Senior GP

About Us?

The Institute for Urban Indigenous Health Ltd was established by its founding members to provide a coordinated/integrated approach to the planning, development and delivery of comprehensive primary health care services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations within the Southeast Qld Region.

Established in 2025, Staying Deadly|headspace Deception Bay is a place for young Mob to feel safe and to belong. We provide a space where young people can gather, yarn, learn, laugh, heal and play.  The service supports Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander young people aged 12-25 years, and their friends and family, with a focus on four key areas – mental health and well-being, physical and sexual health, work and study, and alcohol and drugs.

The Model of Care delivered at Staying Deadly|headspace Deception Bay  is culturally grounded, holistic, and emphasises the inteceonnectedness of heart, mind, spirit and body. We aim to:

• Improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing, mental health, and suicide prevention outcomes.
• Improve timely access to culturally appropriate mental health care.
• Improve skills and capacity within the IUIH System of Care and mainstream health services to respond appropriately to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's mental health and wellbeing needs; and
• Provide a culturally appropriate mental health service with a strong lived experience voice, guided by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander conceptions of social and emotional wellbeing, mental health, and healing.

About the Role?

The Staying Deadly|headspace transdisciplinary care team brings together the expertise and shared experience of Mob with lived experience, as the core component of the healthcare team, alongside the knowledge and skills of mental health clinicians, doctors, nurses, Managers, and wider business support roles.

As the Senior General Practitioner at Staying Deadly|headspace you will be responsible for the provision of GP services to young people and families, and hold shared responsibility for clinical leadership functions and the quality and safety of care delivered.

Day to day duties will include:

• Provide mental health, physical and sexual health, AOD and other clinical services to clients during hours of operation of the service, in keeping with accepted best practice standards.
• Ensure that clinical care is in line with national ethical, legal and clinical standards of general practice care, as well as with regionally endorsed protocols and guidelines for delivery of care across the IUIH and Member Services region.
• Contribute to the maintenance of high-quality information in electronic record systems. Utilise patient information and recall systems to support individual client care and identify population health needs and gaps in service delivery.
• Work collaboratively with the Manager and team members from varying backgrounds, disciplines and perspectives to share ideas, seek solutions, and formulate how best to support client through collective and collaborative efforts.
• Integrate your knowledge, skills, experiences and perspectives, transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries through collective understanding and shared decision-making.
• Establish and maintain strong linkages with other health providers in the area to ensure optimum coordination of care and advocacy for the client base
• Oversee the delivery of comprehensive preventive health assessments for clients and provide leadership for the multidisciplinary team in delivery of coordinated care planning for clients with complex health and related care needs
• Support GPs and GP Registrars with mentoring and clinical advice
• Contribute to the ongoing design, development and continuous refinement and improvement of the Staying Deadly|headspace service

About You?

• Specialist GP recognition / vocational registration
• MBBS and unconditional registration with the Medical Board of Australia
• Post graduate experience demonstrating mental health and / or AOD special interest.
• Mental health Interest/interest in working with young Mob: working with young people aged 12-25 years
• Ability to work sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, their leaders and health professionals, while respecting traditional culture, values and ways of doing business.
• Eligibility to obtain provider number(s) in the required locations.
• Current Medical Indemnity Insurance

What Can we Offer?

At IUIH we recognise that we operate in a diverse community and welcome and encourage applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTIQ+ community, veterans, refugees, and people with disability.

• The opportunity to work as part of a transdisciplinary mental health team with an unerring approach to team based care, and a switch away from western, parternalistic, expert and hierarchical models of mental health care.
• The ability to work flexibility with no shift work as well as part time hours.
• No on call work required
• A range of Salary Sacrifice options including Novated Leasing, Meal & Entertainment Cards and lots more up to $15,900 Per Annum.
• Complete reimbursement of medical indemnity insurance
• 20 Days of annual leave per year with 17.5% leave loading
• Opportunities to upskill in working sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, their leaders and health professionals, while respecting traditional culture, values and ways of doing business
• A 'lived Experience' work environment allowing for training in cultural sensitivity and unique upskilling.

For more information please contact the IUIH recruitment team