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Healthcare
Infectious Diseases Physician
Healthcare
#46515
Remote / WFH
Western Health
Job Description
Overview
Work Type: Fixed-term - Part-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Medicine, nursing and midwifery
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 7943
Location: Sunshine & Footscray Campus
Employment Type: Fixed Term (29 June 2026 to 27 November 2026)
Salary: HN16 - HN59 + Super + Salary Packaging
About the role
The Infectious Diseases Unit at Western Health has an exciting oppurtunity for an array of fixed term positions to cover leave.
The dates which are requiring coverage include:
29 June 2026 - 27 September 2026
21 September 2026 - 27 November 2026
Duties during this time may include (but are not limited to) ward service, various adult specialist clinics, Antimicrobial Stewerdship and Infection Prevention support.
Following the formal recruitment process - hours and clinical duties will be negotiated with succesful applicants based on experience, clinical expertise and availability.
Key responsibilities
Assume responsibility for quality patient care in accordance with the care model of the ward/unit, ensuring that clinical procedures are performed in accordance with Western Health policy and procedure
Ensure awareness of clinical experience and proficiency of junior medical staff delegated to deliver care and provide supervision for and be accountable for the care delivered and provide consistent and appropriate leadership and supervision to Junior Medical Staff
Actively participate in departmental or organisational wide quality and credentialing processes, including clinical work review groups
Work collaboratively and respectfully with multi-disciplinary team members to achieve desired outcomes for patients through effective communication and attendance and participation in unit and site clinical meeting
About you
Possess relevant experience, credentials and registration
Displays and expresses a high level of ethics in regards to patients, colleagues and the organisation
Experience in the support and supervision of Junior Medical Staff
Demonstrated ability to practice collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary health care team
Click here for the Position Description.
About Western Health
Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centred care across every life stage.
We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include oncology, renal, mental health, women’s health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.
We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia’s most culturally and socioeconomically diverse and vulnerable populations provides us with unique insights into the most pressing health challenges.
Western Health operates four acute public hospitals: Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s), Footscray Hospital, Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Community Hospital, Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre, Melton Health and Community Services, Bacchus Marsh Community Health Centre, Caroline Springs Community Health Centre and Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care in Bacchus Marsh. Western Health also provides the primary healthcare service at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women’s prison located in Ravenhall.
Work Type: Fixed-term - Part-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Medicine, nursing and midwifery
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 7943
Location: Sunshine & Footscray Campus
Employment Type: Fixed Term (29 June 2026 to 27 November 2026)
Salary: HN16 - HN59 + Super + Salary Packaging
About the role
The Infectious Diseases Unit at Western Health has an exciting oppurtunity for an array of fixed term positions to cover leave.
The dates which are requiring coverage include:
29 June 2026 - 27 September 2026
21 September 2026 - 27 November 2026
Duties during this time may include (but are not limited to) ward service, various adult specialist clinics, Antimicrobial Stewerdship and Infection Prevention support.
Following the formal recruitment process - hours and clinical duties will be negotiated with succesful applicants based on experience, clinical expertise and availability.
Key responsibilities
Assume responsibility for quality patient care in accordance with the care model of the ward/unit, ensuring that clinical procedures are performed in accordance with Western Health policy and procedure
Ensure awareness of clinical experience and proficiency of junior medical staff delegated to deliver care and provide supervision for and be accountable for the care delivered and provide consistent and appropriate leadership and supervision to Junior Medical Staff
Actively participate in departmental or organisational wide quality and credentialing processes, including clinical work review groups
Work collaboratively and respectfully with multi-disciplinary team members to achieve desired outcomes for patients through effective communication and attendance and participation in unit and site clinical meeting
About you
Possess relevant experience, credentials and registration
Displays and expresses a high level of ethics in regards to patients, colleagues and the organisation
Experience in the support and supervision of Junior Medical Staff
Demonstrated ability to practice collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary health care team
Click here for the Position Description.
About Western Health
Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centred care across every life stage.
We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include oncology, renal, mental health, women’s health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.
We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia’s most culturally and socioeconomically diverse and vulnerable populations provides us with unique insights into the most pressing health challenges.
Western Health operates four acute public hospitals: Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s), Footscray Hospital, Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Community Hospital, Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre, Melton Health and Community Services, Bacchus Marsh Community Health Centre, Caroline Springs Community Health Centre and Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care in Bacchus Marsh. Western Health also provides the primary healthcare service at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women’s prison located in Ravenhall.
