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Basic Physician Trainee - BPT2

Reference Number:  5748
Category:  Medical
Department:  Doctors in Training

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  • Full time, fixed term
  • Enterprise Agreement:  Doctors in Training 2022 - 2026
  • $94,2224 - $158,878 + salary packaging + super
  • Applications are invited from suitably qualified and enthusiastic medical practitioners to join our team as a Basic Physician Trainee Year-2 in the Medical Workforce for the 2027 Clinical Year (commencing February 2027). 

 

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives. 

 

About the department

Austin Health is a major training service for doctors at all stages in their career and specialises in advanced vocational training in most of these specialties, with a central academic role with most Medical Colleges. Hospital Medical Officers (HMOs) are employed in four key training streams: Critical Care, General, Medical (Physician Training) and Surgical. Each training stream offers a variety of rotations across Austin Health as well as other metropolitan, regional/rural and interstate hospitals.

 

HMOs are provided with experiences to support career development and progression towards vocation/specialty training. Austin operates an extensive network of rotations at both the pre-vocational and vocational trainee level. At the vocational level there are in excess of 450 specialty registrar positions across Austin Health covering virtually all adult specialties with the exception of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

 

About the role 

Successful trainees will be offered a wide selection of general and specialty rotations within a major teaching hospital, a smaller metro hospital (Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital campus), and a two regional hospital (Bendigo Health & Grampians Health - Horsham). Please note that a regional/rural term is an expected component of Central North West Consortium BPT2&3 appointments.

 

Rosters are created to optimise training experience and specialty time over the basic physician training years.

 

The Central North West Consortium offers comprehensive support across all years of the PREP program with all rotations accredited by the RACP. We have a long tradition of providing excellent physician training to trainees within this consortium. A training program to support trainees preparing for the written and clinical RACP examinations has been implemented across all sites within the consortium. In-house written exam lectures are held September to January each year finishing with a mock 170 question written exam.  Applicants for PGY3 positions intending to complete the RACP examination process will be given priority for subsequent appointment to PGY4 positions the following year to enable optimal allocation of rotations and facilitate exam preparation for trainees. Further information can be obtained at www.centralnorthwest.org.au

 

Please note that these positions will be processed through the Postgraduate Medical Council Victoria Allocation and Placement Service.

 

About you 

To be successful in this role you’ll bring with you:

  • A commitment to high quality patient care
  • Ability to work within a team environment and collaborate effectively
  • Excellent communication skills at all levels
  • Current registration as a Medical Practitioner with AHPRA 

 

Our benefits 

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including: 

  • Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation. 
  • A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program. 
  • Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options. 
  • Mentoring and career development opportunities. 

 

Work with us! 

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures. 

 

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date. 

 

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working with Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Sarah Meade, Medical Workforce Coordinator on (03) 9496 6813.

 

Application Instructions:

Click on ‘Apply Now’ at the end of this page. You will be directed to sign in/register through the Austin Health Careers Site. Complete the registration process as prompted.

 

Please note: You will be required to apply directly to Austin Health as well as via PMCV. You will be required to attach copies of the following to your online application:

 

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details and click here for Austin Health's Basic Physician Training information guide.

 

Application closing date: Sunday 23 August 2026

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