Rural Generalist - GP ED – Yarrabah Hospital
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Job ID. 107901
- Dates: Single Days: 20 & 23 Jan 2026, 03, 06 & 28 Feb 2026; 03 & 20 Mar 2026; Short/Multi-Day Blocks: 27-30 Jan 2026, 09-14 Feb 2026, 17-20 Feb 2026
| Duration: | 20/01/2026 - 20/03/2026 | |||
| Pay rate: | $2315 Per day | |||
| Conditions: | Yarrabah is an indigenous community located 51 km from Cairns with a population of 2550 and a median age of 22yrs old. Yarrabah ED provides 24 hours emergency services to the community and is co-located with QAS and GYHSAC the local Aboriginal Medical Service provides primary health care services. On-call is shared amongst the 3.2 FTE of SMOs. During rostered hours the allocated SMO is to attend all presentations to the department. Presentations are varied and will give you opportunity to utilise your emergency skills. The department is linked in with telehealth Retrieval Services and has onsite point of care testing and an experienced nursing team. The SMO is roster is a mix of day shift with overnight oncall. Shifts are 0800-1630 and when rostered to oncall, oncall is from 1630 to 0800. Once the SMO is on-call it is at the SMOs clinical judgement to either manage patients over the phone (low acuity) or return to the department (recall) to attend the afterhours emergency presentations for higher acuity. | |||
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