Emergency & Critical Care Internship – CARE Melbourne
Late January-February 2027 | Full time | 12 months
The Centre for Animal Referral & Emergency (CARE) is offering an Emergency & Critical Care Internship that stands out for one simple reason - the experience you’ll gain here is hard to replicate anywhere else.
Located in Collingwood, just on the edge of Melbourne’s CBD, CARE is one of the city’s largest and most established multidisciplinary specialist hospitals. It’s a busy, purpose-built referral centre with a strong reputation for managing complex cases and delivering consistently high standards of care. The hospital services a large and loyal referral base, resulting in a diverse and often advanced caseload that gives interns genuine exposure to the breadth of emergency and critical care.
Despite its size and pace, what defines CARE is the way the hospital functions day to day - structured, collaborative, and highly supportive. It’s a place where specialists, ECC vets, and nurses work closely together, and where learning is built into every shift.
This is a fast-paced environment where you’ll be challenged, supported, and immersed in real emergency medicine without ever feeling like you’re doing it alone.
Learn emergency medicine the right way
You’ll be immersed in a high-volume ECC service seeing over 10,000 cases annually, giving you exposure to a wide range of presentations from common emergencies to complex critical care cases.
Importantly, this is a structured and supported internship.
You will:
The roster includes a mix of day, evening and overnight shifts, giving you true exposure to the flow of emergency practice.
Work alongside exceptional clinicians
CARE has a strong reputation for the calibre of its team.
You’ll work closely with experienced membership-level ECC vets, including ECC Specialist Dr Christine Lovatt DACVECC, and alongside specialists across medicine and surgery. The hospital also offers access to advanced therapies and capabilities not widely available, including Therapeutic Plasma Exchange, making it a genuinely unique clinical environment.
The focus is on learning through exposure, discussion, and mentorship, not just observation.
The program
This is a 12‑month fixed term, full-time, internship, primarily within the Emergency Department, with rotations through other specialist services including medicine and surgery.
The structure is designed to:
There is also encouragement and support for those considering further study or membership examinations, with 8 staff members passing membership exams over the last 4 years.
Who this role suits
This role is ideal for someone who:
Candidates with some prior GP experience are ideal, but new graduates with the right mindset and commitment are encouraged to apply.
Ready to apply
If you’re looking for an ECC internship where you’ll be challenged, supported, and genuinely developed, CARE Melbourne is an exceptional place to start.
For more information or a confidential conversation:
Sharleen Harman | Talent Acquisition Business Partner – Vet Specialists & Interns
0420 249 101 | sharleen.harman@gxltd.com.au
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Established in 1994, Greencross Vets is the largest veterinary services provider in Australia where we operate over 150+ clinics including General Practices and Animal Emergency Clinics.
As Australia's leading veterinary group, we provide pet owners access to a network of well-equipped veterinary practices run by local veterinary teams, which offer exceptional client and patient care.
We feature some of the most advanced practices in the veterinary industry and choose the best diagnostic tools, treatments and preventative measures based on clinical excellence.
Greencross are part of a community of vets who enjoy sharing their knowledge and clinical expertise. Complex cases can be discussed with our centres of excellence, where we have the most advanced equipment and nationally recognised teams of specialist vets. Finally, there’s our Vet Advisory Board (VAB) that leads our clinical practice and maintains our high standards consistently across the group.
Our operations include:
• General Practices
• Emergency Centres
• Specialist Centres
General practices, consisting of veterinary practices that offer consultations and associated diagnostics capabilities and general practice medical and surgical treatment options. Emergency centres, providing full animal hospital facilities for after-hours care and treatment of sick pets, and Specialist centres providing veterinary care across a number of specialist services including medicine, surgery, pathology, radiology, dermatology, cardiology, ophthalmology and dentistry.
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