Gove District Hospital is a busy 30 bed general hospital located in Nhulunbuy on the picturesque wilderness coastline of northeast Arnhem Land. The hospital provides Medical, Surgical, Paediatric, Obstetric and Accident and Emergency services to the mining town of Nhulunbuy and the Aboriginal communities of northeast Arnhem Land.

Medical Officers have a dual hospital and district role and are rostered to visit communities as well as providing a 24 hour service to the District. This involves receiving community calls and organising appropriate treatment or evacuation. Most Medical Officers employed have at least 4 years postgraduate training, including experience in paediatrics and emergency medicine.

There are several positions periodically available in GDH. There is a great opportunity to use procedural obstetric, anaesthetic or surgical skills independently but with some back-up from other experienced colleagues.

Depending on individual skills, doctors are placed on the Aeromedical evacuation roster as the inflight doctor when patients need to be flown either from their community to Gove District Hospital or, for more severe cases, to Royal Darwin Hospital.

There is also an opportunity to experience working with the East Arnhem indigenous people in the hospital as well as in their own traditional environment.

There are shared positions available for those who wish to work partly for a local indigenous health service and at the same time being part of the hospital medical team maintaining skills in acute care.
Over many years we accommodated the needs of senior GP Registrars who enjoyed their training time with us.

We take pride in caring for the special needs of our Aboriginal patients, employing an Aboriginal Interpreter, Aboriginal Liaison Officer and Aboriginal Health Worker

Our hospital staff work closely with local GPs and the Miwatj Aboriginal Corporation to share resources and knowledge, ensuring we provide the best possible care to the communities we serve. A representative of the Miwatj sits on the Gove District Hospital Board.

In addition many of our hospital doctors also work with the local mainstream general pactise, Endeavour Medical Centre.

Would you like to work in an environment where:

A special Attraction Benefit Package is available. In addition Retention payments are payable for medical officers working and residing in these areas continuously for 12 months, with subsequent annual bonuses also available.

Are you interested…….but do not possess sufficient experience at this stage? Specific training programs can be developed to give you those skills necessary to work in these rural environments. A combination of training at a teaching hospital and rotations to rural hospitals can be organised to provide you with these skills.