Advanced Trainee - Geriatric Medicine
St Vincent's Health Australia
Advanced Trainees in Geriatric Medicine
Excellent supervision, tailored training, and development opportunities
Culture of excellence with friendly and supportive team
Full time (43 hours) fixed term for 2027 clinical year (1/2/2027-6/2/2028)
About the Role
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne is recruiting enthusiastic, collaborative trainees with excellent communication and clinical skills for our Advanced Trainee (AT) positions in 2027.
Recruited through the PMCV Centralised Match, ATs have three 4-month rotations based out of St Vincent’s Hospital campus in Fitzroy, St George’s 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 Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne through the PMCV Centralised Match will not have rotations to external/regional hospitals; any Regional Training Partnership appointments with South West Healthcare occur through a separate application process.
All rotations are planned to ensure that our trainees get exposure to the wide range of services at St Vincent’s including Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM), Acute Care of the Elderly and Orthogeriatrics, specialty clinics (CDAMS, Continence, Falls & Balance, Pain Clinic for Older People, Structural Heart Disease and Onco-Geriatrics), Residential In-Reach, GEM@Home 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, as per the relevant Enterprise Bargaining Agreement.
Your Contribution
Perform duties of the position to best of your ability and to acceptable standards under supervision.
Actively support patients, families and carers to make informed decisions about their treatment and ongoing care.
Communicate and collaborate with patients, families, carers, GPs, colleagues and broader health and social support networks
What you will bring
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
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
Working at St Vincent’s
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is part of St Vincent’s Health Australia and a leading teaching, research and tertiary health service, which employs more than 6,500 staff across 18 sites throughout Melbourne. SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services including acute medical and surgical services, sub-acute care, medical diagnostics, rehabilitation, allied health, mental health, palliative care, correctional health and community residential care. SVHM is one of Australia's leading Catholic not-for-profit healthcare providers.
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*
Rotation
Additional responsibilities
Acute Care of the Elderly & Orthogeriatrics
Residential In Reach visit
Onco-Geriatric Clinic
GEM Bolte
Structural Heart Disease Clinic
Pain Clinic for Older People
GEM Kew 1
Psychogeriatric ward round/liaison
CDAMS (Memory) Clinic
GEM Kew 2
Continence Clinic
GEM@Home visit
GEM@Home & Residential In Reach
Falls and Balance Clinic
- As per 2026. To be used as a guide only as 2027 rotations may be altered to accommodate training needs/service developments
Applications
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 Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (via www.svha.org.au) and the Post Graduate Medical Council of Victoria Matching Service (PMCV).
For SVHM applications, click the ' Apply' button and you will be prompted to create a Workday candidate profile.
Please upload your resume, cover letter, addressed to Dr Richard Kane, Clinical Director Geriatric Medicine and Continuing Care.
Please ensure the contact details of two (2) referees are included in your resume.
All appointments will be made through PMCV’s centralised match.
The centralised match for 2027 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 Vincent’s Hospital) need to apply through the process as outlined on the VGMTP website.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.
Please visit our website, for further information regarding our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment at SVHM.
SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings. You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations.
Closing Date
27 July 2026 11:59pm
Reconciliation Action Plan
At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at ***email_hidden***
