Western NSW

The Opportunities

Western New South Wales offers some of the most iconic Outback landscapes and communities in Australia. It also offers lucrative GP salary packages, interesting and challenging medicine, and excellent pathways to vocational registration. Ochre Health’s origins and strong focus on rural and remote medicine started here, in the rich red soil which gives our company its name.

Ochre Health has recently strengthened our commitment to the region, having been chosen by the Western NSW Local Health District (WNSWLHD) to provide medical services in Bourke, Brewarrina, Collarenebri, Coonamble, Lightning Ridge and Walgett. This provides a great opportunity for Rural Generalists/GP VMOs interested in experiencing the diversity and unique flavour of Outback medicine. Through the Ochre-supported district hospitals and Ochre-operated medical centres, you can make a very real difference on a community level, operating at the ‘top of your medical license’ and building your skillset through the diversity and unique challenges of rural medicine.

Benefits

  • Annual packages up to $550K
  • Sign-on bonus of $25K for VR GPs  and $15K for non-VR
  • Brand new Toyota Prado or Toyota Camry Hybrid with option to buy back for $1
  • Accommodation provided
  • Incentive and retention grants available
Collarenebri – GP VMO

Collarenebri – GP VMO

  • Great location to start your GP training 
Lightning Ridge – GP VMO

Lightning Ridge – GP VMO

  • $25K incentive payment
  • 65% of billings + $2,000 on-call daily rate
  • Great practice management and nursing support

Questions?

Feel free to get in touch with Michelle


Michelle Sanford

Brewarrina

Brewarrina or ‘Bre ‘ as it is known by the locals, in far north-western New South Wales is located 765 km via Narromine and Nyngan, 797 km from Sydney via Dubbo and the Castlereagh Highway. It is an historic and fascinating town on the Barwon-Darling River. 68% of the local population identify as indigenous and the location is renowned for modern and ancient fishing.

Lightning Ridge

Famous for its opal mining and unique outback flavour Lightning Ridge attracts over 80,000 tourists a year drawn by walk in mines, opal/jewellery wholesalers and a bustling art scene. It remains one of the few places in the world where black opals can be found and has attracted fortune seeking miners since the trade took off there in the early 1900s. “The Ridge” is located 729 km north west of Sydney via Mudgee and Dubbo; 773 km via Newcastle and Muswellbrook; and 78 km north of Walgett. It is 64 km south of the Queensland border.

Walgett

Taking its name from the Kamilaroi word for the meeting of two rivers Walgett was first settled over 40,000 years ago and in recent times has become a gateway to the Opal fields and an agricultural hub.

The district around the town is known for its wool, beef cattle, chick peas, barley, lucerne, fat lambs, sheep studs, cotton and wheat. It is located 648 km north-west of Sydney via Mudgee and Gilgandra, 76 km from Lightning Ridge.