- Program: Anaesthesia
- Department: Anaesthesia, Pain & Perioperative Medicine
- Enterprise Agreement: Doctors in Training (Victorian Public Health Secto
- Job Function: Medical
- Project:
**About the role**

The Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at Western Health provides services for more than 30,000 Surgical procedures and more than 6,500 deliveries a year. With the exception of Cardiac, all surgical specialities are represented. In addition, the Anaesthetic Department runs a busy acute and chronic pain service, teaching program and is actively involved in ongoing research and audit.

The Department employs 36 Registrars at any one time - rotating through the North Western and Southern Rotational Programs and Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine Training Schemes.

The Department has eleven (11) training positions available for provisional fellows and/or anaesthesia trainees not affiliated with a Victorian rotational training program. We employ 4 provisional fellows and 8 advanced anaesthetic registrars with a minimum of 24 months accredited experience in anaesthesia in Australia or Overseas. PFYs are employed for either a full year or a six-month term and for some streams a full year commitment is preferred.

Aside from general fellowships we offer streams including:

- Principle & Welfare Fellowship
- Obstetric Fellowship
- Perioperative Fellowship
- Safety & Quality Fellowship
- Sustainability & Environment Fellowship

**Key responsibilities**:

- Participate in on-going assessment of competencies via college assessment forms.
- Quality peri-operative care under the supervision of an appropriate specialist. This includes preoperative assessment and preparation, peri-operative planning, anaesthesia, intra and postoperative medical care and pain management.
- Perform anaesthetic, pain management and critical care duties as delegated or allocated by Director or delegated Consultant in accordance with Western Health policies and procedures and relevant legislation.
- Assume responsibility for patient care in accordance with the care model of the ward/unit, ensuring that required clinical procedures are performed with appropriate training and supervision.

**About you**:
To be Successful in this Role you:

- Hold a MBBS or equivalent primary medical qualification
- Have current medical registration with AHPRA or the ability to gain such registration
- before commencement of the clinical placement
- Have completed at least two years of anaesthetic training

These positions are fixed term full time.

For more information, please refer to the position description and/or contact us below.

**Position Description**

**Applications close 11:59pm on 2 June 2025.**

**About Western Health**

Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne’s western suburbs.

With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centred care across every life stage.

We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include

oncology, renal, mental health, women’s health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.

We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia’s most culturally and socioeconomically diverse and vulnerable populations provides us with unique insights into the most pressing health challenges. We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions.

Western Health operates four acute public hospitals: Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s), Footscray Hospital, Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Community Hospital, Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre, Melton Health and Community Services, Bacchus Marsh Community Health Centre, Caroline Springs Community Health Centre and Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care in Bacchus Marsh. Western Health also provides the primary healthcare service at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women’s prison located in Ravenhall.