AddressApplications are invited for eligible final year medical students to join our team to complete their Internship at Mercy Health (Werribee Campus).
These are twelve (12) month positions commencing on 6th January 2025, starting with one week of Orientation. The year is broken into five terms of roughly equal duration, with a two-week period of annual leave occurring during the course of the year and 3 weeks at the end of the clinical year.
Interns spend at least one term in each of their allocated rotations and must complete rotations in Domains A, B, C & D as per current AMC Framework and AHPRA requirements for General Registration. The remaining term may be in any of a wide variety of rotations accredited for interns at Mercy Health by the PMCV.
Rotations on offer at Mercy are;
- Intensive Care
- Emergency Medicine
- Surgical
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Paediatrics
- Psychiatry
- General Medicine
- Palliative Care
- Geriatrics
(NB: Intern positions are offered through the PMCV Computer Matching Service. Please refer to the PMCV Website https://allocations.pmcv.com.au for eligibility criteria and information deadlines).
Please ensure that your submitted application consists of a cover letter, curriculum vitae and at least 2 referees.
Applicants not eligible for the PMCV Matching Process will not be considered as part of the Recruitment and Selection process.
About You:
- Final year medical student, eligible for provisional registration as a medical practitioner in 2024
- Equipped with excellent communication skills and promote the Mercy Values of Compassion, Hospitality, Respect, Innovation, Stewardship and Teamwork.
- Enthusiastic and motivated to make a real contribution to the provision of high-quality care to an ethnically diverse, rapidly growing community
About Us:
Werribee Mercy Hospital is a General Public Hospital located in the rapidly growing Western suburbs of Melbourne. Our services include surgical, medical, maternity, newborn, renal dialysis, emergency, mental health, rehabilitation, aged and palliative care. The hospital has recently undergone significant expansion with the opening or our new intensive care unit, additional operating theatres and the opening of two new wards, taking the total number of beds to 298. Join us now and be part of our team as we expand to serve our community.
Mercy Health is a Catholic organisation grounded in a 2,000-year tradition of caring for others. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Health is made up of more than 9,500 people who provide acute and subacute hospital care, aged care, mental health programs, maternity and specialist women's health services, early parenting services, home care services and health worker training and development.
Mercy Health is proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the WGEA.
What we offer:
Mercy Health recognises that many people want to work somewhere that is more than ‘just a job.’ At Mercy Health, we pride ourselves on our values-based culture, and offer a generous range of benefits to support you to maintain a healthy work/life balance. These include:
- Salary packaging benefits
- Opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Health and Wellbeing programs
- Camp Australia School Holiday Program
- Career progression and development opportunities
- A range of discounts available across a diverse portfolio of financial, healthcare, travel and other services
We focus on caring for our staff members and those important to them. We support all staff to be their authentic selves at work through Whole Self @ Mercy Health - our network group for LGBTIQ staff and allies.
At Mercy Health we pride ourselves on embracing diversity and foster an inclusive culture where individual differences are respected and celebrated. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities and cultural backgrounds including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Mercy Health is committed to the safety of all children across our services. We recognise the importance of listening to the voice of children and have a zero tolerance of any form of child abuse.
To be the successful candidate you must meet the position requirements as well as provide a current Police Record Check and Working with Children Check. Mercy Health may conduct additional background checks subject to current legislation.
If you have any questions or require any adjustments to ensure a fair and equitable interview and selection process please contact us on the details below.
This year at Mercy Health, candidates will only be required to submit their application direct to PMCV via this . Mercy Health will obtain all required application data for ranking purposes from there.
