Title:  Emergency Medicine Specialist

Emergency Physician

• Fractional Long Service Leave Cover | Fixed/Ongoing 
• On site parking available
• Partner in care at a leading health service  

Eastern Health

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.

Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan – which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.

About the role

Eastern Health - Emergency Department is a mixed Adult and Paediatric ED with a wide variety of case complexity and acuity of patient presentations. It is the major referral hospital within Eastern Health with most specialty services on site.

We are looking for enthusiastic emergency specialists who will:

• Contribute actively to provision of clinical care, supervision, and departmental clinical oversight to ensure delivery of high quality, efficient and safe patient care at all times.
• Actively contribute to collaborative work, departmental cohesion and activities that foster a supportive, fulfilling environment for all staff within the emergency department

About you

To be successful in this role you will possess:

• Current Specialist registration with AHPRA
• Post Graduate qualifications in Emergency Medicine
• Highly developed interpersonal and leadership experience
• A strong commitment to high quality care
• The ability to work as part of a diverse team
• Excellent communication and organisational skill
• Must be a registered medical practitioner in the State of Victoria
• Must have significant clinical experience, with experience and training in emergency medicine.
• Must hold a Fellowship of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) or fellowship of the Australian College of General practitioners (RACGP) with relevant experience in Emergency Medicine or hold other equivalent qualifications to enable recognition as a specialist Emergency Physician.
• Must be recognized by Medicare as a specialist in emergency medicine.
• Must participate in relevant college continuing education programs particularly related to emergency medicine.

Other

• Demonstrated experience in teaching of medical students and HMOs.
• Teaching experience of other clinical staff – nursing and allied health.
• Exposure to research practices and principles.
• Familiarity with clinical information systems
• Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment

Healthcare workers are strongly recommended to follow COVID vaccination recommendations provided in the Australian Immunisation handbook (based on ATAGI advice). Seasonal vaccination against influenza is a mandatory requirement of this role and an offer is conditional on this being up to date prior to employment.

What we offer

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here!

• Mentor and Shadowing program 
• Access to discovery days across our 50 sites 
• Study and professional development leave 
• Friendly & supportive teams
• Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 
• Fitness Passport for work-life balance 
• Employee Assistance program accessible for you and your loved ones 
• Flexible working hours and excellent entitlements 
• Salary packaging options and an employee benefits scheme 
• Access to Private Health Insurance offers 
• Digital upskilling, such as excel and Power-Bi training 
• Cafes at all of our Hospitals 

Next Steps

Apply online if you feel we are a good match, you have the skills and qualities to make a difference, and are eligible to work in Australia.

We review all applications when we receive them, and we notify unsuccessful candidates.

If you are shortlisted, we will be in touch to arrange an interview, and you must complete a National Police Check.

Good to know:

• We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
• We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
• As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
• Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
• Advertising may end before the closing date.
• We do not accept recruitment agency application

If you are a current Eastern Health employee please ensure you log in with your internal Eastern Health account to apply for this or other roles.

Please click here for position description link

Contact Person: Jane Lukins

Contact Number: 03 9975 6043

Contact Email: jane.lukins@easternhealth.org.au

Job Posting End Date: 27/11/2025

Need help submitting your application?

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1) | Medical Workforce Unit on (03) 9895 3469. [TA for Non Medical roles, MWU for Medical roles]

Click Here for the Candidate Guide also for help in our recruitment process!

Our Values in Action:

Respect for all | Safe always | Partnering in care | Learning and improving every day