Health care and medical jobs in the northern territory
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Australia’s Northern Territory provides more than just stunning landscapes and a laid-back lifestyle. The Territory offers supportive workplaces, multicultural communities, a real sense of adventure, and the opportunity to fast-track your career.
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Discover what it’s like to live, work and thrive in some of the Territory’s most unique and vibrant areas
At NT Health, we take care of our staff. We offer generous employment conditions and attractive incentives
As an NT Health worker, your new role will have terms and conditions that include your standard hours of work, leave provisions, allowances and flexible work practices. Learn more about our general employment conditions and leave entitlements here.
We even offer attraction and retention benefits based on certain conditions and eligibility. These include professional development allowance, studies assistance and HELP debt payments.
For more information, visit Enterprise Agreements or our Professional incentives page.
The benefits
Need help making the move? On the hunt for a flexible workplace? Learn more about our attractive incentives and benefits
Not only does the Northern Territory offer a great lifestyle and spectacular landscapes, but you’ll also have amazing career opportunities not available elsewhere in Australia.
With up to 7 weeks of recreation leave per year, you will have the opportunity to experience everything our unique Territory has to offer - and still have time to visit family and friends down south or overseas.
Other benefits may include:
- A generous relocation package depending on the commencement level and place of recruitment
- Professional Development allowance and up to 10 days of professional development leave per year
- Salary packaging
- Shift penalties
- Opportunities for remote or regional travel and exposure
- Options for flexible working arrangements
- Support for composite or dual appointments - for example, joint academic appointments with the University or Menzies School of Health Research
- Diversity in clinical experiences
- Support of strong multidisciplinary teams and clinical networks
- Career opportunities that make a real difference to the Northern Territory’s communities.
Generous packages are provided and will be discussed as part of the recruitment process. This includes relocation and accommodation support and various incentives.
Making the move to the Northern Territory has its perks. Become a nurse or midwife in Alice Springs, Darwin, Katherine, Palmerston, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy and various remote communities and receive:
- Relocation support and relocation allowance
- 6 weeks of paid leave every year
- Parental leave
- Professional development allowance
- Post-graduate qualification allowance
- Exemplary practice allowance
- Shift responsibility allowance
- On call allowance
- Composite salary allowance
- Conference and training support
- Scholarships, training and education support
Being an allied health worker in the Territory is more than a job, it’s a lifestyle. Health offers flexible work arrangements, a range of courses to grow your skills and progress your career, and an Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members.
Now you can live the life you want while working in your dream role!
As an allied health worker living in working in the Territory, you’ll be eligible for a professional development allowance.
As a health professional in the Territory, you may be eligible for:
- 6 weeks of annual leave
- Annual professional development allowance
- Remote living subsidies in some areas
- Work-life balance initiatives
- Relocation assistance
- Study or research assistance
- Professional practice supervision/mentoring.
Options for additional incentives, such as relocation assistance, will be discussed with successful applicants at the offer stage.
Other incentives are available for employees residing outside of Darwin, Katherine and Alice Springs. Get in touch with us to find out more.
Move to the Northern Territory as an Aboriginal health practitioner and take advantage of our beneficial incentives:
- 6 weeks of annual recreational leave
- Cumulative sick leave
- Scholarships, training and education support
- Flexible work arrangements
- Employee assistance program for employees and family members
Other incentives are available for employees residing outside of Darwin, Katherine and Alice Springs. Get in touch with us to find out more.
As a dentist, you may be eligible for:
- 6 weeks of annual leave
- Annual remote and retention allowance
- Annual professional development allowance
- Private practice allowance
- Remote living subsidies in some areas
- Work-life balance initiatives
- Relocation assistance
Other oral health professionals in the Territory may be eligible for:
- 6 weeks of annual leave
- Annual professional development allowance
- Remote living subsidies in some areas
- Work-life balance initiatives
- Relocation assistance
- Study or research assistance
- Professional practice supervision/mentoring
The Northern Territory has a great lifestyle, spectacular landscapes and amazing medical, nursing and midwifery, allied health, oral health and Aboriginal Health Practitioner opportunities not available elsewhere in Australia.
Establish your career in one of the Territory’s remote areas, and receive a generous relocation package based on your commencement level, employment type (e.g. full time or casual) and location of your recruitment, as well as a flexible job role that fits around your lifestyle.
Employees living in the remote areas of the Northern Territory are entitled to:
- Regular assistance with airfares to Darwin or Alice Springs for themselves and their families
- An allowance to buy food from outside of the remote area
- In addition to this, they may also be eligible for:
- Rental concessions
- Special study leave provisions
- An accommodation allowance in conjunction with fares
- Family travel assistance in conjunction with professional development
- Partial reimbursement of household contents insurance premiums if higher costs are incurred.
Looking for a job role with benefits? Working in the primary care sector comes with incentives that make moving to the Northern Territory a whole lot easier. Enjoy a competitive salary, bonuses, free accommodation* dependent on job location, and flexible working conditions. You can even develop professional skills through online webinars and gain access to extra learning opportunities, grants and scholarship options for professional development.
Receive on-the-job training for emergency, critical care and mental health and learn more about the Australian Aboriginal culture - the oldest living culture in the world.
We also offer:
- Health professional relocation grants
- Flexible working contracts
- Continuous professional development grants
- Locum GP leave cover
- Specialist recruitment packages
- Orientation grants
- Site visit grants
- Workforce development grants
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