About Monash Health

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service. We are proud to provide healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire life-span from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 18,000 employees work at over 40 care locations across south eastern Melbourne, including Monash Medical Centre, Monash Children’s Hospital, Moorabbin Hospital, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, Kingston Centre, Cranbourne Centre, and an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities. For more information please visit www.monashhealth.org.

About Monash Doctors

There are more than 1500 Junior Medical staff positions at Monash Health in over 200 medical specialties, to help grow your career. We offer unparalleled opportunities in Victoria's largest & most clinically diverse teaching health service.

About the Role

Dandenong  Hospital is accredited by the RACP for advanced training in General Paediatrics with a perinatal component and is accredited as an extended skills post with Eastern Victoria General Practice Training, in line with the RACGP vocational training standards. Experienced doctors looking to gain further Paediatric and Neonatal skills who believe they have the skills and experience to function at Registrar level are also welcome to apply.

This position offers a broad range of general paediatric and neonatal experience for those wishing to broaden their experience beyond a tertiary hospital. There will be extensive neonatal experience with the opportunity for both supervised and independent patient management, as well as the management of infants and older children with acute problems in a ward based environment with significant emergency department liaison.

There is an established general paediatric outpatient service which will provide excellent exposure to cases of varying complexity. 

What we offer

• Salary packaging


• Onsite discounted staff parking


• Discounted banking (BankVic)


• Onsite Gym


• Access to professional development courses and seminars


• International Relocation allowance available to contribute towards the cost of airfares, initial temporary accommodation and hotel quarantine (if required)

What you need

• Medical Registration/eligibility for registration with AHPRA


• Prior experience in Neonatal care, (ideally at least 3 months of tertiary neonates) or for General Practice trainees without neonatal experience, experience of acute care (e.g. ICU or anaesthetics) including airway skills. One referee should be able to verify the extent of your neonatal experience including resuscitation or your acute care and airway skills.


• Employee Working with Children's check


• Satisfactory completion of an Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) course or equivalent within the last 5 years is desirable

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.
Applications will only be accepted via the Monash Health online Mercury System only. Email applications will not be considered.
Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed.  These include:

• reference checks


• a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;

• a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and


• proof of immunisation.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.  The current orders require evidence of three doses.
All applicants to positions with Monash Health will need to upload acceptable evidence of full vaccination against COVID-19 as part of their application.  Acceptable evidence is a copy of your Immunisation History Statement or your COVID-19 Digital Certificate, which can be accessed via MyGov.