Job Description
2026 ICU Registrar - General
Req ID: 3336
Posting Start Date: 27/04/2025
Work Location: The RMH Parkville (City campus) & The RMH Royal Park
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Job Description:

UNIT DESCRIPTION:

The Royal Melbourne Hospital Intensive Care Unit is a state-of-the art 42-bed facility providing care for almost 3000 patients per year and is one of the biggest and busiest ICUs in Australia. We are a level 3 adult unit caring for general and specialty medical and surgical patients, including neuro- and cardiac surgery. We are also an intermediate ECMO centre, one of two major trauma centres in the state, and the also provide intensive care services for patients at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and critically unwell patients from rural, regional Victoria and interstate.
The Intensive Care Unit is accredited for 2 years of core training by the College of Intensive Care Medicine including cardiac and neuro ICU and is one of only two Victorian sites accredited for trauma sub-speciality exposure. We offer a highly successful teaching program for ICU trainees, with our consultant team actively involved in the delivery of registrar and resident teaching, including exam-focussed teaching for both Primary and Fellowship exams. The RMH ICU education team runs several courses such as MCEC, BASIC, REACT, CALS and critical care echocardiography. Many opportunities exist for trainees to undertake research and complete their CICM formal project with supervision from experienced consultant researchers.
The ICU has four pods with a staffing structure ensuring trainees are very well-supported. In hours, the Intensive Care Unit is staffed by four consultants, two senior registrars or transition fellows and four registrars, one for each pod, plus an external outreach consultant and registrar. Consultant support is available at all times out of hours. From 7.30 am to12.00 midnight one HMO is rostered for each pod, with a single HMO rostered overnight. Registrars have 5 hours a week of protected and paid training time with a consultant-led education program delivered each week.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

This role is that of a Registrar within the Intensive Care Department, located at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, or on rotation to other Health Services (Northeast Health Wangaratta). Rotations in anaesthesia and medicine are also available.
The key responsibilities of the General Registrar are the provision of safe, timely and patient-centred care to patients within, and referred to the Intensive Care Unit. This requires effective teamwork in co-ordinating the day-to-day work of the Unit including supervision and teaching of more junior medical staff. This position is designed to provide appropriate exposure and experience to enable the doctor to attain appropriate skills and knowledge relevant to intensive care medicine. In addition, skills progression should assist the registrar to meet the requirements of specialist training programs such as the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM).