- Outstanding lifestyle opportunity.
- Full Relocation and permanent residency support
- Consultant autonomy - your contributions and hard work will be valued.
Are you a Consultant Anaesthetist based in Australia or outside of Australia who is looking for a change of pace, a job with more clinical autonomy, with a workforce culture that genuinely supports a work–life balance, and this is structured into your contract?
This Queensland city offers an enviable lifestyle that appeals strongly to UK-trained doctors. Benefits include:
- Prosperous regional city with a first class hospital and health service.
- Only 1hr 30 minutes to major metropolitan.
- One of Queensland's, leading private schools, has lots of child care options.
- Affordable housing, lots of outdoor recreational facilities, clubs and sports.
This is an opportunity to enjoy a stable, well remunerated consultant career without compromising quality of life or professional enjoyment.
Hospital & Department
Reporting to the director of anaesthesia, you will join an anaesthesia and pain service covering theatres, ICU and maternity. This health service provides care to over 300,000 people including in a large regional referral hospital where this post is primarily based . However, you will be expected to provide service at a smaller specialist facility as well (and other smaller hubs as directed), all within a multidisciplinary team context.
- 8 theatres.
- High dependency and ICU.
- 2000 deliveries per year.
- Great opportunities for teaching, service development, and research.
Job scope
Key aspects of the position include:
- Deliver first-class anaesthesia and pain services and provide expert clinical advice to colleagues.
- Willingness to participate in a balanced on-call roster.
- Demonstrating leadership in clinical governance and service improvement.
- Supporting junior doctors in respect to informal and formal teaching and supervision.
- Willingness to participate in clinical governance activities and quality improvement projects. Participation or encouragement of research projects.
Offer
This role offers a very attractive public sector consultant anaesthetist package, based on the new Queensland Health Wage agreements, published in November 2025.
- Competitive Public sector salary package of up to $557k (from July 2027) + oncalls etc.
- Relocation assistance & support with visas
- Excellent leave entitlements including 3.6 professional development leave.
- A secure, long-term appointment
Anaesthetists with the following attributes are encouraged to enquire:
- FANZCA or soon to qualify or
- UK-trained Consultants holding CCT, FRCA to qualify for ANZCA accelerated and/or ESP pathways.
- Strong clinical and technical capability, with the knowledge and skill set required to deliver high-quality specialist anaesthetic care.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively and provide leadership within multidisciplinary teams.
- Highly developed oral and written communication skills and is able to engage effectively with colleagues and other health professionals.
- Genuine commitment to quality improvement, patient safety and best-practice clinical governance.
- An active interest in education and research, including a strong personal commitment to ongoing professional development and continuing medical education.
For a confidential discussion, or to receive a detailed role description, please contact Alasdair on +447414531583 (Whatsapp, Signal, botim etc.) or alasdair@spinnermedical.com