Emergency Department HMO

Opportunity for HMOs to join our Emergency Department in May and August 2026. 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. Austin Emergency Department is one of Melbourne’s busiest, seeing around 90,000 patients annually. We have access to a wide range of rotations for our Doctors. For Registrars, we offer the standard rotations as well as exclusive Special Skills Terms that are available only at the Austin and boast regular hours with no night shifts. Whilst employed in the Emergency Department, registrars will usually work a rotating roster including day, evening and night duty. The roster will involve weekend and Public Holiday duty. There is no on-call component. Whilst on rotation to other Departments, there may be an on-call component in addition to rostered hours. We have built one of Melbourne’s biggest and most effective Short Stay Units where opportunities arise to practice and learn clinical medicine in a more controlled environment. Our Fast Track area is staffed by Advanced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapists, Nurse Practitioners as well as Doctors and provides ample opportunities to develop procedural skills. The Emergency Department is separated geographically into Adults and Paediatrics; there are ample opportunities to work shifts in the dedicated paediatric area to work towards completion of the paediatric logbook. Our department has a team of Emergency Physicians dedicated to Junior Medical Staff Education. For HMOs, there are weekly Emergency Medicine tutorials and hands-on skills sessions in addition to the education offered at a hospital-level. HMOs are most welcome to attend the weekly Registrar teaching. There is Emergency Physician presence 0800 to 2300 daily and on-call 2300 to 0800. Our Emergency Department values the wellbeing and health of its staff and has a wellness committee called TeamED, the ED Social Club and a departmental peer support program called WEEPS available for all staff to participate in as they wish.