Medical recruitment

Education, research and training

Townsville University Hospital is at the forefront of medical innovation and specialises in tropical and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research. 

Advance your career at a health service which prioritises clinician-led research and personal development. Our health service has a dedicated research support unit and an internal grant program available for clinicians.

Our on-site Clinical Simulation Centre ensures our clinicians have the skills they need to provide world-class healthcare by delivering multidisciplinary skills-based education.

As a teaching hospital, we have strong relationships with local universities, allowing our clinicians to contribute to growing the doctors of tomorrow. 

Our health service

Townsville University Hospital caters for a diverse range of presentations with extensive specialty and outpatient services.

Its position as the region’s tertiary referral hospital makes it the major treatment facility for people with complex injuries across central and northern Queensland. The hospital treats patients from the Cape York Peninsula, across the Gulf of Carpentaria and even across the border into the Northern Territory.

Townsville Hospital and Health Service is home to one of Queensland’s two hyperbaric medicine units, is a hub for transfers and emergency helicopter and fixed-wing retrievals, offers experience in disaster and tropical disease management and has a public health unit which coordinates and supports local, state and national public health responses.

Our health service is still growing, with major development underway.

Career-long learning

We pride ourselves on encouraging our doctors to continue their education at all stages in their career. Our specialty training is coordinated within departments and through accredited specialty college fellowship programs.

Staff specialists are supported to maintain their continuing professional development with regular grand rounds, journal clubs and departmental education.

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From the Great Barrier Reef and its tropical islands, lush rainforests and the red dirt of the Aussie outback, to World Heritage listed national parks, there is something for everyone in north Queensland. 

Townsville is a modern metropolis which invites you to discover, appreciate and immerse yourself in everything northern Queensland has to offer. 

Our catchment stretches from the outback to the sea and encompasses unique communities living in remote locations like Hughenden and Palm Islands.

Find out more about life in north Queensland here.

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Contact our team directly by phone or email if you want to learn more about the opportunities available at our health service. 

If you are an overseas-trained doctor looking to relocate to north Queensland, our team can help guide you through the process. 

Eligibility

We welcome applications from experienced clinicians who meet the following requirements:

Registration with the Medical Board of Australia (MBA), supported by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). Or be able to provide a comparability assessment from a specialist medical college if employed as a staff specialist, specialist general practitioner or recognised advanced practitioner. 

Facility-specific requirements

• Curriculum vitae (CV) which is no older than 12 months
• Two references. One must be from your last place of employment and the other no older than 12 months
• Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) – documentary evidence is required against the following:
• Hep B – evidence of immunity, titre level >10.
• Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
• Varicella (Chicken Pox)
• Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
• COVID-19

You can find out more about requirements to practice medicine in Queensland, career structure, salary and training here.

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