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General Practitioner or Registrar, GP Obstetrician 

North East Victoria – Benalla

Distribution Priority Area (DPA) – Yes
Modified Monash – MM5

Church Street Surgery is an Accredited Teaching Practice looking for a Full Time or Part Time GP or registrar to join our team.

About us

We are a friendly family-orientated practice located in Benalla, North East Victoria with a population of around 15000.

We are the largest of 3 GP surgeries in Benalla and currently have 11 GPs onsite. Our practice has 16 consulting rooms and a 3 bed procedure and nurse treatment room. We conveniently house Dorevitch Pathology who are available Monday to Friday. We have 10 nurses that support our GPs with treatment room support for minor surgical procedures, dressings, vaccinations, spirometry, diabetes education, health promotion and chronic disease management.

We are a very keen teaching practice, accredited with the RACGP and ACCRM . We supervise and train medical students, interns, residents and registrars in training towards ACCRM and RACGP qualifications. We have weekly lunch time education meetings and monthly dinner education meetings to assist with ongoing learning.

Within the team we are proud to share an incredible range of skills with the community, such as anaesthetics, obstetrics, emergency medicine, surgery, skin cancer, mental health, youth health, paediatrics, First Nations health, travel medicine and aged care.

Upholding a supportive, friendly and robust workplace culture is one of our key attributes and is a credit to our wonderful staff.

We are AGPAL accredited and have previously been awarded Australian Practice of the Year.

About the position

The successful GP is preferred to have experience in rural communities and will need to be credentialed as a VMO at Benalla Health. Services at Benalla Health include 30 bed public hospital, an urgent care centre, inpatient care, obstetrics and 2 surgical theatres. The hospital has medical imaging onsite with x-ray, ultrasound and CT scanning services. We have 4  residential aged care facilities in Benalla which are serviced by our GPs.

Surgery hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 5:30pm and Saturday 9am to 12noon. The GP will be required to participate in a town shared after hours on-call roster. If working full time you would be required to be on-call for the hospital inpatients and urgent care (approximately 1 night in 15). This responsibility comes with a generous on-call payment (in addition to generous allocation of billings from patients seen). GPs are also required to work one weekend in 15 as a part of providing hospital services.

About the area 

Benalla is a fantastic place to live and enjoy all the perks of a rural lifestyle. We are surrounded by lush farmland, State and National Parks, the Victorian Alps, and the renowned King Valley gourmet food and wine region. Benalla locals are sports enthusiasts and support local football, netball, basketball, hockey and tennis competitions across all divisions (we even have a work team in the social mixed-netball comp!).  Camping, cycling (road and mountain bike), horse-riding, bushwalking, skiing and snowboarding, golf and fishing are other popular outdoor pursuits that are available for our doctors to enjoy in the region. We have an impressive art gallery and have been named the regional street art capital of Australia, hosting an annual street art festival.

Benalla is 216 km’s north east of Melbourne via the Hume Freeway (2 hours drive or train journey). The closest public emergency department is located at Northeast Health in Wangaratta, 30 minutes drive from Benalla. They also offer most sub-specialist services.