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Barwon Health - Geelong

Trainee Position

  • The Great Ocean Road Rotation: 24 months (two positions) 
    • Full-time
    • Accredited for a total of 12 months General Paediatrics with perinatal component (University Hospital Geelong); 6 months General Paediatrics rural training (Warrnambool Base Hospital); and 6 months Developmental and Psychosocial training.
    • Please note that commitment is for the full two year rotation and are only available as full-time positions

 

  • General Paediatric Senior Registrar: 6 months or 12 months (two positions)  
    • Full time for 12 months (2 positions) or 6 months (4 positions); or
    • Job share over 12 months (0.5 FTE each job-share partner)
    • Job share over 24 months (0.5 FTE each job-share partner)
    • Accredited for up to 12 months General Paediatrics with perinatal component (University Hospital Geelong) for advanced training.  Please note that this role is not accredited for rural training.
    • These roles participate in a rotating primarily acute inpatient roster (6 week cycle)  across general paediatric ward and neonatal unit but also incorporate regular general paediatric outpatient clinics

 

  • General Paediatric Outpatient Registrar: 6 months or 12 months (one position)
    • This position can be job-shared over 12 months or over 24 months.  
    • 6 month or 12 month positions applied to by a single applicant are for full-time roles
    • Accredited for General Paediatrics with perinatal component.  This role has a mix of general paediatric outpatient clinics and acute inpatient clinical rostering (general paediatric ward and neonatal).  Please note that this role is not accredited for rural training.
    • Please preference 12 month position of 6 month position, and if applying 6 months, please indicate whether you are applying only for one particular semester, or whether you are applying for consideration to either 1st half or 2nd half (this can be done in cover letter and by emailing vpat.recruitment@gmail.com)

 

  • General Paediatric Outpatient Fellow: 12 months to 24 months (two - three positions)
    • Part-time, 0.7 - 0.8 FTE 
    • Accredited for General Paediatrics with perinatal component (based at University Hospital Geelong).  Please note that this position is not accredited for rural training.
    • These roles are primarily focussed on general paediatric outpatient clinics.  Across the two roles this incorporates General Paediatrics, Newborn Complex Care, Wathaurong Indigenous Health and Out of Home Care clinics (please note that each job has placement in some but not all of these clinics).  There is a lesser component of acute inpatient paediatrics (general paediatrics and neonatal) in both positions
    • Successful applicants will be offered the opportunity to continue for a 24 month appointment if desired. Please preference it as a 12 month position, and then liaise directly with Barwon Health if you are allocated to this role.

 

  • Senior Fellow - Community Child Health: 12 months (one position)
    • Job-share available
    • Accredited for up to 12 months Community Child Health (University Hospital Geelong) - includes 12 months non-core training, 6 months Community-based multidisciplinary (concurrent requirement), 3 months Social Paediatrics (concurrent requirement).  
    • Weekly community clinics including out-of-home-care clinic, autism assessment clinic, First 1000 Days clinics and CAMHS placement day.  
    • Funding of position is contingent on recruitment in last year of training or first year of Fellowship with a view to establishing consultant practice in the Barwon region.  Previous advanced paediatric training in the region and/or other demonstration of commitment to longer-term practice in the region is therefore highly desirable.

 

  • PEM Community Fellow:  12 months to 18 months (one position) - part time 0.2 FTE
    • This position is specifically tailored to help meet the community child health training requirements of an advanced trainee currently completing Paediatric Emergency Medicine training.

 

  • Paediatric Emergency Registrar: 6 months (one position)
    • We are excited to be offering this position for the first time in 2025
    • 6-month placement in the new Paediatric Emergency Department at Univeristy Hospital Geelong
    • Applicants will be rostered only to paediatric emergency presentations
    • Applicants will join both the Emergency Department team and the Paediatric and Neonatal inpatient unit team educational sessions
    • This position is accredited for the Acute Care component of advanced training in General Paediatrics

 

