2024 General Medicine Advanced Trainee

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 60894

**About Monash Health**

Monash Health is Victoria's largest public health service. We are proud to provide healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne's population, across the entire lifespan from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 22,000 employees work at over 40 care locations across south-eastern Melbourne, including Monash Medical Centre, Monash Children's Hospital, Moorabbin Hospital, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, Kingston Centre, Cranbourne Centre, Victorian Heart Hospital, Sandringham Hospital Maternity services and an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities.

**About Monash Doctors**

There are more than 1,900 Junior Medical staff positions at Monash Health in over 200 medical specialties, to help grow your career. We offer unparalleled opportunities in Victoria's largest & most clinically diverse teaching health service.

**About Monash General Medicine Program**

General Medicine provides an acute general medicine service for Monash Health across its three acute care campuses. General Medicine is the largest single medical inpatient activity at Monash Health with approximately 21,000 inpatient episodes per year.

Inpatient services are supported by General Physicians at the following locations:

- General Medical Services at Monash Medical Centre are currently provided by 5 multidisciplinary teams largely across two wards. Advanced trainees will be responsible for direct acute and ongoing clinical care, as well as peri-operative and consult medicine. This is supported by both full-time staff specialists and VMOs.
- At Dandenong Hospital General Medicine admits a very diverse range of patients including a high volume of subspecialty presentations supported by full time and Visiting Medical Officer consultants in a collaborative inter-professional model of care.
- At Casey Hospital the General Medicine Unit provides acute general medical care in a high growth corridor and is supported by visiting consultants with a range of subspecialty expertise.

Specialty rotations are available in haematology, palliative care, ICU, respiratory/allergy, renal, cardiology, geriatrics as well as Perioperative Medicine and includes regional and private opportunities.

**About the Role**
The position of Advanced Trainee General Medicine Registrar at Monash Health is accredited by RACP; Monash Health is able to provide core General Medicine and selected subspecialty experience as well as rotations with high acuity. The Advanced Trainee General Medicine Registrar will have the opportunity to develop skills and contribute to clinical research projects and quality improvement and clinical audit initiatives within General Medicine. They will participate in the General Medical component of the medical undergraduate educational experience for Monash University students in third and fifth year on a day-to-day basis. The appointee will be expected, in conjunction with their Unit head, to manage their own professional development in General Medicine and associated areas including research competency in preparation for their future career development.
**About You**

As Registrar of the Unit you will have a significant responsibility and a complex role.
You will be required to undertake:

- Patient assessment and management in consultation with the treating consultant
- Participation in Medical Emergency Response Teams
- Patient care coordination In
- Intern/HMO support, supervision, feedback and teaching

**What you need**:

- Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Appropriate health professional tertiary qualifications
- Working with Children's Certificate

**What we offer**:

- Salary packaging
- Onsite discounted staff parking
- Discounted banking (BankVic)
- Onsite Gym
- Access to professional development courses and seminars
- International Relocation allowance available to contribute towards the cost of airfares, initial temporary accommodation and hotel quarantine (if required)

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.
Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed.? These include:

- reference checks
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children's Check (or proof of payment for same)
- proof of immunisation.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19?and Inf