Position Details


Reference Number 179348
Position Title Rehabilitation Registrar 2024
Employment Status Temporary Full Time
Program Community Health Rehab & Palliative Care
Location All Sites
Salary $0.00
Hours Per Fortnight 344
Position Summary

Barwon Doctors

  • Extend your career with one of the largest and most comprehensive regional health services in Australia
  • Ongoing training and professional development in a supported work environment
  • Lifestyle! A stone throw from the Surf Coast, Bellarine Peninsula and Great Ocean Road

About Barwon Health

With over 8,000 staff and more than 1,200 volunteers we provide services to our local community the G21 region which comprises the residents of the City of Greater Geelong, Colac Otway Shire, Golden Plains Shire, Borough of Queenscliff and Surf Coast Shire. Barwon Health has 1,016 beds across our sites, including 363 residential aged care beds.

  • We provide services from University Hospital Geelong, the McKellar Centre in North Geelong, Barwon Health North, Swanston Centre and Mental Health Community Hubs across the region.
  • We are one of four public radiation oncology providers in Victoria.
  • We have a public private partnership with Epworth Healthcare to help deliver surgery and day oncology
  • We are a major teaching hospital so have relationships with Deakin University, University of Melbourne and Monash University.

We have recently opened:

  • Youang Surgery Centre
  • Mental Health Hub in Emergency Department
  • Aged Acute Psychiatry Facility at McKellar
  • McKellar Paediatric Rehabilitation Centre

And we look forward to welcoming soon:

  • Adrian Costa Clinical Trials Centre: Victoria’s first regional clinical trials centre
  • Paediatric Emergency Hub in the Emergency Department at UHG
  • Barwon Health Women’s & Children’s Hospital
  • Early Parenting Centre at McKellar
  • Barwon Health Surfcoast Hospital
  • Central Geelong Mental Health, Drugs and Alcohol Community Hub

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

About the Role

Applications are invited for our Rehabilitation Registrar positions. Our friendly and supportive department currently employs 8 Rehabilitation Physicians. There are 3 x 6 month Registrar positions available:

  • Neurorehabilitation - stroke and other neurorehab, ABI, spinal cord injury
  • Musculoskeletal/General – orthorehab, amputee and general rehabilitation
  • Rehab@Home & clinics

Applicants seeking either 6 or 12 month positions will be considered.    

If you have the qualifications and aptitude along with excellent interpersonal skills and the commitment to improving patient care, this may be the role for you!

About The Culture

The Rehabilitation department at Barwon Health is a dynamic and comprehensive service, delivering sub-specialty programs within inpatient, outpatient and home based settings.  This includes neurorehabilitation, orthopaedic rehabilitation, acquired brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputee and general rehabilitation. Registrars also have the opportunity to be involved in outpatient clinics with excellent consultant support and teaching, including ABI, Spinal, Neurorehab, Cardiac Rehab, Amputee and Spasticity clinics.

The department has established a reputation for providing outstanding support to Registrars at any stage of training with formalised teaching, exam preparation and day to day clinical support.

Barwon Health staff benefits

  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Professional development
  • Access to employee wellness facility
  • Salary packaging
  • Social club

Diversity and Inclusion

At Barwon Health we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where we value each person’s uniqueness. We 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.

At Barwon Health we are committed to providing positive employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and welcome employment applications from candidates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background.

We at Barwon Health strongly encourage people with disability and diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles.

We are strongly committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Click here for further information on the Victorian Government’s Child Safe Standards: About Child Safe Standards | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au)

If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Talent Acquisition team via email at medicalrecruitment@barwonhealth.org.au noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.

We Barwon Health are proud to be Totally Smoke Free.

Applicants for this role must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and influenza and meet the requirements of the Barwon Health immunisation policy.

Applications from Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position all candidates must apply directly to Barwon Health.

Selection Criteria Essential: Can you please list Barwon Health's values?
Essential: Can you please choose one of Barwon Health's values and describe a situation in the workplace where you have displayed this value?
Essential: Are you registered or eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulatory Authority (AHPRA)?
Desirable: Do you have an intention or interest to train to become a Rehabilitation Physician?
Desirable: Do you possess postgraduate experience in an environment where rehabilitation medicine is practised?
Essential: I agree, to commence employment, I am required to meet Barwon Health’s immunisation requirements (including full Covid-19 and Influenza vaccination) set out in the Staff Immunisation Policy. I acknowledge that meeting this requirement is mandatory and a condition of employment subsequently offered.
Contact Person Dr Daniela Micheletto 
Contact Person Job Title Head of Unit Rehabilitation 
Contact Number (03) 4215 5390  
Contact Email daniela.micheletto@barwonhealth.org.au 
Closing Date 23/06/2023
Position Description
File name 
Rehabilitation Medicine Registrar Position Description 2024.pdf Open
Please note that this position will close at 11:45pm on closing date. Please ensure your application is added before then as we do not accept late applications.