  • Barwon Health - Deakin University PhD Clinician Scientist Pathway (one position)
    • 4 years at total of 1.0 FTE
    • From 2025 Children's Services at Barwon Health Geelong will offer an advanced trainee completing their RACP paediatric training the opportunity to undertake a PhD as part of the Barwon Health and Deakin University Clinician Scientist Pathway.
    • https://www.barwonhealth.org.au/research/for-researchers/clinician-scientist-pathway
    • The PhD will be undertaken through the Deakin University and should synergise with the applicant's clinical role
    • To support the PhD candidature the successful candidate will be appointedto a part-time (0.5 FTE) clinical advanced training position in Barwon Health Children's Services (one of the General Paediatric Outpatient Fellow roles) -  for a period of up to 4 years.
    • The position could be accredited for General Paediatrics with a Perinatal Component with the General Paediatrics ATC (subject to current College requirements)
    • The candidate will also be supported financially with a small baseline stipend (taxable)
    • Applicants wishing to be considered for the combined PhD / General Paediatric Outpatient Fellow role should preference this job (not the separate General Paediatric Outpatient Fellow role advertised above)

Trainee Level

  • Advanced Trainee (post FRACP exams) required for Great Ocean Road rotation and Senior COmmunity CHild Health Fellow positions, and highly desirable (but not essential) for General Paediatric Senior Registrar and General Paediatric Outpatient Registrar positions.

Contact

  • Dr Isaac Marshall: isaac.marshall@barwonhealth.org.au

Roster and on-call

  • Varies with position.  Please contact for further information.

Wards

  • 24 paediatric beds
  • 13 bed level 5 SCN (2,600 deliveries per year)
  • Very busy Emergency Department (18,000 paediatric presentations/year)
  • ICU staff includes two paediatric intensivists: routinely care for up to 2 admissions at any time

Junior Staff

  • 7 Residents including two paediatric trainees (one as part of Extended Rural Scheme)
  • 6 rotating registrars (paediatric), 1-2 GP registrars
  • 1 general paediatric outpatient fellow and 1 general paediatric outpatient registrar
  • 2 general paediatric fellows (part inpatient, part community)
  • 1 senior community child health fellow

Senior Staff

  • 24 consultant paediatricians based in Geelong
  • Two consultants on service for acute services each week
  • Two paediatric consultants amongst ED consultant medical staff
  • Two paediatric intensivists amongst ICU consultant medical staff
  • Three dual-trained general paediatricians/neonatologists

Clinics 

  • All outpatients have direct consultant supervision
  • Weekly General Paediatric clinics
  • Twice weekly multidisciplinary Diabetes clinics
  • Weekly Immigrant/Refugee Health clinic
  • Weekly Indigenous Health (Wathaurong) clinic
  • Weekly Hearing Impairment and First Seizure clinic
  • Cherry Creek Youth Justice Centre outreach clinic
  • Regular Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Service clinic
  • Diverse range of Community Child Health clinics through Barwon Health North (First 1000 Days; Out of Home Care; Vulnerable Infant)

Education and Teaching

  • Extensive: including fortnightly in situ (ward-based) SIM training, weekly blocked teaching afternoon, weekly academic presentations, monthly Safety and Quality meetings and access to RCH CCCH program (for community fellows)
  • Trainees are strongly encouraged to complete a research project while placed with us, utilising resources at the ready including the Child Health Research Unit at Barwon Health (CHeRUB) and Barwon Infant Study.  Three of the paediatric consultants hold PhDs and one is Director of Research at Deakin Univeristy and co-chairs the Children’s Inpatient Research Collaboration of Australia and New Zealand (CIRCAN).  There is a particular emphasis on quality improvement projects within the unit, lead by a designated paediatrician with extensive research experience.

Pay

  • As per award

Accommodation 

  • Accommodation will need to be sourced privately for these positions

    Barwon Health Children’s Services is the busiest regional paediatric unit in Victoria with an all-encompassing, truly general paediatric experience on offer.  The general paediatric ward regularly manages presentations across the breadth of paediatrics.  Our neonatal unit is one of only two in the state managing to Level 5 neonatal capability (as acute but as supported as it gets outside of NICU).  We have an expansive (and expanding) scope of paediatric outpatient and community child health clinics.  We have immediate access to world standard research through the Deakin University Child Health Research Unit that is heavily embedded in the clinical space - headed by one of our very own paediatricians and ready for you to complete your College project (or start your PhD!) with us.

    And after handover there’s ready access to all the surf- and turf-based recreation the Bellarine and Surf Coast has to offer. 

    We pride ourselves on our team culture and welcome you to join us if it fits in with your training plans and/or career aspirations.