2026 Paediatric Emergency Registrar

Requisition No: 3970
- Executive Division: Operations
- Division: Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Services
- Program: Emergency Services - Footscray Sunshine
- Department: Emergency Paediatrics
- Enterprise Agreement: Doctors in Training (Victorian Public Health Secto
- Job Function: Medical
- Project:
**Paediatric Emergency Registrar**
- **Location**:Sunshine
- **Employment Type**:Full-Time/Part-Time
- **Salary**:Classification HM25 - HM30

**About the role**

Sunshine Children's Emergency is an accredited training site (by the RACP and ACEM) for Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM). Our registrar positions are suitable for trainees in general paediatrics, paediatric emergency medicine and general emergency medicine.

Children's Emergency manages approximately 30,000 annual presentations by children (under 18 years of age). The ED has undergone significant redevelopment over the last 3years. A separate and specially designed area for paediatric emergency medicine. The successful applicant(s) will assess and manage paediatric patients and supervise more junior members of the medical team. The PEM registrar roster includes daytime, evening, weekend and night shifts. This position lends itself to job sharing.

Notable features of the department and position include:

- 17 paediatric emergency specialists on staff
- PEM Specialist cover 7 days/week onsite 0800-2330 and on-call
- Joan Kirner Women's and Children's inpatient and outpatient paediatric services with potential for combined appointments
- Teaching and supervision of residents and interns is a key part of the role
- Multi-modal teaching provided in person and via video-links
- Cultural & economic diversity of Melbourne's western suburb

**Key responsibilities**:

- Accurately reflect the patient's requirements, outcomes or events within prescribed Western Health documentation, ensuring all legal requirements are met in regard to legibility of content and identity of reporter in accordance with Western Health policies and procedures
- Participate in the development of discharge plans that reflects the needs of patients and their significant others and demonstrates understanding of the role of community providers. Assume responsibility for communication with community providers
- Provide supervision for the clinical activities of the junior medical staff on the unit, according to the level of experience of the individual
- Facilitate effective clinical handovers within the Paediatric ED and to external units and providers

**About you**:
To be Successful in this role you will have:

- 12 months of paediatrics or emergency medicine
- Desirable Experience
- 6 months of neonatology
- APLS course completion
- PICU or ICU experience
- Retrieval experience

Advanced trainees
- Accredited for the General Paediatric requirement for acute care
- Accredited for Paediatric Emergency Medicine training
- Accredited for TS3/TS4 level training by ACEM

Basic Trainees
- Continuing basic trainees and international medical graduates welcome to apply

Position Description

**Closing date**:20 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.

**Why join us?**

**Compensation and benefits**
- Competitive salary packages aligned with market standards.
- Health and wellbeing programs, including flexible work arrangements.
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