Palliative Care Specialist - SPARTA
Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service
Date: 5 days ago
City: Toowoomba, Queensland
Contract type: Full time

Are you a compassionate Palliative Care Specialist looking to make a real difference? Join Darling Downs Health as a Palliative Care Specialist - SPARTA in Toowoomba! Provide expert care within a supportive, multidisciplinary team. Lead outpatient clinics, conduct home visits, and utilize telehealth to ensure comprehensive care across the region. Mentor and train medical students and junior staff, shaping the future of healthcare. Embrace our values and positively impact patients' lives and their families.
What Your Day Will Look Like….
As a Palliative Care Specialist - SPARTA, your day will be diverse and fulfilling. You will start by reviewing patient cases and collaborating with the interdisciplinary team to develop personalized care plans. Throughout the day, you will conduct outpatient clinics, visit patients in their homes, and provide consultations at the hospital. You will also engage in telehealth sessions, ensuring that patients in remote areas receive the care they need. Your role will involve mentoring junior medical staff, leading educational sessions, and participating in research initiatives. By the end of the day, you will have made a significant difference in the lives of your patients, supported your colleagues, and contributed to the advancement of palliative care.
You will receive a competitive remuneration package value from $368,514 (L18) up to $460,349 (L27) comprising salary rates between $100.78 (L18) and $127.77 p.h. (L27), motor vehicle allowance, professional development allowance, professional development leave 3.6 weeks p.a., regional attraction allowance, professional indemnity cover and private practice arrangements. Superannuation (up to 12.75%) and annual leave loading (17.5%) will be applied additionally to the total remuneration value.
Let's talk about you!
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits!
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
Find out more about us!
Work with Us | Rural
Work with Us | Toowoomba
#WorkDDHHS #therightfit
Occupational group Health - Medical
What Your Day Will Look Like….
As a Palliative Care Specialist - SPARTA, your day will be diverse and fulfilling. You will start by reviewing patient cases and collaborating with the interdisciplinary team to develop personalized care plans. Throughout the day, you will conduct outpatient clinics, visit patients in their homes, and provide consultations at the hospital. You will also engage in telehealth sessions, ensuring that patients in remote areas receive the care they need. Your role will involve mentoring junior medical staff, leading educational sessions, and participating in research initiatives. By the end of the day, you will have made a significant difference in the lives of your patients, supported your colleagues, and contributed to the advancement of palliative care.
You will receive a competitive remuneration package value from $368,514 (L18) up to $460,349 (L27) comprising salary rates between $100.78 (L18) and $127.77 p.h. (L27), motor vehicle allowance, professional development allowance, professional development leave 3.6 weeks p.a., regional attraction allowance, professional indemnity cover and private practice arrangements. Superannuation (up to 12.75%) and annual leave loading (17.5%) will be applied additionally to the total remuneration value.
Let's talk about you!
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
- Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
- Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
- Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
- Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
- Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.
Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits!
- Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
- A diverse work culture
- Career development
- Professional development opportunities
- Education opportunities, Study and Research
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounted Private Health Insurance
- Fitness Passport
- Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
- Generous Salary Sacrificing
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
Find out more about us!
Work with Us | Rural
Work with Us | Toowoomba
#WorkDDHHS #therightfit
Occupational group Health - Medical
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