Lead General Practitioner – Central Australia

Exceptional Remuneration | No On-Call | Incredible Lifestyle

Are you looking for a role that offers clinical leadership, great pay, and an unbeatable lifestyle? Join our team in Alice Springs, the heart of Australia — where work-life balance truly exists.

Why You’ll Love This Role:

• Attractive Salary Package – Excellent pay and benefits for your experience and leadership.
• Work–Life Balance – Monday to Friday hours only. No shift work or on-call.
• Unforgettable Lifestyle – Enjoy world-class hiking, cultural experiences, and desert adventures just minutes from your door.
• Great Social Community – Friendly, welcoming team and vibrant local scene — from cafes and art galleries to sunset walks at Simpsons Gap.
• Leadership Opportunity – Step into a meaningful role supporting a skilled team and shaping primary healthcare in Central Australia.

If you’re seeking professional fulfilment and an extraordinary lifestyle, this position offers both.

Location: Alice Springs, NT

Salary: Highly competitive + relocation support

Hours: Monday–Friday, no on-call

• Base Salary: $296,653 (p.a.) with extremely good extra remuneration
• Full-time Continuous Contract

Many of our remote area clinicians are attracted to working at the top of their scope and operate at a higher level of clinical acumen, using the latest technology to provide diagnostic and management advice in person and at a distance, assisting remote communities to maintain their way of life, and are committed to team based multidisciplinary care with a strong focus on social and environmental determinants of health.

Central Australian Aboriginal Congress not only offers rewarding career options but a wide range of fantastic benefits.

Congress operates a large remote footprint in central Australia stretching from Kaltukatjara (Docker River) 700 km from Alice Spring to Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) 80 km from Alice Springs.  This remarkable stretch of country takes in clinics around Uluru and Kaltukatjara, Petermann Range and West MacDonnell Ranges. This is where our clinic teams work to maintain the health of our remote community residents.  They need reliable clinical leadership that is strategic, innovative and can solve problems for remote Aboriginal health practice.

About the role

The Deputy Medical Director is a senior clinical leadership position in the Clinical Services Section working closely with and under the direction of the Medical Director to provide clinical leadership and supervision to ensure all remote clinics are delivering high quality comprehensive and culturally safe care to our clients.

The Deputy Medical Director splits their commitment to working in Clinic with a multidisciplinary team as a Senior GP providing comprehensive primary health care to clients, supervision to GPRs and providing leadership to all remote Clinic Managers across all remote clinics along with a commitment (50% of hours worked) to working in the Clinical Leadership team, with a particular focus on medical practitioners, policy development, clinical risk mitigation and continuous quality improvement with the support of the Clinical Administration team.

As the largest Aboriginal community-controlled health organisation in the Northern Territory, Congress employs a large team of GPs across our 13 clinics in the Central Australian region.

General Practitioners in Central Australian Aboriginal Congress work within a multidisciplinary team practicing interesting and complex medicine. General Practitioners provide high quality clinical and culturally safe care and work to optimise the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people. The GPs are also involved in providing chronic disease care, health checks, preventative health care, health promotion, and routine general practice consultations.

Got you interested? Read more https://www.caac.org.au/careers/work-with-congress/

now about why people come for the work and stay for the life.

For more information on the position please contact Medical Director,

Dr. Colin Marchant on 0437 522 569  

*Total effective package includes base salary, district allowance, superannuation, leave loading, and estimated tax saving from salary packaging options.

Being a culturally responsive organisation, Aboriginal applicants that meet all essential criteria will be given priority consideration.

Simply complete the application process by clicking the Apply Now button and we’ll be in touch.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are strongly encouraged to apply.