Palliative Care Registrar

The Hospital
The Royal Children's Hospital's (RCH) Vision is "A world where all kids thrive".

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children's Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children's Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards .

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

For further Information on RCH is available here .

Paediatric Palliative Care Registrar (HM25-HM30)

• Excellent employee benefits including salary packaging
• Friendly and dynamic team
• Work for Australia's leading Children's Hospital

About The Role
This is a Fixed Term Full Time position for 6 months at 86 hours per fortnight within the Victorian Paediatric Palliative Care Program.

Together with a skilled multidisciplinary team, you will be responsible for ensuring the best possible palliative care is provided to children with a range of life-limiting conditions. This includes symptom management, liaison with community and hospital-based supports, assistance with decision-making and the psychosocial support of families. You will also be involved in providing education, developing clinical resources and contributing to research and quality initiatives.

Classification for this position will range from HM25- HM30(base salary $129,048.40 to $177,622.12 per annum, plus superannuation).

What You'll Achieve

• Deliver sensitive and skilled provision of clinical care to children requiring palliative care, and their families
• Establish excellent professional relationships with key stakeholders, including the multidisciplinary paediatric palliative care team, acute and community health care providers
• Actively contribute to departmental meetings and training activities
• Participate in education and research opportunities.

Your Skills And Experience

• Full registration as a medical practitioner with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Successful completion of the FRACP Written and Clinical Examination (or equivalent)
• Experience working in general or subspecialty paediatric medicine, or palliative medicine
• Demonstrated commitment to work and contribute as part of a team.

If this sounds like you, click here to view the position description.

About The Department
The Victorian Paediatric Palliative Care Program (VPPCP) is an alliance between The Royal Children's Hospital, Monash Health and Very Special Kids, managed by and under the auspices of the RCH. The VPPCP team is comprised of medical, nursing, and allied health staff. The Program uses a multi-disciplinary consultation-liaison model of care that provides consultation and capacity-building to health professionals across Victoria in the acute paediatric and community palliative care sectors, to provide the best possible palliative care to children and their families regardless of location or diagnosis.

What We Offer

• Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay
• Ability to join Fitness Passport - Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities
• Professional development and special events

Other Requirements

• Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
• Valid Working with Children Check
• Compliance with RCHs "Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases" procedure

For more information about this position please contact
Dr Bronwyn Sacks, Director Victorian Paediatric Palliative Care Program Ph: Email:

Why work at the RCH?
RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children's Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children's Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption.

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Applications close
22 September 2025