Specialist Consultant

GP - Emergency Medicine / SMO

Palm Island, Queensland AU

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Job Description:

Locum cover is required from 30 April - 24 May 2026.

Position Details:

  • Shift times: 0800 - 1830 | 0930 - 2000 | 1130 - 2200
  • 10-hour shifts, includes weekdays and weekends
  • On call 1:2 or 1:3
  • SMO Rural Generalist
  • FRACGP/FACRRM
  • AST in Emergency, Remote Medicine, or Internal Medicine (highly desirable)

Benefits:

  • Travel and accommodation is included.

Please note that all rates are inclusive of superannuation, taxes, and casual loading, where applicable.

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
  • $2,800 per day
  • 30 Apr 2026 ~ 24 May 2026

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