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Queensland Health

Senior Medical Officer (Rural Generalist with Advanced Skills in Emergency, General Practice or Procedural Anaesthetics) Mareeba

Queensland, Australia

Location
Queensland, Australia
Work
Not stated
Employment
Not stated
Level
Senior
Function
Healthcare
Pay
From A$192.3K a year
Posted
2 weeks ago

About the role

About us

Situated on the beautiful Atherton Tablelands, Mareeba offers the perfect blend of meaningful work, professional autonomy, and an enviable Far North Queensland lifestyle. As part of the Rural and Remote Services directorate, you'll join a dedicated team supporting more than 30 regional, rural and remote facilities across 142,900 km², serving over 250,000 people in a largely self‑sufficient health service.

About your new role

As a Rural Generalist with Rural Generalist with Emergency, General Practice or Procedural Anaesthetics, your new role you will…

  • Implement and monitor the organisation's quality standards, work health and safety policies, procedures and programs and provide clinical governance in the relevant work area.
  • Active involvement in all clinical governance activities in the workplace – e.g. Clinical Care Review Meetings, Mortality and Morbidity Review Meetings and Death Reviews.
  • Provision of population health services to the local community or communities served, including active participation in community health programs.

As a Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service employee, not only will you receive a competitive base salary (total remuneration):

  • Salary up to $282,912 per annum full time (L18 – L27) Remuneration up to $474,921 per annum full time (L18 – L27) or,
  • Salary up to $193,191 per annum full time (L13) Remuneration up to $335,327 per annum full time (L13)

You will also have access to:

  • Generous superannuation (up to 12.75%)
  • Attraction & retention allowance (up to 50% of base salary)
  • Inaccessibility incentive allowance (Category 5 $20,700 per annum full time 100% paid after 12 months service)
  • Professional development allowance
  • Motor vehicle allowance
  • Professional development leave (3.6 weeks p.a.)
  • Private practice arrangements
  • Salary packaging
  • Annual incremental increases
  • Career training and development
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Wellness programs

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Why choose Cairns?

Choose Cairns for your next career move - YouTube.

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Cairns and Hinterland here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland.

Source

Posted by Queensland Health on their own hiring page, smartjobs.qld.gov.au. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 05:10 UTC; the original is the reference.

Contains information from SmartJobs, © State of Queensland, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)

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