About the role
Nest Newborn Clinic at Gold Coast Private Hospital is seeking a paediatrician to join our growing service. Rather than spending years building a private practice or joining a large group with limited referrals, Nest offers the rare opportunity of stepping into a ready-made role that is clinically stimulating, financially rewarding, and designed for family-friendly balance.
Working alongside the founding neonatologist, you'll care for infants and children in brand-new consulting suites. You'll inherit a steady stream of newborn families via our structured follow-up pathway and benefit from a strong, expanding obstetric referral base, an experienced practice team, and fully developed private-practice infrastructure.
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What you'll be doing
* Providing outpatient paediatric care for infants, toddlers and older children.
* Leading structured newborn follow-ups at 4 and 6 months, with ongoing care through childhood.
* Collaborating with obstetric, neonatal and nursing colleagues to deliver seamless, family-centred care.
* Contributing to service growth, education, quality improvement and (if desired) research/teaching.
* Limited on-call: occasional weekday/weekend cover to support the neonatal service, no inpatient paediatrics, all neonatal inpatients handed over to the neonatologist.
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About you
* FRACP (General Paediatrics) or nearing completion. AHPRA specialist registration (or eligibility).
* Interest in newborn/early infant care.
* Warm, collegial and family-centred clinical style.
* Keen to build a long-term private practice within a supportive, values-driven team.
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Why join us?
* Ready-made private practice: brand-new bespoke consulting suites, modern IT, administrative staff, billing & marketing support.
* Built-in referral base: 400+ newborn families per year handed over at 4 & 6 months, plus scope to grow your own general paediatric caseload.
* Excellent remuneration: consultant-level earnings (~$300k+ pa) while working part-time (~0.5 FTE), with strong potential to expand as your paediatric caseload grows.
* Lifestyle-friendly: limited on-call, no routine inpatient rounding, protected clinic time, flexible scheduling, built-in cover for leave.
* Modern setting: Level 4 SCN with advanced capabilities and experienced staff, adjacent to Gold Coast University Hospital NICU for tertiary support.
* Academic links: opportunities with Griffith and Bond Universities for teaching, quality improvement and research, if desired.
* Gold Coast lifestyle: 300+ days of sunshine, beaches, hinterland, excellent schools and family amenities.
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Next steps
Thank you for taking a moment to learn about this unique role. To explore the details further, please download our full Role Guide at It outlines our practice, the role and our values in more depth, and will give you a clearer sense of what makes this opportunity so different.
If this role feels like the right fit, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please reach out to Alyssa Ramineni, Practice Manager at We're happy to answer questions, talk through practicalities, and share more about day-to-day life at Nest. The start date for this role is flexible and would ideally be mid-2026.
We are excited to welcome a like-minded colleague and build a sustainable, rewarding service together for many years to come.