🏥 Specialist Medical Practitioner - Alcohol and Drug Service
đź“Ť Launceston Tasmania
đź“… Permanent | Full-time | Day Worker | 76 hours per fortnight
Join a Team That Makes a Real Difference – Alcohol and Drug Service North (Launceston)
Be part of a passionate, high performing team dedicated to transforming lives. Based in beautiful Launceston, the Alcohol and Drug Service North offers an exciting opportunity to work within a collaborative and supportive environment delivering essential care to the community.
Our service provides both inpatient and outpatient support, helping individuals, families, and friends navigate alcohol and drug challenges with compassion, expertise, and respect. We pride ourselves on delivering person centred care that empowers recovery and promotes wellbeing.
Working closely with a statewide network of professionals, our team is committed to innovation, excellence in healthcare, and achieving meaningful outcomes for our consumers, our workforce, and the broader Tasmanian community.
If you’re motivated, driven, and ready to make a genuine impact, this is your opportunity to join a service that values collaboration, growth, and excellence.
Make a difference where it matters most.
The Role
The Specialist Medical Practitioner - Alcohol and Drug Service (ADS) operates within a supportive and well structured framework. Broad operational direction is provided by the Area Manager, ADS North, with clinical governance led by the Statewide Specialty Director, ADS.
In this role, you will:
This is an opportunity to contribute your expertise in a role that values collaboration, leadership, and excellence in clinical care.
Note: - Please refer to the Statement of Duties for all the selection criteria of this position to address in your application.
Why Launceston?
In Launceston, your time outside of work is just as enriching as your career. Spend your days off exploring breathtaking national parks, discovering award-winning wineries, or simply enjoying the ease of shorter commutes and a more relaxed pace of life.
Here, you’ll experience the rare balance of professional fulfilment and an enviable lifestyle, one that draws people from across the globe. With world class food and wine, easy access to pristine wilderness, and a warm, welcoming community, Launceston offers an exceptional quality of life.
It’s a place where you don’t have to choose between career opportunity and lifestyle, you can truly have both.
Launceston offers an enviable lifestyle without compromise.
Swim at Cataract Gorge, right in the centre of town. Commute without traffic. Finish work and be on a trail, river, or vineyard within minutes.
Details of appointment:
What’s on Offer:
đź•’ Note:
This process may be used to fill future full-time or part-time vacancies over the next 12 months.
Access to the Senior Specialist Medical Practitioner salary range $309,222 - $319,701 is subject to the successful applicant satisfying the criteria for Senior Specialist Medical Practitioner Level 1, 2 or 3 as outlined in the Medical Practitioners (Tasmanian State Service) Award
Eligibility:
Eligibility:
Note: - Please refer to the Application Guide for more information of pre-employment check.
Download the Statement of Duties and any Associated Documents
We encourage you to review the Statement of Duties, Applicant Guide, prior to applying for an overview of the duties, program, selection process and application guidance.
Statement of Duties:
Application Guide:
How to apply:
Apply Online. Please click the "Apply" button on this screen to ensure that important questions about you are answered.
You will be prompted to complete a 1-2 pages application detailing your experience, skills and knowledge as they relate to the attached Statement of Duties. A separate statement addressing the selection criteria in the Statement of Duties is not required.
*only Agencies specifically contracted are invited to provide applicants to this role
For more information
Applicants who require further information are encouraged to contact the Contact person for detailed information about the vacancy.
Name: Dr Nicolle Ait Khelifa
Position: Statewide Specialty Director
Phone number: (03) 6166 0845
Email address: nicolle.khelifa@ths.tas.gov.au
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Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellent are the key values to work in in Department of Health. listening to some of the lived experiences from within the department through some of our wonderful staff and hear about their journey in relocating to Tasmania!
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