43 Hours per week | Available from late September 2026

About the Role

The Grampians Public Health Unit (GPHU) is seeking a Public Health Medicine Registrar to join our team. The successful candidate will contribute to the Unit's health protection, disease prevention and health promotion functions while gaining experience and skills in public health medicine practice. As a registrar you will learn about clinical leadership & development and core public health medicine competencies while working with GPHU staff specialists and other highly qualified professionals.

Training will include opportunities to focus in one or more of the GPHU’s pillars covering the breadth of public health practice:

- Health protection
- Health promotion and disease prevention
- Population health and its social and other determinants

Key Responsibilities (to be completed under supervision)

- Learn about and support emergency management activities as required and assist in the response to public health incidents and emergencies
- Undertake research in public health and epidemiology, population health, communicable diseases and infection control
- Participate in the GPHU on‑call roster as required
- Apply expertise in risk‑informed situation analysis and make appropriate decisions in a timely manner to ensure the needs of patients, staff, organisation and community are met
- As needed, participate in training and supervision of registrars, other staff and students

Skills & Experience





- General registration with the Medical Board of Australia (AHPRA)
- Master’s degree in public health (or equivalent or higher qualification)
- Eligible for (or currently undertaking) advanced training with the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM)

Advantages

- Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Access to Fitness Passport membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs

Interested?

Contact Dr Rosemary Aldrich on for a confidential discussion or apply online.

Job applications close: 16 August 2026.

Diversity and Inclusion

All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check. All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role dependent.

Grampians Health is a child‑safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. It is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature‑age workers and LGBTQIA+ individuals.

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