2025 Senior Registrar

About Northern Health:

As an organisation we have a clear focus on how we service and partner with our community, including our strategy of helping the community stay well when at home. Our reputation of community minded, inclusive and progressive is matched to none. 

Northern Health is located in the rapidly growing northern suburbs with projected growth the biggest in the state. With a booming, culturally rich and diverse community, and less than an hour’s drive from the CBD, Melbourne’s North is fast becoming the place to be

The Role:

As the leading public health service in the Northern Region, we are recruiting for Senior Registrars - Obstetrics and Gynaecology for the 2025 clinical year.

Accredited senior registrar positions (including Chief Registrar, Quality registrar and Simulation/Teaching registrar) for 2025 are structured to:

• Provide opportunities to maintain and develop complex obstetric management skills, including birthing unit management, complex operative obstetrics and supervision/teaching of junior trainees and HMOs.
• Consolidate Gynaecological training with exposure to training in open, minimally invasive & vaginal surgery.
• Develop and demonstrate skills relevant to audit, leadership, and administration relevant to a busy O&G service.
• Develop specific skills relevant to intended future scope of specialist practice post-FRANZCOG. 

The senior registrar positions each have a combination of:

• Service commitment to the birthing services, including antenatal clinic, acute birthing, and inpatient obstetric care (including rostered after-hours; nights and weekends).
• Service commitment to acute Gynaecological services, including acute presentations to the emergency department, inpatient care, and gynaecological outpatient services.
• Participation in quality assurance, audit, and teaching programs.

Senior registrars can rotate through one or more of the following service areas, each of which will have a program modelled on the Advanced Training Modules (ATM)

1. Generalist Obstetric ATM – Advanced training in complex obstetric management skills - including birthing unit management and complex operative obstetrics. Multidisciplinary co-ordination with the ultrasound department and MFM
2. Generalist Gynaecology ATM - Advanced training in open, minimally invasive & vaginal surgery.
3. Hysteroscopy and laparoscopic surgery ATM - Endoscopic surgery with AGES specialists. 
4. Colposcopy Special Interest ATM: Independent (supervised) colposcopy training for SR intending to become C-QuIP certified.

A Chief Registrar will be selected from amongst the successful senior registrars. The role of the Chief Registrar (in addition to his/her clinical duties) is to provide leadership to the Junior Medical Staff and assist in:

1. Junior medical staff rostering.
2. JMS representation at the senior medical staff meetings.
3. Ideally suited to a trainee in their final year, the Chief registrar role allows scope for independent operating and consolidation of consultant level skills.
4. The dissemination of information to Junior medical workforce.

The role of the Simulation/Teaching registrar will include:

1. The coordination of Registrar and HMO education sessions.
2. Coordination of simulation training (Obstetric/ED simulation training, PROMPT, FSEP, ROBUST, Laparoscopic training, US training).
3. Coordinating interview practice sessions for FRANZCOG applicants for the following year.

The role of the Quality registrar will include:

1. Participation in Obstetrics and Gynaecology unit quality activities such as in-depth case reviews and Route Cause Analysis (RCA).
2. Participation in the development and review of clinical management protocols and guidelines.
3. Responsible for preparing and presenting the Gynaecology Unit Morbidity and Mortality Meeting, Gynaecology CUSP (Comprehensive Unit Safety and quality Programme) meetings and co-ordinating the Gynaecology Pre-Operative meetings.
4. Responsible for preparing and presenting the Obstetric CUSP meetings.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Experience and good working knowledge of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Proven ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Good communication skills

Next Steps . . .

If this opportunity sounds like the next step in your career, then we would love to hear from you. Please click on the 'Apply' button and follow the prompts.

Please ensure you have registered for the VIC Senior Registrar match via RANZCOG. For further details, please refer to the Position Description. Alternatively, you can contact Dr Leah Brown, ITP Coordinator and Leah.Brown@nh.org.au

Applications close 30 June 2024

Why work at the Northern Health?

We offer a range of benefits to support and reward staff both personally and professionally, which includes:

• Health and Wellbeing programs, including our ‘Thrive’ program
• Flexibility in the workplace and extra leave options and support
• An inclusive and culturally safe space
• State of the art facilities and campus partnerships
• A commitment to ongoing professional development through our ‘Learning Labs’
• Access to salary packaging, EAP and our online library

For a glimpse of life at NH, click here.

Work with us Northern Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, as well as applicants who are LGBTIQ+, who have different abilities, or are from culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds are encouraged.

All employees of Northern Health must comply with the health service’s Staff Health / Workforce Immunisation procedure (as amended from time to time) together with any relevant State Government and Departmental directives. This requires all employees to be vaccinated for various diseases such as, but not limited to influenza and Covid-19.