Staff Specialist (Paediatric Cardiologist) - Cairns
Date published: Aug 7, 2025, 16:18 PM
Location: Cairns Hospital and Health Service
Description
Cairns offers a unique lifestyle in the heart of the tropical north, serving as the primary gateway to northern Australia, alongside excellent work opportunities.
Duties and Abilities
* Contribute to developing a tertiary paediatric cardiology service within Cairns HHS.
* Cairns Hospital is the only tertiary children's service outside Townsville, providing services to Cairns, Cape, and Torres Strait Island areas.
* Support sub-speciality paediatric cardiology services with nursing and Indigenous healthcare workers, in collaboration with Queensland Children's Hospital (QCH), which provides cardiac surgical and intervention services.
* Provide ambulatory and inpatient care for children and young people requiring sub-speciality cardiology services.
* Participate in outreach programs to Torres and Cape HHS and Cairns and Hinterland HHS catchments.
* Care for a population including many Indigenous children in remote communities with high rates of rheumatic heart disease.
* Additional subspecialty interests, such as fetal echocardiography and imaging, are highly desirable.
Apply
Enquiries: Dr Neil Archer at .
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