Hospital Medical Officer

Your Role at St John of God Geelong Hospital

You will be a Junior Medical Officer looking to increase your experience within world class facilities. You will be exposed to wide variety of clinical casemix appropriate to your stage of training and learn from some of Geelongs leading medical and emergency specialists ideally working on a fulltime contract.

Applications will be reviewed throughout the advertising period and interviews conducted regularly so apply today!

The Position

• Contribute to all aspects of clinical care of patients who are admitted under the care of consultants to clinical units in the hospital. This would particularly be in regard to medical admissions of acutely ill patients through the emergency department.

• Whenever possible attend ward rounds of Medical Consultants especially the Medical Consultant on call.

• Review any urgent medical problems and provide advice and assistance with clinical matters within the Hospital as requested by the relevant Consultant.

• Contribute to the development implementation and evaluation of patient management plans.

• Assess and record in the Medical Records all relevant clinical details of patients; at admission or in the context of an inhospital consultation during inhospital care and at discharge from the Hospital.

• Where relevant undertake clinical evaluation of patients as their condition requires.

• Contribute to the patient care plans and discharge planning of each patient as required.

• Respond to Hospital clinical emergencies as member of the MET team when so deployed

• Assist in the supervising and training of undergraduate Medical Students if and when requested

• Complete discharge summaries of all acute medical admissions.

You will be eligible for registration as a medical practitioner with the Medical Board of Australia (AHPRA) with a minimum of 2 years postgraduate training.

You will have a Commitment to the promotion protection maintenance and restoration of the health of all patients and be able to work in a multidisciplinary team environment.

Above all people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

We can offer you

• Competitive salary and conditions

• A full time permanent position.

• Generous salary packaging options

  • Up to $15900 on a range of benefits such as mortgage rent or other everyday living expenses

  • Up to $2650 on meal entertainment holiday accommodation and venue hire

  • Access to novated leasing to use pretax dollars for a car and expenses

• A healthy worklife balance through flexible work options additional purchased leave & wellbeing programs

• Purchase up to 2 weeks of additional annual leave.

• Paid Parental leave 14 weeks full pay/28 weeks half pay.

• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance

* All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the requirements of the role.

For enquiries about this position applicants should contact Michael Desmond Director of Medical Services ph.: (03)

Applications Close: June 15th 2025

At St John of God Health Care we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse ensuring their safety and wellbeing.

Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure welcoming and accessible and unified through our diverse community.

All caregivers employed by St John of God Health Care are required to be vaccinated from Influenza in order to fulfil the requirements of the role.