2024 General Medicine Registrar

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 60908

About Monash Health

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 General Medicine:
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. Registrars will be responsible for direct acute and ongoing clinical care. 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.

About the Role

The Unaccredited General Medical Registrar reports to the Head of Unit at each site. The role of the Unaccredited General Medical Registrar (UGMR) is one of provision of timely, compassionate and clinically competent care to inpatients, supervision of junior staff, and communication within the multidisciplinary team. The team requires leadership and coordination to function well and to provide good care. This role allows the UGMR to run the Unit in partnership with the consultant and nurse manager. The Unaccredited General Medical Registrar may be asked to rotate through General Medicine units during the 12-month appointment including a period of time on night duty.

The Unaccredited General Medical Registrar may be asked to contribute to the development of innovative service models in acute medical care provision in order for the service to provide care across a range of clinical areas and in response to clinical demands.The Unaccredited General Medical Registrar will have the opportunity to develop skills relevant to 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 supervisors and managers, to manage their own professional development in General Medicine and associated areas in preparation for their future career development.

About You

What you need:

- Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Appropriate health professional tertiary qualifications and have the appropriate level of clinical knowledge and skills to undertake the role of Registrar
- 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

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

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.