Senior Resident Medical Officer

Living in Newcastle:
The Newcastle area is famous for family friendly beaches, world title competitions at our surf breaks, ocean pools, world class restaurants, night life, spectacular coast walks and galleries and museums.  A short drive you will find yourself the beautiful Hunter Valley Vineyards, where you can taste wines, sip champagne and feast on cheeses. Stay overnight in the magnificent accommodation, or visit the impressive 14 hectares of stunning gardens at Hunter Valley Gardens and participate in the events.

At Hunter New England Local Health District we offer a wonderful family environment with excellent public and private schools, first-class universities and the only regional medical research institute in Australia. Health professionals across HNELHD are involved in extensive clinical and laboratory research programs, many of them in conjunction with the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI).

The University of Newcastle Hunter Clinical School places students within John Hunter Hospital and Belmont District Hospitals. The Hunter Clinical School provides high quality clinical placements and education with access to research opportunities. Students can experience a diverse range of medical experiences at different locations within the Hunter Clinical School.

Learn more about Newcastle NSW

Where you'll be working:

The Maitland Hospital
Opened in January 2022 our modern hospital is designed to continue meeting the growing health service needs for Maitland and the surrounding communities of the Hunter Valley, now and into the future.

Maitland Hospital has been built to provide patients with high quality care in a modern and comfortable environment and it embraces technology and innovation, allowing staff new, improved ways to work that will deliver better health outcomes. The Maitland Hospital offers a comprehensive range of services including maternity, gynaecology, paediatrics and special care nursery, medical service and rehabilitation, surgery, orthopaedics and day surgery. We have a busy emergency department and an adult intensive care unit as well as mental health, dental, renal and diagnostic services onsite.

Maitland Hospital is located approximately 15 minutes from the Hunter Expressway, 25 minutes from John Hunter Hospital and central Newcastle and in close proximity to the New England Highway and other major link roads.

SRMOs working at The Maitland Hospital will be working in the General Medicine, Cardiology, Rehab/Geriatrics, Oncology, ICU and Emergency Departments.

Enjoy living and working in Maitland one of the fastest growing non-metropolitan regions in Australia!
Set in an idyllic location in the Lower Hunter Valley within a picturesque riverine landscape and historic buildings. Lots of choice of affordable housing and excellent local public and private schools. Maitland is well connected by road, rail and air, is located less than two hours north of Sydney, only 20 minutes from Hunter Valley Wine Country and 30 minutes from Newcastle and its pristine world renowned coastline and beaches. Find out more about Maitland, the surrounding Hunter Valley and Newcastle regions. 

Belmont District Hospital
Belmont Hospital is located within the beautiful area of Lake Macquarie. Offering Emergency Department, Medical, Surgical, Sub-Acute, CCU, Operating Theatres, Outpatient clinics, Imaging, Pathology and Children treatment services.  

SRMOs working at Belmont Hospital will be working in General Medicine and Emergency Department. 

John Hunter Hospital
John Hunter Hospital is a major teaching hospital and is the Primary Tertiary Referral Centre for Trauma in northern NSW, covering all surgical specialties including Cardiothoracic. It includes John Hunter Children’s Hospital, one of the three tertiary Paediatric hospitals in the state. 

Learn more about the John Hunter Hospital and it facilities John Hunter Hospital | HNE Health (nsw.gov.au)  

John Hunter Hospital – General Medicine
Medical Assessment and Coordination Unit (MACU) provides acute care to patients requiring admission to any of our medical units. There are four teams of general physicians, medical registrars (specialists in training) and resident doctors looking after an average of 50 patients in the hospital. In addition to this we provide consultative advice for patients of the Surgical Services.

General Medicine outpatient services for people with complex general medical problems are available and provided by our general physicians.

John Hunter Hospital – Subspeciality
The sub speciality departments in the John Hunter Hospital provide inpatient and outpatient care, that includes both diagnosis and treatment of rare and common conditions. Working closely with multi-disciplinary teams contributing within a team treating patients will be top priority for the SRMO.

World renowned clinical research, with staff members have either academic or clinical teaching appointments in the Faculty of Health at the University of Newcastle.

John Hunter Hospital Emergency Department
Our Emergency Department is the busiest tertiary referral centre in the state and the only trauma referral centre in NSW outside of Sydney. 

Our specialist staff are focused on meeting the needs of acutely ill and injured patients, providing care for both adult and paediatric patients throughout Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Northern NSW. 

Connected to the Emergency Department is an eight bed short stay unit for emergency patients requiring further observation and assessment.

Accredited with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine for both adult and paediatric emergency medicine training and has a multidisciplinary team, including expert medical, nursing, allied health, administrative and support staff.

John Hunter Hospital – ICU
John Hunter Hospital Intensive Care Unit provides Adult Intensive Care Services and supports a Medical Retrieval Service. There is a separate Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. The 27 bed John Hunter Hospital ICU admits over 2000 critically unwell patients each year. 

John Hunter Children’s Hospital
John Hunter Children's Hospital (JHCH) is a specialised tertiary referral paediatric hospital in Newcastle, providing complex medical, surgical, major trauma and neonatal care services for Northern NSW. The Children's Hospital in Newcastle, one of three children's hospitals in NSW, will over the course of a year see almost 25,000 children and young people present to the emergency department, have 9,000 admitted to hospital and perform over 100,000 occasions of service through outpatient clinics.

Other regional hospitals part of the HNEkidshealth Network are Belmont, Cessnock, Maitland, Singleton, Armidale, Tamworth and Manning Hospital.

SRMOs working at John Hunter Children's Hospital will be working in General Paediatrics ward.

Learn more about HNEkidshealth  

What you'll be doing:
The Senior Resident Medical Officer (SRMO) role is a key medical team member who will be working closely with a team of Specialists, Fellows, Registrars and Residents in a variety of acute terms. This network role provides extensive hands-on experience in a broad range of specialities with excellent training. These roles are multi-disciplinary, team based with solid senior medical leadership and support.  Education is offered depending on your term. This is a unique opportunity for you to solidify your skills and help you gain entry to training for Colleges such as ACEM, RACP, RACGP & CICM.

Applicants with Provisional or Limited medical board registration are required to have Level 2 supervision.

Start Date for this role commences 2nd February 2026.