Company description:

As an organisation we have a clear focus on how we service and partner with our community, including our strategy of helping the community stay well when at home. Our reputation of community minded, inclusive and progressive is matched to none.

Job description:

The Role:

Paediatric Craigieburn Community Fellow from August 2025 covering maternity leave. This role is to start from as early as 4th August 2025 for 6 or 12-month placement.

Come and join the Paediatric team at Northern Health and gain fantastic exposure to Community Paediatric medicine in one of Melbourne's rapidly growing northern growth corridor. Northern Health provides healthcare to a population of over 580,000 people and in the Paediatric Department we care for general paediatric medical and neonatal patients.

The inpatient service includes:

• A very busy Paediatric Emergency Department that sees approximately 25,000 Paediatric patients per year with designated Paediatric emergency medicine consultant supervision. The Paediatric ED is accredited for PEM training and for acute training under RACP Advanced General Paediatric stream
• A Neonatal Unit with twenty one cots, which provides high dependency neonatal care with a level five capability. There is always a neonatologist covering, and we manage TPN, chest drainage and ROP screening. There are more than 3,600 infants born annually by the obstetric service
• A Children's Unit containing twenty two beds (which includes two Paediatric Short Stay Unit beds) and caters for paediatric medical and paediatric surgical patients. Prior to COVID, there were 2 paediatric HDU beds located in the adult ICU

Northern Health is committed to medical education & training through the Teaching, Training & Research Precinct - a joint venture with The University of Melbourne, La Trobe University and the Victorian and Commonwealth Governments.

The Craigieburn Community Fellow position is an Advanced Paediatric Training position that covers the specialist outpatient clinics at Craigieburn Health Service. Here, the trainee will care for a wide variety of culturally and linguistically diverse communities, with a high proportion of socio-economically disadvantaged families. The community fellow will participate in consultant supervised clinics including: the Northern Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinic (NASDAC), Refugee health clinic, Developmental and behavioural clinic, General Paediatric clinic and Continence clinic.

The trainee will also be a part of the weekly education sessions held by the Centre for Community and Child Health (CCCH) at RCH on a Wednesday afternoon, and be given rostered non clinical time.

This position is accredited under the Advanced Training Committee in General Paediatrics and Community Paediatrics for up to 12 months of Community/Developmental medicine.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Medical registration with the Medical Board of Australia under the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Current National Police and Working with Children History Check
• Enrolled as an Advanced Paediatric training through RACP under either General Paediatric or Community Paediatric SAC
• The Staff Immunisation Questionnaire must be completed by all new employees as part of the mandatory on-boarding process. New employees are not permitted to undertake any activity that requires patient contact prior to clearance by the Staff Immunisation Nurses; this also includes evidence of having the Flu vaccination on a yearly basis. New employees with contra-indications to vaccinations or who decline vaccination are required to attend a face to face consultation with the Immunisation Nurses for appropriate documentation of their contraindications or declination. This must be completed PRIOR to commencing any work with Northern Health.

Next Steps . . .

If this sounds like the job for you, click the "Apply" button.

For further details, please refer to the Position Description or alternatively contact: Dr David Tran, Director of Women's and Children's via [email protected] or Dr Rami Subhi, Head of Paediatric Unit [email protected]

Applications close 6 July 2025