To be a suc­cess­ful appli­cant, you will be able to pro­mote and pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive, cul­tur­al­ly appro­pri­ate client cen­tred after hours care to the pop­u­la­tion of the Man­ingri­da Com­mu­ni­ty and the sur­round­ing Outstations.

Your role is to pro­vide client access to med­ical advice, assess­ments and emer­gency response for Man­ingri­da Com­mu­ni­ty out­side of clin­ic open­ing hours. Through this unique oppor­tu­ni­ty you will be part of an inno­v­a­tive mod­el of after-hours ser­vice deliv­ery in a remote setting.

We are seek­ing to move away from the ​‘emer­gency only’ stan­dard of remote after-hours care and pro­vide addi­tion­al access to clin­i­cal ser­vices for advice and con­sul­ta­tion in a very remote loca­tion. You will have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to be part of shap­ing, devel­op­ing and eval­u­at­ing a nov­el approach through a pilot program.

Remu­ner­a­tion Package

• Excel­lent Salary of $130,000 gross per annum + 11.5% Superannuation
• Great work-life bal­ance with the 2 week on/​2 weeks off arrangement
• Pro-rata enti­tle­ment to the annu­al Reten­tion Allowance
• Salary Pack­ag­ing options: $15,900 per annum + $2,650 per annum for Meal & Entertainment
• All trav­el from place of res­i­dence to Man­ingri­da, and accom­mo­da­tion in Man­ingri­da are provided

About Mala’la
Mala’la Health Ser­vice is a respect­ed & accred­it­ed Abo­rig­i­nal Cor­po­ra­tion pro­vid­ing ser­vices to the sea­side com­mu­ni­ty of Man­ingri­da (520 km east of Dar­win), with a pop­u­la­tion of approx­i­mate­ly 3,000 peo­ple. These ser­vices include Pri­ma­ry Health Care, Aged & Com­mu­ni­ty Care, Fam­i­ly & Com­mu­ni­ty Well­ness, Drug & Alco­hol Ser­vices. Mala’la Health Ser­vice pro­vides Pri­ma­ry Health Care ser­vices to Man­ingri­da and sur­round­ing home­lands under a Com­mu­ni­ty Con­trol mod­el.

Essen­tial Selec­tion Cri­te­ria
The role will see you work­ing in a remote Abo­rig­i­nal Com­mu­ni­ty. All appli­cants must have an under­stand­ing of, and com­mit­ment to Abo­rig­i­nal Com­mu­ni­ty Con­trol, self-deter­mi­na­tion, and the issues faced by Abo­rig­i­nal peo­ple liv­ing in remote set­tings.
To apply, please ensure that you have the following:

• Cur­rent AHPRA Registration
• Triage Cer­tifi­cate
• Cur­rent Remote Emer­gency Care Cer­tifi­cate (or equivalent) 
• Cur­rent BLS (annu­al), ALS (2 years)
• Cur­rent accred­it­ed Immu­ni­sa­tion Provider Cer­tifi­cate (recog­nised in the NT) 
• Phar­ma­cother­a­peu­tics Cer­tifi­cate (or equivalent)
• Min 5 years broad nurs­ing expe­ri­ence post reg­is­tra­tion and 3 years work­ing in a pri­ma­ry health relat­ed field in a remote con­text, with advanced clin­i­cal skills and com­pe­ten­cies applic­a­ble to remote set­tings (includ­ing the abil­i­ty to triage, work inde­pen­dent­ly and par­tic­i­pate in emer­gency calls and First Response) 
• Cur­rent Dri­ver Licence
• Cur­rent NT Work­ing with Chil­dren Clearance
• Sat­is­fac­to­ry Crim­i­nal His­to­ry Check

Vac­ci­na­tion & Immu­ni­ty Screen­ing

Mala’la Health Ser­vice is com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing a safe and healthy work­ing envi­ron­ment for all staff and clients of our Health Care Cen­tre. In accor­dance with the Nation­al Health and Med­ical Research Coun­cil (NHM­RC) Guide­lines, Nation­al Safe­ty and Qual­i­ty Health Care Ser­vice Stan­dards, and oth­er
local poli­cies, guide­lines and pro­ce­dures; we man­date that all staff abide by our Work­er Immu­ni­sa­tion Against Spe­cif­ic VPD Pol­i­cy, which will be sup­plied to all suc­cess­ful candidates.

For more infor­ma­tion regard­ing the Vac­ci­na­tion & Immu­ni­ty Screen­ing require­ments, please con­tact: hr@​malala.​com.​au

For more detailed Selec­tion Cri­te­ria, please click here to view the full Posi­tion Descrip­tion MHSAC Posi­tion Descrip­tion After Hours RAN Final .

How to apply?

For more infor­ma­tion and to apply, please con­tact Les­ley Woolf, Exec­u­tive Health Man­ag­er. Appli­ca­tions to be for­ward­ed to Lesley.​Woolf@​malala.​com.​au

Appli­cants may be required to dis­close any pre-exist­ing ill­ness or injury which may impact on their abil­i­ty to per­form the role. Details are avail­able in ection 571 of the Work­ers’ Com­pen­sa­tion and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Act 2003

Appli­ca­tion clos­ing date: 1^st June 2025.