Job Description

• Multiple positions
• Increase your take-home pay with salary packaging of up to $15,900 plus $2,650 for meals and entertainment
• Work for a multidisciplinary team with a diverse range of backgrounds
So why cohealth?
cohealth is a leading not-for-profit health service delivering primary care and community services across Victoria and Tasmania. With more than 900 staff, we're committed to improving health and wellbeing for all through inclusive, high-quality care and strong community partnerships.
At cohealth, you'll join a supportive and inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, wellbeing matters, and your contribution makes a genuine difference in the communities we serve. Please click here to find out more.
About the role
Make a real impact in paediatric healthcare. Working alongside the Royal Children’s Hospital ED as a General Practitioner, you'll provide high-quality urgent care to children and families, improving access to care, reducing ED demand, and delivering compassionate, patient-centred GP-lead treatment when it's needed most.
Please refer to the Position Description to know more about the role.
Your duties include:
• Provide assessments and treatments as required to patients presenting to the clinic, triaging cases and facilitating referrals as appropriate
• Provide education and follow up advice to patients and families
• Support patient flow and access to services including identification of UCC appropriate patients
• Participate in rostered hours, including extended hours, weekends and public holidays
What cohealth offers:
• Exciting Parental leave benefits
◦ cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
◦ Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/individuals-and-families/jobs-and-employment-types/working-as-an-employee/salary-sacrificing-for-employees
• Novated Leasing available
• A significantly discounted fitness membership with unlimited access to over 290 facilities for you and your family. To find out more click here
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)
Our ideal candidate:
• Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) or the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM)
• Current specialist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Demonstrated understanding of holistic, patient-centred care within the paediatric urgent care setting
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a patient-focused approach
• Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively
Application Process
We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.
If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Nick Young Nick.Young@cohealth.org.au
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.
Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.