Medical Officer

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

As a Medical Officer at Acacia Prison, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering and overseeing comprehensive primary healthcare services to inmates within Western Australia’s largest correctional facility. This is a unique opportunity to apply your medical expertise in a challenging yet highly rewarding environment, where your care and decision-making will have a direct and lasting impact on patient outcomes.

Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 16,000+ professionals across APAC and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Flexible working hours 
• Competative salary 
• Free uniforms, meals, onsite gym and parking
• A variety of lifestyle discounts through our Benefits program including discounts with Apple, Qantas, Hoyts Cinemas and more!

Make an impact at Serco

As a Medical Officer on the health services team at Acacia Correctional Centre, you’ll make a positive impact by promoting the rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates, ensure the safety and security of inmates and the community and provide a respectful environment to inmates. This is a casual role, Monday to Friday, 2 days a week(flexible days)

As a Medical Officer in the Health Services team, you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Providing high-quality medical care within a multidisciplinary team
• Refer inmates to external providers when care needs exceed the Centre’s capabilities, and review progress and outcomes promptly
• Provide skilled health assessments, diagnosis and treatment services to inmates 
• Educating inmates on health and lifestyle choices
• Take responsibility for, or contribute to the clinical supervision of Nurse Practitioners/Clinical placements
• Supporting patient reintegration into the community
• Ensuring continuity of care for a diverse custodial population
• Working closely with correctional staff to deliver integrated care

To be successful in this role you’ll have:

• Unconditional and unrestricted registration as a Medical Practitioner with AHPRA
• Possess a degree in Medicine from a recognised tertiary institution
• Be recognised as a Fellow or working towards the same with RACGP
• Current Life Support certification/ALS 
• Experience in Primary Care, Mental Health, Drug & Alcohol and Emergency care 
• Ability to provide appropriate diagnosis and treatment
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to effectively communicate in both oral and written forms
• Cultural awareness and the ability to work with diverse populations

As a fast-growing and successful global company, Serco’s services span across Justice, immigration, Defence, Space, Customer Services, Health, and Urban Mobility. In joining us, you’ll be part of a supportive culture with trusted leaders who will help you achieve your goals. You will also appreciate a flexible approach to work-life management, supported by long-term government-backed contracts.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

At Serco, we bring together the right people, technology, and partners to create impactful solutions addressing some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges. We focus on serving governments across the globe, touching millions of lives in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong.

If you would like to find out more before applying, please feel free to contact Barbara Swart via email - barbara.swart@serco-ap.com or call: 08 8432 2510 for a confidential chat, we would love to hear from you.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans, and people with disabilities. By joining Serco, you’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues passionate about diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Impact a better future at Serco