The Team
Royal Hobart Hospital is Tasmania’s largest hospital and major referral centre. As the major clinical teaching and research centre, RHH collaborates with the University of Tasmania and other institutions. All our services work closely together to focus on delivering excellence in healthcare to achieve improved outcomes for our consumers, our workforce, and the Tasmanian community.
The Royal Hobart Hospital is a tertiary referral centre for the State and provides tertiary care in most major areas of medicine. It offers a full range of laboratory and medical imaging services.
The Department of Paediatrics has a 24-bed Paediatric inpatient unit with a High Dependency Unit, and a 16 bed Adolescent unit. It has a dedicated Outpatient and Ambulatory Care Unit, Specialist Clinics in Paediatric Oncology, Diabetes, Cystic Fibrosis, eating disorders, Allergy, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Rehab, General Paediatrics, Continence, and more.
The Neonatal and Paediatric intensive care service is an integral part of the Department of Paediatrics. It is the only Level 3 neonatal intensive care service and the only Paediatric intensive care service in the State. The Neonatal/Paediatric Retrieval Service is coordinated from the Royal Hobart Hospital.

The Role

- Provide paediatric and adolescent services to inpatients and outpatients at the Royal Hobart Hospital, and outreach locations
- Take part in the general paediatric on-call roster including weekends (approximately 1:5)
- Share the adolescent in-patient roster, during business hours only (approximately 1:3) – including adolescent eating disorders, adolescent mental health, and complex adolescents with behavioural and social concerns
- Supervision of trainees (Medical students, Residents, and Registrars) in all settings
- Participate in continuous quality improvement activities including service delivery, teaching and research

Why Tasmania

The Department of Health Tasmania oversees various hospitals across the state, including the Royal Hobart Hospital,



Launceston General Hospital, Northwest Regional Hospital, and Mersey Community Hospital, as well as district hospitals and ambulance services. Additionally, it provides community health, mental health, and primary healthcare services to the Tasmanian community through more than 300 sites.
Tasmania, Australia's only island state, offers unparalleled natural beauty and a luxurious lifestyle. Pursuing your health career in Tasmania’s public health system means building solid connections with colleagues and patients. It also means embracing a lifestyle where you can enjoy extraordinary experiences outside of work while making a significant impact on the community during work.

Hobart

Hobart has become a cultural centre, with year-round art and music events and restaurants serving gourmet local produce. Excellent educational opportunities and easy access to outdoor pursuits make this the perfect place to raise a family. Enjoy a more tranquil, community-orientated lifestyle while remaining only a short flight from the busy mainland.
Experience beautiful beaches and pristine alpine regions where you can enjoy a vast variety of sports and outdoor activities to suit everyone on the doorstep of a bustling capital city while enjoying the advantages of a short commute and excellent work-life balance.
In Tasmania you will be encouraged to be yourself, to learn, to grow and to develop meaning in your work. You will have a powerful connection to your patients and your colleagues, and the community will encourage your success. Our isolation helps drive a culture of creation and human connection, which feels both old fashioned and… like the only future worth pursuing.

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Details of appointment
Permanent, full time, day worker position, working up to 76 hours per fortnight, commencing from December 2026.
We are open to two applicants who each want part time, as long as each applicant fulfills all roles (inpatient/outpatient/paediatric/adolescent/on-call)

- notwithstanding hours to be negotiated with the successful applicant

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📌 Staff Specialist / Senior Lecturer (513827) (Queensland)
🏢 Department of Health, Tasmania
📍 Queensland