Position Details


Reference Number 161859
Position Title Psychiatry Registrar
Employment Status Temporary Full Time
Program Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Services
Location All Sites
Salary $0.00
Hours Per Fortnight 86
Position Summary
  • Gain exposure in a high pressure environment whilst exploring your potential
  • Enhance your career whilst enjoying a flexible and healthy work life balance
  • Ongoing training and professional development in a supported work environment

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.

Barwon health is the major regional health provider for the Barwon South West region. It is Victoria’s largest regional health service with one of the busiest hospitals in the state, University Hospital. We serve over 500,000 people through the efforts of over 7,000 staff and more than 1000 volunteers. We provide care at all stages or life and circumstance through a wide range of services from emergency and acute to mental health, primary care, community services, aged care, and subacute/rehabilitation. Care is provided to the community through over 21 key locations throughout the region.

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

About the role

As a Hospital Medical Officer you will provide effective supervised day to day clinical management of both ambulatory and admitted patients/resident/clients within Barwon Health whilst fulfilling Medical Board of Australia pre-registration training requirements.

It is essential that you provide:

  • Highest quality patient centred care
  • Ability to work well within a team
  • Manage information accordingly
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Practice in accordance with all policies and procedures

Become part of our passionate, committed and highly competent workforce. Apply today!

About the culture

You will have the opportunity to be part of a highly skilled, professional, friendly and dedicated organisation that takes 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

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.

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: Currently registered or eligible for general registration with AHPRA.
Desirable: MBBS or equivalent and completion of at least one postgraduate year
Desirable: Demonstrate excellent clinical skills and judgment
Desirable: Demonstrate high level teamwork, time management and problem solving skills in the clinical setting
Desirable: Demonstrate commitment to quality improvement, supervision of junior medical staff and medical students, patient safety and risk management
Desirable: Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills
Desirable: Preparedness to participate in overtime and on-call work as required
Desirable: A fast active work pace and capacity that at times can handle large volumes of work
Desirable: Ability to deliver committed, high quality clinical care.
Desirable: Adaptability and flexibility to meet changing situations
Desirable: Ability to read situations and people
Desirable: Balanced and sensitive to the style of others
Desirable: Demonstrated sound theoretical knowledge, practical skills and ethical behaviour required of medical practitioners
Desirable: Registration as a trainee with RANZCP
Desirable: Able to undertake secondments to other hospitals in our training network where required, including rural hospitals
Contact Person Karen Hamon 
Contact Person Job Title Manager Medical Workforce Unit 
Contact Number 0400 592 542 
Alternate Contact Person Tania Curtis 
Alternate Contact Number (03) 4215 2510 
Closing Date 07/04/2020
Position Description
File name 
Mental Health Register PD Registrar 2020.docx 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.