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Lead General Practitioner - Galiwin'ku

Other Health Care

Posted: 5 Mar 2025

Location: Galiwin'ku NT

Shape Lives, Shape the Future — Join Miwatj Health!

Lead the GP team in delivering multidisciplinary primary care, urgent care, and emergency services to the Galiwin’ku community (pop. 2,500).

  • We’re one of Australia’s largest providers of Abo­rig­i­nal healthcare.
  • Com­pet­i­tive salary of $300,000 per annum + 11.5% superannuation
  • Full time employ­ees maybe eli­gi­ble for a Reten­tion Bonus start­ing at $10,000

Shape Lives, Shape the Future — Join Miwatj Health!

Lead the GP team in deliv­er­ing mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary pri­ma­ry care, urgent care, and emer­gency ser­vices to the Galiwin’ku com­mu­ni­ty (pop. 2,500).

Key Focus Areas

  • Pro­vide acute care and man­age chron­ic conditions.
  • Edu­cate and men­tor clin­i­cal staff and Abo­rig­i­nal Health Practitioners.
  • Par­tic­i­pate in health pro­mo­tion, research, and pub­lic health advocacy.
  • Fos­ter qual­i­ty improve­ment in health sys­tems and services.

Col­lab­o­ra­tion
Work close­ly with inter­nal clin­i­cal teams and exter­nal health ser­vice providers.

Super­vi­sion
Over­see clin­i­cal care, sup­port med­ical learn­ers, and guide admin staff on Medicare processes.

Make a last­ing impact in East Arn­hem by improv­ing health out­comes with Miwatj Health.

A Jour­ney Beyond Medicine

Liv­ing and work­ing along­side Yolŋu peo­ple in East Arn­hem Land offers an unpar­al­leled cul­tur­al expe­ri­ence. Immerse your­self in a her­itage where con­nec­tion to coun­try, art, lan­guage, and ancient tra­di­tions cre­ate a pro­found and enrich­ing envi­ron­ment. This is more than a job — it’s an oppor­tu­ni­ty to build rela­tion­ships, share sto­ries, and grow per­son­al­ly and professionally.

Why Choose Miwatj Health?

  • Seam­less Relo­ca­tion Sup­port: We make your tran­si­tion easy with com­pre­hen­sive relo­ca­tion assis­tance.
  • Col­lab­o­ra­tive Com­mu­ni­ty: Join forces with exter­nal Health Ser­vice Providers and our pas­sion­ate, mis­sion-dri­ven team.

Excep­tion­al Rewards and Benefits

Com­pet­i­tive Com­pen­sa­tion:

    • $300,000 per annum
    • 11.5% Super­an­nu­a­tion
    • Access to $15,900 salary pack­ag­ing + $2,650 meal & enter­tain­ment card through CBB

Com­pre­hen­sive Leave Enti­tle­ments:

  • Enjoy Annu­al leave with leave load­ing, Miwatj Annu­al Leave Trav­el Assis­tance, Fares Out Leave, and Com­pas­sion­ate Leave.

Growth & Devel­op­ment:

  • Access pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment, study leave and con­tin­u­ous learn­ing support.

Sup­port­ive Pack­ages:

  • Mobile phone allowance.
  • Hous­ing and util­i­ty pack­ages.
  • Relo­ca­tion and repa­tri­a­tion assis­tance.

Reten­tion Bonus:

  • Eli­gi­ble Full-time employ­ees may qual­i­fy for a reten­tion bonus start­ing at $10,000

About Miwatj Health Abo­rig­i­nal Corporation

Since 1992, Miwatj Health has been an inde­pen­dent Abo­rig­i­nal Com­mu­ni­ty-Con­trolled Health Ser­vice, deliv­er­ing cul­tur­al­ly sen­si­tive and com­pre­hen­sive pri­ma­ry health­care to more than 8,000 Abo­rig­i­nal and Tor­res Strait Islander res­i­dents. Togeth­er, we’re empow­er­ing health­i­er, stronger com­mu­ni­ties across the East Arn­hem region.

Essen­tial Requirements

This role involves work­ing in remote Abo­rig­i­nal com­mu­ni­ties, so appli­cants must demon­strate a com­mit­ment to Abo­rig­i­nal Com­mu­ni­ty Con­trol, self-deter­mi­na­tion, and an under­stand­ing of the unique chal­lenges faced by Yolŋu peo­ple. You must have:

  • A cur­rent Reg­is­tra­tion and Prac­tic­ing Cer­tifi­cate as a Med­ical Prac­ti­tion­er through AHPRA
  • Exten­sive expe­ri­ence in Gen­er­al Prac­tice or rural/​remote health­care settings

Vac­ci­na­tion & Immu­ni­ty Screening

At Miwatj Health, we pri­or­i­tize the health and safe­ty of our team and com­mu­ni­ties. Suc­cess­ful can­di­dates must adhere to our Staff Vac­ci­na­tion and Immu­ni­ty Screen­ing Pol­i­cy in line with NHM­RC guide­lines and Nation­al Safe­ty and Qual­i­ty Health Care Ser­vice Stan­dards.

Con­nect with us today and embark on a life-chang­ing journey.

For more details, please see the Job Descrip­tion or to APPLY at https://miwatj.jobs.subscribe-… or con­tact Recruit­ment at recruitment@​miwatj.​com.​au.

Appli­ca­tion clos­ing date: 23 March 2025