AddressAlfred Health
Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.
Suitably qualified applicants are invited to apply for the 2026 Trauma Fellow position within the Trauma Service located at Alfred Health.
This role has the key responsibility for co-ordinating the day to day work of the Unit and supervision of more junior medical staff and managing their duties. The placement is designed to provide appropriate exposure and experience to enable the doctor to attain the required skills and knowledge for that term in that discipline.
The fellow should act as an adviser and mentor to the registrar (and also resident).The fellow and registrar are expected to interchange their clinical duties to ensure that both training and patient care is optimal. The Trauma Fellow is required to hold a FRACS/FACEM/FANZCA/FCICM or equivalent. The position is for a period of 6 or 12 months. The Fellow will work with Trauma Registrars with backgrounds from General Surgery), Emergency Medicine, Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine ,HMOs and interns working for the Trauma Service.
The Trauma Fellow’s role includes rostered duty covering day, evening, weekend and overnight periods. Duties include the reception, assessment, resuscitation and ongoing management of acute trauma patients, within a multi-disciplinary setting (involving specialised emergency physicians, general surgeons and specialty surgeons, interventional radiologists and anaesthetists).
Please note that this position is open to either Surgical or Critical Care candidates.
Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.
All Alfred Health employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine and must provide evidence of their vaccination status. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.
