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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 Pediatrics 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 paediatric 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.
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RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.
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The Department
The Department of General Medicine is one of the largest departments at the RCH, and includes sub-specialty units of Infectious Diseases, Rheumatology, Immigrant Health and Clinical Pharmacology, as well as providing leadership and staffing to the 24 bed Short Stay Unit. The department provides an inpatient service managed by 23 consultants attached to 4 medical teams, seeing over 6500 admissions per year, in addition to providing outpatient services including General Medicine, Continence, Upper Airways, Emergency Review, Chronic Fatigue and sub-specialty clinics.
The Role
Various, Full and part time fixed term General Medicine Fellow positions are available from 5th August 2024 - 2nd February 2025.
This role provides the advanced trainee/ Fellow of the RACP (Paediatrics) with the opportunity to work as a Junior Consultant, in a supervised capacity, including excellent opportunities to gain clinical, teaching, research and administration experience. The Fellow will also take on the role of Night Medical Lead for the hospital, which is responsible for supervising junior trainees in managing their workload, including admitting and discharging patients, and will collaborate with the after-hours team across the hospital to manage clinical resources to meet the demands of increasing patient acuity across General Medicine and Specialty Units and patient flow after hours.
We are happy to consider requests for applicants ideal eft for the role/s, please include this in the cover letter.
Successful applicants will be required to undergo a police and Working with Children's Check. In addition, all international Medical applicants will need to have passed IELTS test (results must indicate a score of 7 or above in all bands) in order to be successful.
Qualifications
- MBBS
- Registration with AHPRA and eligibility for medical registration within Victoria
- Advanced Trainees in Paediatrics with exams completed
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Closing date for applications is 26 March 2024
Please note that the successful applicant must undergo a police and working with children check.
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 fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and 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
