Medical Practitioner

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

As a Medical Practitioner at Clarence Correctional Centre, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering and overseeing comprehensive primary healthcare services to inmates within Australia's largest correctional facility. This is a unique opportunity to apply your medical expertise in a challenging yet highly rewarding environment, where your care and decision-making will have a direct and lasting impact on patient outcomes.

Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 16,000+ professionals across APAC and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Dayworker Monday – Friday with flexibility of full time, part time and causal, 4 weeks annual leave
• Annual leave, sick leave, and volunteer leave
• Free uniforms, meals, and onsite parking
• Access to career support, wellbeing programs, and Fitness Passport
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave with Share2Care for eligible employees

Make an impact at Serco

As a medical practitioner on the health services team at Clarence Correctional Centre, you'll make a positive impact by delivering holistic, patient-centered care to a diverse custodial population. You'll work closely with correctional staff to treat and prevent communicable and chronic diseases, provide health education, and support reintegration into the community through continuity of care.

As a Medical Practitioner in the Health Services team, you'll make a positive impact by:

• Providing high-quality medical care within a multidisciplinary team
• Provide skilled health assessments, diagnosis and treatment services to patients
• Refer inmates to external providers when care needs exceed the Centre's capabilities, and review progress and outcomes promptly
• Treating and preventing communicable and chronic diseases
• Educating patients on health and lifestyle choices
• Take responsibility for, or contribute to the clinical supervision of Nurse Practitioners
• Supporting patient reintegration into the community
• Ensuring continuity of care for a diverse custodial population
• Working closely with correctional staff to deliver integrated care

Serco is a place for you

To be successful in this role you'll have:

• Unconditional and unrestricted registration as a Medical Practitioner with AHPRA
• 2+ years of post-graduate general practitioner experience
• Be recognised as a Fellow or working towards the same with a relevant college, or vocationally registered
• Current HLTAD009 CPR or Equivalent
• Experience in general practice, mental health, drug & alcohol, emergency care, or women's health
• Ability to provide appropriate diagnosis and treatment
• Ability to effectively communicate in both oral and written forms
• Cultural awareness and the ability to work with diverse populations

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in health, defence, maritime, justice, and community services. We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans and people with disability.

By joining Serco you'll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

For help with your application or questions about the role, please feel free to contact me on or via email at 

Impact a better future at Serco.