Ready for a rewarding career move and an adventurous lifestyle? If you’re excited about a role that combines teamwork, diverse clinical challenges, and professional growth, we’d love to have you on our team as our new Senior Podiatrist. Apply today and make a meaningful impact in a supportive and dynamic environment!

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What your day will look like…

• Collaborative Team Environment: You'll be part of a vibrant team of podiatrists, ranging from early career to seasoned professionals. Together, you'll share knowledge, support each other, and work towards common goals. You will be Collaborating with team members working across facilities, including rurally.
• Always Connected: Enjoy the comfort of knowing you have a network of dedicated team members around you and across the State. Whether you need guidance or a sounding board, support is always readily accessible.
• Varied and Engaging Workload: Embrace a diverse range of tasks, including exciting quality improvement projects that keep your role dynamic and rewarding. Working across inpatient and outpatient settings, with orthopaedic and diabetes clinics, in acute high risk foot care.
• Broad Clinical Exposure: Work with patients presenting with a wide array of conditions, offering you the chance to develop and refine a comprehensive set of clinical skills.
• Integrated Multidisciplinary Team: Experience the collaborative spirit of working within a multidisciplinary team. See firsthand how nurses, doctors, and other health care professionals come together to achieve exceptional patient outcomes.
• Mentorship and Growth: Play a key role in supervising and mentoring podiatrists and clinical assistant staff, helping them develop their skills while also fostering your own leadership abilities.

Why join our team at Darling Downs Health?

• Comprehensive Insurance Coverage: Enjoy peace of mind with professional indemnity insurance provided as part of your role.
• Competitive Salary with Guaranteed Increases: Benefit from a competitive salary structure with guaranteed increases, ensuring your compensation grows with your career.
• Salary Packaging Options: Take advantage of salary packaging to maximize your financial benefits and make the most of your earnings.
• Invest in Your Growth: Take advantage of professional development leave and an allowance dedicated to your ongoing education and training.
• Higher Education Incentives: You might qualify for a higher education incentive allowance, further supporting your commitment to continuous learning.
• Dedicated Supervision: Benefit from professional clinical supervision that meets AHPRA requirements, including all necessary elements of the clinical registrar program, if applicable.
• Expansive Career Opportunities: Explore diverse career and learning opportunities that will grow alongside the exciting development of our new Toowoomba Hospital.

Balanced Work Life: Enjoy work hours that may include weekend work,  and help you maintain a healthy work-life balance. 

Why Us?

Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect.  DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.

Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.

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Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

For more information about Darling Downs Health, please go to www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Candidate Application Guide (PDF, 198KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  DD2501615131 Role Description (PDF, 500KB)
  Role Description