Senior Medical Officer (Rural Generalist, Procedural Obstetrics)

  Date posted: 07 Nov 2025     Applications close: 09 Dec 2025
  Company: Cairns And Hinterland Hospital And Health Service
  Location: Innisfail Hospital, Rural & Remote Service – INNISFAIL, Queensland
  Job Type: Full-time
  Contact: Dr Thomas Coombs     0740161683
Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic Rural Generalist to join our team in tropical North Queensland. Innisfail Hospital is a 32 bed acute care hospital staffed by Rural Generalists SMOs and trainees. We have a busy Emergency Department seeing 20k pxs per year. We have excellent critical care equipment and medical imaging capacity allowing advanced diagnostic and treatment capacity. Our inpatient unit has a 3 bed High Dependency allowing limited critical care capacity locally. Our Obstetric SMOs work with MGP midwives delivering > 200 babies per year with a LCSC rate of 25%. A collaborative environment exists with weekly multidisciplinary antenatal case conference and monthly multidisciplinary instrumental birth case review. Apply Now! 

As a Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service employee, not only will you receive competitive remuneration, you will also have access to: 

  • Generous superannuation
  • Salary packaging
  • Annual incremental increases
  • Career training and development
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Wellness programs 

Why choose Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service? 
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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   

Enquiries: 
  Dr Thomas Coombs     

Job Ad Reference:   CAH668235 

Application Details:  
https://apply-springboard.health.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-CAH668235

Closing Date:   11th December 2025