- Company:
- Mackay Hospital and Health Service
- Location:
- Mackay Region, QLD
- Closing:
- 30/11/2025
Location: Mackay region, QLD
Application Close Date: 30/11/2025
Where you will be working
The Mackay Hospital and Health Service. is a contemporary organisation providing extensive health services in a range of regional, community and rural settings, to a population of around 182,000 people. Our region covers Sarina in the south, Clermont in the west, and Bowen and the Whitsunday Islands in the northeast, which is an area of approximately 90,000km2. The MHHS has six hospitals, two multi-purpose health services and four community health centres that employs more than 3,700 staff. The Mackay Base Hospital is the referral hospital for our region and is one of the most modern healthcare facilities in Queensland. It is a state-of-the-art facility equipped with leading edge technology to assist us in providing the highest level of care to our patients and their families.
Our staff are passionate about community engagement and delivering outstanding healthcare services to the communities throughout our diverse region. Our Vision is to deliver Queensland’s Best Rural and Regional Health Care, and our Purpose is to deliver outstanding health care services to our communities through our people and partners.
About the Department
The Mackay HHS is proud of their culture and strives to live our values of collaboration, trust, respect and teamwork in the way that we work together. This role plays a crucial part in supporting the overall change agenda of the organisation and embedding our organisational values as “the way we work”. The Public Health and Rural Services Portfolio covers the following teams:
- Public Health Unit
- Moranbah Hospital / Glenden Primary Health
- Clermont Multi-Purpose Health Service
- Dysart Hospital / Middlemount Primary Health
- Collinsville Multi-Purpose Health Service
- Bowen Hospital
- Whitsunday Health Service
- Sarina Hospital
About the role
The Director of Rural Medical Services is accountable for leading, directing, implementing, planning and evaluating the delivery of medical services across all rural facilities within the Mackay Hospital and Health Service to the highest professional and ethical standards.
About the you
Essential
- Mandatory possession of MBBS or equivalent qualification from an AMC recognised tertiary institution, and Registration as a Medical Practitioner with the Australian Health Practitioner
- Regulation Agency with a current annual practicing certificate.
- Fellowship of either the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine or the Royal Australian College of General
- Practitioners (FRACGP or FACRRM or FACEMS or other clinical fellowships).
- Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (FRACMA) or substantive progress
- towards attaining FRACMA.
Desirable:
- Advanced Skills Training (AST) and eligibility for credentialing by the MHHS credentialing committee as a Rural Generalist (RG), or substantive progress towards attaining RG, will be highly regarded.
- Postgraduate (Masters level) qualifications in health services management and public health.
More information
For further information, please contact: Ms Julie Minogue (07) 4885 6761 HSQ-Recruitment@health.qld.gov.au
Applications close: 30 November 2025