Your Opportunity
To provide high-quality clinical services and contribute to maternity services within a supportive rural team environment while benefiting from close professional links to Mackay. This role offers the opportunity to practice broad rural medicine within a well-connected service, supporting continuity of care across the Whitsunday area and the wider MHHS network.
About Proserpine Hospital
Proserpine is busy Level 3 facility providing essential healthcare services to the Whitsunday region and surrounding communities. Located in the heart of the Whitsundays, the hospital delivers a broad range of inpatient, emergency, maternity, surgical, outpatient and allied health services to a diverse and growing population. The facility supports a strong rural generalist model of care, offering clinicians the opportunity to work across a varied and rewarding scope of practice with a rewarding blend of obstetrics, emergency medicine and inpatient care.
The maternity service at Proserpine Hospital provides antenatal, birthing and postnatal care for women across the Whitsunday region, including the Proserpine, Cannonvale, Airlie Beach, Bowen and Collinsville communities. As a Rural Generalist Obstetrician, you will play an integral role in delivering safe, patient-centred maternity care in collaboration with experienced midwives, nursing staff and multidisciplinary teams. The service provides a rewarding and varied rural obstetric practice with a level of clinical activity that supports the consolidation and maintenance of procedural and obstetric skills across the full scope of rural generalist practice.
Proserpine Hospital operates a busy 24-hour Emergency Department with a volume and acuity well suited to the Rural Generalist scope of practice. The facility is supported by a 24-hour PHO roster, Junior House Officers, interns and medical students, creating a strong team-based environment where education, supervision and mentorship are an important part of the organisational culture.
About the Mackay Hospital and Health Service
The MHHS is a contemporary organisation providing extensive health services in a range of regional, community and rural settings, to a population of around 182,000 people. Our region covers Sarina in the south, Clermont in the west, and Bowen and the Whitsunday Islands in the northeast, which is an area of approximately 90,000km2.
The MHHS has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employs more than 3,700 staff. The Mackay Base Hospital is the referral hospital for our region and is one of the most modern healthcare facilities in Queensland. It is a state-of-the-art facility equipped with leading edge technology to assist us in providing the highest level of care to our patients and their families.
The MHHS respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land and sea on which we serve our communities, and pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We also declare our commitment to reducing inequalities in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as we move to a place of equity, justice and partnership together. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for all advertised positions.
Some of our great benefits on offer
Flexible working arrangements
Professional development opportunities
Education opportunities, Study and Research
Paid parental leave
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Vaccine Preventable Disease (VPD) Requirements
It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be and remain vaccinated against vaccine preventable diseases as listed on the Role Description.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
