2026 PIPER Neonatal Senior Registrar

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) provides secondary and tertiary care to children and young people across the northern and western suburbs; specialist paediatric healthcare to the children of Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and parts of South Australia; and is the designated state-wide provider of services including paediatric trauma, rehabilitation and forensic medicine. As a quaternary centre for complex cardiac surgery and organ transplantation, the RCH cares for the sickest children from around Australia.

With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 6000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.

The Royal Children’s Hospital is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Click here for further information on our Commitment to Child Safety: http://www.rch.org.au/quality/child-safety/.

Further information about RCH is available at www.rch.org.au.

Senior Registrar - Neonatal Retrieval – Melbourne AUSTRALIA

The Paediatric Infant and Perinatal Emergency Retrieval (PIPER) service is recruiting for full time and part-time fixed term positions for 6 or 12 months commencing in February or August 2026.

These positions are suitable for senior trainees with preferably a minimum of 18 months experience in a tertiary Australian Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or equivalent. Prior experience in neonatal retrieval with PIPER or an equivalent service is desirable.

PIPER Neonatal undertakes 1600 emergency neonatal retrievals per year, by road or air.  Training in neonatal and infant emergency transport and neonatology is provided and research is supported and encouraged.

PIPER Neonatal is collocated with the PIPER paediatric retrieval service and the perinatal emergency referral service within the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH).  Excellent relationships between PIPER and the neonatal services at the Royal Women’s, RCH, Monash Children’s, Mercy Hospital for Women and the Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s hospital allows medical retrieval clinicians access to the extensive academic and clinical resources of these hospitals. PIPER is collaborating with these neonatal services to enable synchronized job offers during May 2025. Separate appointments that together form an integrated advanced training program in neonatal-perinatal medicine may be able to be negotiated.    

For further information please contact A/Prof. Michael Stewart on michael.stewart@rch.org.au or phone:  +613 9345 9030 or +61 0409003464.

Applications must be made online at www.rch.org.au/careers.

Please click here for the PD for this role.

Why work at the RCH?

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities,  surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background,  all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital.  Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption.

Are you ready to join our team? 

 Apply online by clicking on the “Apply” button

Applications close 02 May 2025