Position Details


Reference Number 162023
Position Title 2021 Medical Internship - Junior Medical Workforce
Employment Status Temporary Full Time
Program Chief Medical Officer
Location All Sites
Salary $0.00
Hours Per Fortnight 3268
Position Summary
  • Gain exposure in a busy and supportive environment whilst exploring your potential
  • Build 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. We serve over 500,000 people with more than 7,000 staff and 1,200 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 

Barwon Health are currently seeking 43 motivated Medical Interns to build their career at Barwon Health. As an intern you will provide effective supervised day to day clinical management of both ambulatory and admitted patients, residents and clients within Barwon Health whilst fulfilling Medical Board of Australia pre-registration training requirements.

As the intern, it is essential you:

  • Provide high quality patient centred care
  • Work well within a team
  • Manage information appropriately
  • Demonstrate exceptional communication skills
  • Practice in accordance with the National Safety and Quality Standard

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: Can you please respond to the following question in 250 words maximum: What opportunities and experiences do you expect an internship at Barwon Health will provide you?
Essential: Can you please respond to the following question in 250 words maximum: What has been the best lesson you have learnt about time management?
Contact Person Karen Hamon 
Contact Person Job Title Manager Medical Workforce 
Contact Number 0400 592 542 
Alternate Contact Person Medical Workforce 
Alternate Contact Number (03) 4215 0891 
Alternate Contact Email InternRecruitment@barwonhealth.org.au
Closing Date 05/06/2020
Position Description
File name 
Intern Position Description 2021.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.