Sunshine Coast Health provides a highly tailored General Surgical Fellowship year designed to align with each fellow's unique interests and educational goals. Our team comprises of 11 general surgeons, each with advanced sub-specialty training or focused clinical interests, organized into five dedicated teams to ensure comprehensive mentorship and diverse care exposure. Fellows also gain valuable experience through rotations in our high-volume Acute Surgical Unit, fostering skill development in managing complex and urgent surgical cases. As well as elective work, opportunities exist for first on-call arrangements, fellow lists at Sunshine Coast University Hospital or Nambour Hospital and scope lists.
Commencing 3rd August 2026, you will provide high quality care for our community, with a focus on collaboratively contributing within a multidisciplinary team. Fellows will require current enrolment in a specialist training program with a recognised college or professional association, and will need to hold Specialist Registration with AHPRA before they are entitled to Senior Registrar.
Sunshine Coast Health is in southeast Queensland and extends through the coastal and hinterland areas from Caloundra in the south and Gympie in the north.
Our health service is a values-based organisation. We are committed to the maintenance of a culture in which we treat our colleagues with respect as we do our patients, consumers and the community. We respect, protect and promote human rights in our decision-making and actions.
Key responsibilities include:
Undertake clinical duties that may include inpatient services, outpatient services, procedural work, multidisciplinary team meetings, clinical correspondence, and on-call duties.
Ensure safe and timely clinical handover with both internal and external clinicians.
Ensure quality of clinical documentation to optimise decision-making and patient safety
Salary rates: $6,687.40 - $7,369.20 p.f., employer contribution to superannuation (up to 12.75%) and annual leave loading (17.5%) (L10 - L13) (temporary full-time position, 76 hrs p.f.) for up to 12 months. Applications will remain current for 12 months / or the duration of the vacancy. Applications may be used to appoint to similar vacancies for a period up to 12 months after the closing date of the initial vacancy. Please note: only applications from candidates will be accepted (applications that may result in an agency fee will not be considered).
Why work for us?
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Queensland Health employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community. We encourage people of all genders, races, ages and abilities to apply for roles within our health service.
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Sunshine Coast Health here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/sunshinecoast/careers
As a Sunshine Coast Health employee, you will receive competitive remuneration and have access to:
A wellness program;
Generous superannuation;
Flexible work arrangements;
Career training and development; and
Salary packaging.
Please note: only applications from candidates will be accepted (applications that may result in an agency fee will not be considered).
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