• Launch into private practice at a small private mental health hospital
• 19AB exemptions available for international medical graduates
• Earning capacity $750K pa plus (full time)
• No on-call work and nurse practitioner support 
• Hybrid role either full time or part time combining inpatients and private outpatients
• Huge referral base and an “instant caseload”
• Toowoomba is a vibrant, liveable, and affordable regional city offering a family friendly lifestyle
• Equity opportunity also available

Are you looking for career progression, more work/life balance or do you want to escape big city congestion? 

We have opportunities for two psychiatrists to join us as a VMO at our new specialist private mental health hospital in Toowoomba, Qld.  The Toowoomba Clinic is well managed, has a contemporary evidence-based approach to patient care and offers a wide range of therapies to patients who are extremely happy with the treatment they receive.

Join a collaborative multicultural team which includes visiting medical specialists, doctors, a clinical psychosexual therapist, psychologists, a dietician, exercise physiologist and mental health nurses.  Applications from practitioners with an interest in either general adult, child-adolescent, older person psychiatry, or addiction are welcome. 

There are 2 opportunities available.  You can choose to operate from an established group practice (with full support provided), or you can  commence practice from a commonwealth funded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Medical Service with an expectation of supporting some of their clients relying on Medicare funding – you would be able to devote 75% of your time to privately funded patients.  

Ideally applicants will have FRANZCP, specialist registration with AHPRA we are willing to consider applications from psychiatrists with international medical qualifications requiring a Section 19AB exemption for a Medicare Provider Number granted by the Federal Health Minister as well as considering doctors from countries which are regarded as having comparable professional standards for consideration by the RANZCP to commence on the Fellowship pathway (as that supervision can be provided).

To explore these opportunities more fully please contact our Hospital Chair, Graham Higgins on +61 412 38 9993 or email your application to [email protected] 

Background on our location

Toowoomba is one of Australia’s largest inland cities.  We are located on top of the Great Dividing Range and offer an exceptional quality of life, a mild climate with all four seasons, much more affordable housing than the capital cities, excellent medical infrastructure including 3 general hospitals, great education infrastructure with numerous quality schools and a university as well as a large jet airport with direct flights to Sydney. Less than 90 minutes’ drive from Brisbane, Toowoomba has a population of 230,000 people and services a medical catchment area of 560,000 people.