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Southwest Healthcare - Warrnambool

 

Trainee Positions

  • 2 advanced training positions
  • Position 1:
    • 6 months or 12 months
    • Job-share or job-split arrangements available 
      • Accredited for General Paediatrics with perinatal - Rural/regional
        • For those completing 12 months, this may be accredited as either 12 months General Paediatrics, or 6 months each of General Paediatrics and Community/Developmental/Psychosocial
  • Position 2:
    • Recruited as a combined role with Geelong positions for a 2 year position - the Great Ocean Road rotation, which comprises 6 months in Warnambool and 18 months at University Hospital in Geelong.  The Warnambool component with commence in either February 2026 or August 2026.

Trainee Level

  • Advanced Trainee (post FRACP exams)
  • Neonatal experience is required

Contact

Roster and on-call

  • Roster 1:3 shared with:
    • 2 Advanced Paediatric Trainees
    • 1 GP Paediatric Registrar
    • 1 Basic Paediatric Trainee
    • 2 HMOs
  • Overnight HMO onsite on week nights
  • Weekend on-call shared with consultant support

Wards

  • 10 paediatric beds
  • 6 cot level 4 SCN (800 births per year)

Junior Staff

  • 2 HMO
  • 1 GP Registrar
  • 2 Advanced Trainee Paediatric Registrars
  • 1 Basic Trainee Paediatric Registrar

Senior Staff

  • Equivalent to 4 EFT full time 

Clinics 

  • Registrar has dedicated consulting room in group practice to develop own patient load and offer continuity of follow-up
  • Multidisciplinary diabetes clinic fortnightly
  • General paediatric clinics (ward discharges and neonatal follow up)
  • MDT Behavioural and Developmental clinics with Allied Health team: Social Work, OT, Physio, Speech, and Complex Care Nurse

Education and Teaching

  • Weekly protected teaching:  Journal Club, Case Presentations, Practical Skills
  • Monthly Clinical Skills Workshops with paediatric nursing staff
  • PROMPT obstetric/SCN training involvement
  • VicFEAT webinars
  • Weekly Rural Child Health online modules
  • Teaching opportunities with HMO's, nursing staff, ED, and Deakin Medical students

Pay

  • In accordance with current Award (EBA)
  • Includes on-call allowance, telephone advice allowance, callbacks and overtime

Accommodation

  • Fully furnished accommodation  provided
  • Family accommodation available on request. 
  • Hospital accommodation is pet-free.

    Warrnambool offers a broad and rewarding general paediatric experience in a highly supportive rural setting.  It is ideal for trainees completing core general paediatrics, and those seeking a flexible, tailored training experience.  It is an excellent position to provide opportunities to develop the competencies and confidence needed to provide comprehensive medical care in paediatrics. There is sufficient leisure time to become involved with activities in the local community, from the performing arts/music to sports, surfing, sailing, fishing, waterskiing and bushwalking.