• Excellent mentoring and support from Consultants
• Convenience of location: within an hour’s drive of Melbourne City and in the heart of the best surf beaches in Australia
• An unparalleled balance between training, work and lifestyle where your personal fulfilment equals our success

About the facility

Sitting within one of Victoria’s six regional health centres, Barwon Health serves the community of Greater Geelong and beyond. Victoria’s second largest city after Melbourne, Geelong is becoming recognised as a creative city-region, adaptive and enterprising. The local government has also placed a great emphasis on innovation, employment and economic growth in the Geelong region.

To find out more about the Geelong region, visit our Moving to the Region page on the Barwon Health website.

Barwon Health is the largest regional health service provider in Victoria. If offers an extensive range of general & specialist hospital, rehabilitation, residential & community services to over 93% of the Geelong community & an increasing number of residents across the Barwon South-Western region. Barwon Health has a total of around 1000 beds, a budget in excess of $500 million & a workforce of around 7,000.

About the role

Barwon Health has a vacancy for a Rehabilitation Registrar commencing immediately.  This could be a great opportunity for someone thinking about entering the Rehabilitation Medicine training program, or for an HMO or Registrar seeking to gain experience in this rewarding area until February 2020.

Initially the successful applicant will work in Orthorehabilitation, covering orthopaedic, amputee and general rehabilitation, and for the second half of the year will work in Neurorehabilitation, including stroke and other neuro-rehab, spinal cord injury and ABI rehab.

Within this role you will provide effective supervised day to day clinical management of both ambulatory and admitted patients, whilst fulfilling Medical Board of Victoria pre-registration training requirements.

About the culture

You will have the opportunity to be part of a highly skilled, professional, friendly and dedicated team who take pride in providing high quality service. Barwon Health’s diverse medical unit provides a supportive environment that encourages professional growth and education in our specialist areas.

Barwon Health staff benefits

• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development
• Access to employee wellness facility
• Salary packaging
• Social club
• Be our future Barwon Health Strategic Plan
• Aboriginal Employment Plan
• Our Commitment to Child Safety

• At Barwon Health we harness a diverse and inclusive workforce where we value each person’s uniqueness. We will embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, whilst providing high-quality health care to all members of our community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.
• Our organisation promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of our staff and consumers including children and have appropriate recruitment resources in place to ensure background checks and reference checks are completed.
• At Barwon Health we are committed to providing positive employment opportunities and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and welcome employment applications from candidates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background.
• We Barwon Health is proud to be Totally Smoke Free.