Staff Specialist Neonatology

**Job no**: 503757
**Work type**: Fixed Term, Permanent
**Location**: South Brisbane
**Categories**: Medical Officers

Mater Mothers’ Hospital has an exciting opportunity available for a **Staff Specialist Neonatologist -** **Locum** to join the Neonatology team in the Mater Neonatal Critical Care Unit. This is a maximum-term position, full-time at 40 hours per week or part time until **3 May 2026.**

Our world-class quaternary maternity facility is located in Brisbane’s South Bank precinct and is the largest facility of its kind in Australia. With a co-located research institute, clinical school and Harvard-affiliated simulation centre, Mater is recognised as a leader in maternity, neonatal and women’s health care. The Mater Mother’s Hospitals NCCU is a 79-cot level 6 quaternary referral unit servicing both public and private funded patients, managing more 1800 to 2000 neonatal admissions and 850 intensive care admissions each year, plus at least 100 neonatal retrievals and 150 back transfers.

The Neonatal Critical Care Unit (NCCU) consists of 47 intensive care cots and 32 special care cots. All facets of neonatal/perinatal care are provided, including care of infants with extreme prematurity, unwell term infants, infants requiring neonatal surgery and those with congenital heart disease, as well as multidisciplinary follow up clinics. Mater Mother’s Hospital, South Brisbane is a regional referral centre for fetal abnormalities. Situated adjacent to the Queensland Children’s Hospital, Mater provides highly specialised and complex care as a perinatal tertiary referral centre, the south-east and central Queensland surgical referral centre, and the Queensland cardiac referral centre.

There is the opportunity for involvement in neonatal retrieval through NeoRESQ providing clinical advice and transport coordination for babies from central and southern Queensland as well as northern New South Wales.

**Commensurate with experience plus superannuation and**access to not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900** +**access to many staff benefits

**What you’ll be doing**

This position provides an exciting opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team of skilled and experienced neonatal clinicians providing clinical care to over 150 babies admitted to the Mater every month. You will be leading a team of neonatal nurse practitioners, neonatal trainees, and registrars in one of Australia’s busiest and most clinically diverse neonatal unit. This will involve providing family-centred care to babies and families in our three neonatal critical care unit (NCCU) cohorts (cardiac and surgical intensive care, preterm medical intensive care, and special care), as well as care for babies at delivery and on the postnatal floors and outpatient follow up and antenatal counselling.

For this role, we are seeking an individual who is motivated by and experienced in all facets of clinical neonatal/perinatal medicine, including specialist experience in a tertiary perinatal centre as well as experience in the care of infants with cardiac and surgical conditions. Suitable applicants will have experience in education, teaching and supervision, research and quality improvement, as well as experience in the aspects of clinical governance expected for a staff specialist.

**About you**

Suitable applicants will have:

- Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Medical Specialist within the field of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) in Neonatal/ Perinatal Medicine (or equivalent)

**Preferred qualities**:

- Previous experience as a neonatologist caring for babies with surgical conditions and congenital heart disease
- Experience and/or qualifications in research, education, clinical governance and/or quality improvement

**Why join us?**

Mater is Queensland’s largest not-for-profit healthcare provider, delivering exceptional care to nearly 700,000 patients each year across 11 (soon to be 12) hospitals. We’re leaders in healthcare, education, fundraising & philanthropy and research — and it’s our people who make the difference.

We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our team and help shape the future of care. At Mater, you’ll be part of a purpose-driven organisation that values innovation, compassion, and excellence.
- **Increase your take-home pay** with generous salary packaging options, including meal and entertainment benefits
- **Grow your career** with access to industry-leading training and professional development through Mater Education
- **Wellbeing support** through our Employee Assistance Program and on-site pastoral care teams
- **Access a range of health and wellbeing services** with a corporate discount on private health insurance
- **Exclusive discounts** across dining, retail, travel, accommodation (just to name a few)
- **Stay active** with unlimited access to discounted gyms via the Fitness Pa