Senior Dental Officer (Cooktown)

🦷 Full-scope dentistry with real variety, set against a coastal lifestyle surrounded by reef, rainforest and community.
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🪥 Senior Dental Officer | Cooktown

Permanent Full-Time

📞 Ready for a role that feels like a sea change with real purpose? Let's talk.
Dr Thomas Meath, 04•• ••• 393 would love to hear your story and answer any questions about the role.

Tell me more…

This is a diverse rural and remote dental role based in Cooktown, where your skills are used across clinic, outreach and regional services.

You will deliver advanced general dental services across Cooktown and surrounding Cape York communities, with outreach to nearby locations as required. You will also support service continuity across the region, including opportunities to provide backfill across other base clinics such as Weipa, Thursday Island and surrounding services. This is a role for a clinician seeking breadth of scope, clinical autonomy and the opportunity to work at the centre of rural and remote oral health service delivery.

Why this role?

Because you want a role that goes beyond day-to-day dentistry.

You will work at full scope as a senior clinician, managing a varied and complex caseload across geographically diverse communities where access to care is limited and your expertise makes a real difference every day. You'll be part of a service that values flexibility, initiative and genuine rural generalist practice.

If you're looking for routine, this isn't it. If you're looking for variety, autonomy and meaningful practice, this is exactly it.

Putting your skills into practice

You will deliver high-quality oral health care across clinic and outreach settings, support service development across the region, and contribute to strengthening sustainable dental services in remote Queensland. You will work independently, travel across surrounding communities, and adapt your practice to meet diverse patient needs - supported by a committed regional team.

You'll thrive here if you…

• Enjoy full-scope dentistry with real variety
• Are confident working independently in regional settings
• Value meaningful clinical work in close-knit communities
• Are open to outreach and flexible regional practice

What we offer

• Base salary: $158,532 - $170,285 p.a.
• Workplace benefits | Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service 
• 12.75% employer superannuation
• Salary and benefits | Careers (health.qld.gov.au) 
• Accommodation support + relocation incentives
• Professional Development: Our training is recognised as some of the best in the world 
• Generous leave entitlements including 17.5% annual leave loading

Life in Cooktown

Cooktown offers a rare blend of coastal living, history and community connection. Wake up to ocean views, enjoy a short commute, and work in a region surrounded by natural beauty - from rainforest to reef. Here, your work is closely connected to the community, and your contribution is genuinely valued.

You will experience:

• Coastal and tropical living with access to the Great Barrier Reef
• Rich Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and heritage
• Strong community connection and supportive lifestyle
• A relaxed pace of life with real work-life balance

Ready for something different?

Find out about Torres and Cape HHS and the Torres Strait and Cooktown and Cape York regions on the Tropical North Queensland website.

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How do I apply? Applications should be submitted ONLINE via the Smart Jobs and Careers website.

Please no unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.