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Senior Medical Officer (Julia Creek)

North West Hospital and Health Service
QLD
A$476,082 p/a
Healthcare & Medical → Medical Specialists
Full-time
On-site

Posted 23 days ago


North West Hospital and Health Service (HHS)

  • Unique locations
  • Friendly communities
  • Regional, rural and remote $$$ incentives

NOW is the time to expand your horizons… and right HERE is where it starts.

As Senior Medical Officer at McKinlay Shire Multipurpose Health Service, based at Julia Creek, you will be at the heart of the Julia Creek community.

Permanent full-time role - negotiable roster with part-time arrangement considered.

Working with us

  • Competitive pro rata remuneration package based on full-time equivalent value up to $680,277 per annum.
  • Generous employer contribution to superannuation.
  • Attraction and retention incentive allowance.
  • Regional and rural attraction allowance of 15% base annual salary.
  • Motor vehicle allowance.
  • Inaccessibility allowance.
  • Tax savings through salary sacrificing options are also available.

Plus we can offer:

  • On-Call - paid per occurence.
  • Recalls - Paid per occurrence.
  • Rent Free Accommodation (as per NWHHS Staff Accommodation policy; supported by McKinlay Shire Council).
  • 5 weeks annual recreational leave.
  • Professional Development Leave of 3.6 weeks p.a.

Professionally, our HHS values professionalism, leadership capability, excellence and resilience in our staff. We are committed to providing extraordinary opportunities for career development including in-house training, development and mentoring programs.

Nowhere else but here at Julia Creek.

Live and work surrounded by the expansive landscape of outback Queensland.

Spend more quality time doing the things you love or with your family.

No traffic jams or long commute here – simply black soil plains, blue sky and burnt orange sunsets.

About the role

Your primary role will be as the sole doctor providing clinical care for the community. As such you will be seeing patients across clinical settings: in a primary care clinic; in the Emergency Department; as in-patients on the ward; and as aged care residents.

It's a chance to experience the incredible variety offered by rural and remote healthcare and see patients in acute and community settings.

Requirements

  • Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP)
  • Fellowship in Advanced Rural General Practice (FARGP)/Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners – Rural Generalist (FRACGP-RG)
  • Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (FACRRM)
  • Mandatory requirements are a relevant tertiary degree qualification and appropriate registration/licences.
  • Current registration with or/eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia.
  • The applicant will hold:
  • The position may require the incumbent to be rostered outside of “ordinary hours”, with fatigue and afterhours support via telemedicine when required.
  • C Class Motor Vehicle Licence.
  • Pre-employment screening will be conducted for the successful applicant, including Aged Care / Criminal History checks.
  • This is a VPD risk role and may require evidence of vaccination or immunity to: Hepatitis A/B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, and Tuberculosis.
  • A period of probation may apply.

Interested?

Download the Role Description for further information and application / interview preparation.

Apply ONLINE: https://smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-MI620044

Contact: Dr Anthony Bell on 07 4744 4840.

Applications close: Thursday, 20 March 2025.


About North West Hospital and Health Service

Mount Isa, QLD, Australia

Our vision

Healthier Queenslanders.

Our purpose

To provide leadership and direction, and to work collaboratively to ensure the health system to deliver quality services that are safe and responsive for Queenslanders.

Our responsibilities

The Department of Health's role include:

1.providing strategic leadership and direction for health through the development of policies, legislation and regulations

2.developing statewide plans for health services, workforce and major capital investment

3.managing major capital works for public sector health service facilities

4.purchasing health service delivery

5.supporting and monitoring the quality of health service delivery

6.delivering specialised health services, providing ambulance, health information and communication technology and statewide health support services.

Hospital and Health Services are independent statutory agencies responsible for their own strategic plans.

Our strategic objectives

1.Supporting Queenslanders to be healthier: promoting and protecting the health of Queenslanders

2.Enabling safe, quality services: delivering and enabling safe, clinically effective, high quality health services

3.Equitable health outcomes: improving health outcomes through better access to services for Queenslanders

4.High performance: responsive, dynamic and accountable management of the department, and of funding and service performance

5.Dynamic policy leadership: drive service improvement and innovation through a collaborative policy cycle

6.Broad engagement with partners: harnessing the skill and knowledge of our partners

7.Engaged and productive workforce: foster a culture that is vibrant, innovative and collaborative

Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website.

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