Specialist Consultant

General practice - emergency medicine

Palm Island, Queensland AU


Job Description:

Locum cover is required from 20 March - 1 April 2023.

Position Details:

  • FRACGP/FACCRM
  • ALS2 required

Client Description:

This is an integrated health service providing health services to the surrounding community.

The hospital consists of:

  • 15-bed general ward and provides a primary level of acute care services 
  • Emergency services which manages resuscitation and stabilisation prior to referral to the secondary or tertiary hospital
  • general management of medical and aged patients
  • minor surgical procedures
  • outpatient clinics
  • basic radiography
  • pathology sample collection
  • antenatal and post natal care
Location information

The hospital is based in an Aboriginal community on a tropical Island in North Queensland - around 70 km north of Townsville. 

The island is surrounded by thirteen smaller islands and is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. 

  • Palm Island, Queensland AU
  • Locum
  • $2,573 per day
  • NOW ~ 01 Apr 2023

Job reference: JN00222006