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Queensland Health
Who is Queensland Health?
Queensland Health, Australia is the State Government run health department committed to providing a range of services to achieve good health and wellbeing for all Queenslanders. With over 75 000 staff, Queensland Health is the third largest employer in Australia.
Through a network of 178 hospitals and healthcare facilities across the state, Queensland Health delivers a range of integrated services including:
- Hospital inpatient, outpatient and emergency services
- Acute and community mental health services
- Primary healthcare in community health settings and population health units
- Chronic disease management in hospitals and community health centres.
From large technologically advanced tertiary hospitals to community centres across the state, Queensland Health offers exciting career pathways and employment opportunities for skilled health professionals including:
- Medical practitioners – emergency, rural medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, anaesthetics general medicine
- Nurses – midwifery, aged care, paediatric and neo-natal, critical and emergency care
- Allied health professionals – occupational therapy, speech and language therapy • mental health professionals – psychology, psychiatry, mental health nursing, social work
- Oral health professionals – dentistry, oral health therapy, prosthetics
Why is Queensland Health recruiting?
Queensland is the preferred location for many new arrivals each year. Queensland Health is expanding its acute health services across the state to cater for the increasing demand from a rapidly growing population. This equates to a growth in the opportunities—and incentives—for skilled health professionals to make the move.
In addition to recruiting more health professionals, the Queensland Government’s record health spend enables us to press forward with our record $6 billion health infrastructure program. This program, the largest in Australia’s history, is delivering new and upgraded state-of-the-art health facilities across the state.
The top five reasons to make your career move Down Under with Queensland Health:
- Competitive remuneration packages
- Dream Queensland lifestyle in idyllic locations
- Unsurpassed professional development opportunities
- Friendly and flexible work environments
- World-class training and education opportunities.
Remuneration packages with Queensland Health can include:
- Salary sacrificing options
- Generous leave loading and employer superannuation contribution
- Paid annual leave with the option to ‘purchase’ up to four weeks additional leave per annum
- Additional incentives to work in rural and remote locations
- 14 weeks paid maternity leave
- Professional development.
Queensland Health invites skilled health professionals to express their interest in a range of exciting clinical career opportunities in major metropolitan cities, growing coastal regional towns and unique rural and remote locations
Helen Garbutt never looked back!
Helen Garbutt moved from the UK to Australia with the help of Queensland Health Recruitment. Read her story.
For more information about what Queensland Health can offer or to lodge your unique Expression of Interest visit www.health.qld.gov.au/workforus
