Advanced Trainee - Geriatric Medicine

Job Description:

• Excellent supervision tailored training and development opportunities
• Culture of excellence with friendly and supportive team
• Full time (43 hour/week) fixed term for 2026 clinical year (02.02. 2026 31.01.2027)

About the Role

St Vincents Hospital Melbourne is recruiting enthusiastic collaborative trainees with excellent communication and clinical skills for our Advanced Trainee (AT) positions in 2026.

Recruited through the PMCV Centralised Match ATs have three 4-month rotations based out of St Vincents Hospital campus in Fitzroy St Georges Hospital campus in Kew and into the surrounding community. We take your training seriously and pride ourselves on our supervision mentoring and individualised training to meet your needs.

Please note those recruited to St Vincents Hospital Melbourne through the PMCV Centralised Match will not have rotations to external/regional hospitals; the Regional Training Partnership appointment with South West Healthcare occurs through a separate application process.

All rotations are planned to ensure that our trainees get exposure to the wide range of services at St Vincents including Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) Acute Care of the Elderly and Orthogeriatrics specialty clinics (CDAMS Continence Falls & Balance Older Persons Pain Management Structural Heart Disease and Onco-Geriatrics) Residential In-Reach and Psychogeriatrics. Other experiences including Aged Care Assessment Service (ACAS) inpatient consultations and comprehensive geriatric assessments in environments such as the community and Emergency Department can also be built in to rotations if desired. All trainees have dedicated protected teaching time.

Successful candidates will:

• Communicate and coordinate effective admission medical and discharge management plans diagnostic requests and consultations with patients families/carers and teams.
• Attend ward rounds team meetings family meetings and other departmental meetings.
• Attend outpatient clinics community assessments and residential aged care facilities as required.
• Participate in afterhours/on-call roster.
• Supervise and teach junior medical staff and medical students.
• Attend and participate in quality and education opportunities (eg. journal club grand rounds clinical review meetings Victorian Geriatric Medicine Training Program) and other hospital committees.

Classifications for this position will range from HM25 HM30 ($129048.40-

$177622.12) as per the relevant Enterprise Bargaining Agreement.

What you will bring

• Perform duties of the position to best of your ability and to acceptable standards under supervision.
• Actively support patients families and carers tomake informed decisions about their treatment and ongoing care.
• Communicate and collaborate with patients families carers GPs colleagues and broader health and social support networks

Essential requirements

• MBBS or equivalent
• APHRA registration as a medical practitioner
• Eligibility as Advanced Trainee in Geriatric Medicine with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• Current National police check

About the Department of Geriatric Medicine

The Department of Geriatric Medicine is a friendly engaged and collaborative team which supports a variety of bed-based and community-based services in acute subacute and community settings including a wide range of clinics. We pride ourselves on excellent supervision and support of trainees with rotations tailored to our trainees training needs. Rotations are designed to ensure that we train well-rounded adaptable Geriatricians that are able to work across the care spectrum. Our Geriatricians also rotate between roles to ensure that trainees get exposure to different styles of practice and supervision.

Current rotations*

• Acute Care of the Elderly & Orthogeriatrics
• GEM Bolte
• GEM Kew 1
• GEM Kew 2
• & Residential In Reach

*Rotations may be altered to accommodate training needs/service developments

Working at St Vincents

St Vincents Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is a leading teaching research and tertiary health service. SVHM provides an extensive range of adult clinical services across our Fitzroy Kew and Truganina sites.

We warmly encourage applications from talented people of all backgrounds including those who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people with disability neurodiverse individuals LGBTQIA and people of all ages cultures and identities. Our mission is to create an environment that reflects and supports the rich diversity of the community we serve.

Together we celebrate our values of Compassion Justice Integrity and Excellence making SVHM a unique safe and welcoming place to work.

What we can offer you

• Career development & advancement opportunities
• Culture of strong collaborative teams quality care and continuous improvement
• Salary Packaging
• Employee Assistance Program
• Staff Health Centre
• Discounts and Promotions available through our Foundation

Pre-employment checks

• Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role-required pre-employment checks including relevant immunisations.

How to Apply

To apply click the Apply button. You will be prompted to create a Workday candidate profile and upload your current resume and cover letter addressed to Dr Richard Kane.

All interested applicants should contact Dr Richard Kane and Dr Christine Mandrawa for a preliminary conversation to ensure that we can meet your training needs.

Applicants will need to apply to both St Vincents Hospital Melbourne (via ) and the Post Graduate Medical Council of Victoria Matching Service (PMCV).

All appointments will be made through PMCVs centralised match.

Please visit Recruitment pathways for 2026 for more details noting:

• The centralised match for 2026 will be a single-round match with both New and Continuing Advanced Trainees participating
• The closing dates for the match are available on the VGMTP website. Please note that the closing date for applications with SVHM may be different to the PMCV match closing date.
• Those wanting to apply for the Regional Training Partnership (one year at South West Healthcare then one year at St Vincents Hospital) need to apply through the process as outlined on the VGMTP website.

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