Alice Springs Hospital Career Opportunities

Alice Springs Hospital Career Opportunities

Alice Springs Hospital  (ASH) is a 189 bed major acute and teaching hospital serving up to 60,000 people including visitors to the region. ASH provides a range of specialist services including General Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Surgery (including Ophthalmology, ENT and Orthopaedics), Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Nephrology. There is an active Renal Unit with onsite dialysis facilities and a 26 chair satellite dialysis unit. A number of consultant specialist services are provided on a visiting basis. The range of clinical work is unique, with a strong focus on indigenous health and infectious diseases.

Interns 

Up to a maximum of sixteen positions are available, each with core terms of Emergency Medicine, General Medicine, Surgery (including Orthopaedics) and Paediatrics may be offered. Accreditation is being considered for terms in Renal Medicine, Psychiatry and Intensive Care Medicine. 

These rotations fulfill the requirements of Medical Board registration and provide excellent "hands on" clinical experience in a well supervised environment.

Further information and application forms can be found on our website www.health.nt.gov.au/careers/ Click on the link to medical officers and then interns.

Resident Medical Officers

There are up to 29 positions with three to six month rotations through General Medicine, Renal Medicine, Surgery incorporating ENT, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedic Surgery, Anaesthetics, Intensive Care, Paediatrics, Emergency Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynaecology. In conjunction with NT General Practice Education, the Hospital provides support for PGY2+ s to undertake a remote term as part of the Post-Graduate Prevocational Placement Program (PGPPP).

Registrars/Hospital Medical Officers

There are over 45 Registrar and Senior Hospital Medical Officer positions available in General Medicine, Renal Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, Anaesthetics, ICU, Emergency Medicine, Retrieval Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Several positions are filled by interstate rotations from the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, The Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Women's and Children's Hospital , Adelaide, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, the SA Ophthalmology Training Program and SA Anaesthetics Training Scheme.

Posts are accredited for the basic RACGP Training Program, Advanced rural skills in Emergency Medicine, DRANZCOG, Rural Surgical Training program of the RACS, the FRANZCOG, the FRACP (Paediatrics and Adult Medicine), FACEM, FJFICM, and the NTGPE Prevocational General Practice Placements Program (PGPPP).

Copies of IELTS or OET, AMC MCQ and EICS certificates or certificate of Advanced Training need to be included with all applications received from overseas trained doctors.

Application Information

For further information on any of the medical officer opportunities and application forms please visit our website www.health.nt.gov.au/careers/ then follow the medical officer link.

For information specific to Alice Springs Hospital, please contact:

• Medical Recruitment
  phone: +61 8 8951 7989 
  fax:       +61 8 8951 7844 
  mail: PO Box 2234, Alice Springs NT 0841
  email: MedicalRecruitmentASH@nt.gov.au
• Dr Paul Helliwell
  Director of Clinical Training
  phone: +61 8 89517527 or through the Switchboard on +61 8 8951 7777.