Job Description
University Hospital Geelong ICU is a 24-bed Level 3, C24 CICM-accredited unit and the largest regional ICU in Victoria, managing over 1600 admissions annually and providing high-quality care across adult, cardiothoracic and paediatric patients; as a Senior Registrar, you will play a key leadership role in delivering comprehensive clinical care, leading ward rounds with specialist support, supervising and teaching junior staff, and contributing to ICU operations, while gaining exposure to a well-established ECMO service (including VA, VV and ECMO-CPR) and participating in education, research, and quality improvement activities within a highly supportive, collaborative environment designed to foster advanced training progression and professional development.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver advanced clinical care to critically ill adult & paediatric patients
- Perform assessment, resuscitation, procedures, and treatment planning
- Lead daily ward rounds under intensivist supervision
- Coordinate patient flow and ICU operations with medical and nursing teams
- Review and manage patients in ED, wards, and theatres as required
- Escalate complex cases (e.g. ECMO, paediatrics, unstable patients) appropriately
- Provide clear communication with families, carers, and referring teams
- Attend MET/Code Blue calls and deliver advanced life support
- Supervise and teach junior medical staff and students
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation
- Participate in after-hours/on-call roster with increasing autonomy and off-site first on call component
- Contribute to:
- Education programs (CICM prep, journal club, echo training)
- Quality improvement, audits, and research