The Queensland Government is one of the largest employers in Australia, offering stable employment, competitive salaries, and a wide range of casual, part time and permanent roles. Many Queensland Government departments also offer attractive benefits such as salary packaging, regional attraction incentives, professional development, and career pathways across all their departments. They tend to be quite generous compared to other states.

The best place to start your job search is the main Queensland Government Jobs portal (SmartJobs), which advertises thousands of roles across the entire public sector. But just like NSW, several major agencies maintain their own dedicated recruitment sites. Make sure you check them out as well if you’re targeting specific departments, watching for specialist intakes or want to apply for a job that perhaps has been advertised as well as some of the others in the sector!

Below is a complete list of Queensland Government job portals to help you uncover every opportunity, including the ones most applicants don’t know exist.

Queensland Government Jobs (SmartJobs and Careers)

Website: https://smartjobs.qld.gov.au


Scope: The official recruitment portal for the Queensland Government, covering all departments, regions, and job categories.

  • Limitations:
  • Some major agencies run their own job sites as well.
  • Graduate programs, traineeships, police intakes, and health recruitment may appear separately.
  • Filtering can be overwhelming due to extremely high volume of listings.

Department Specific Queensland Government Career Sites

These are essential to monitor manually as some roles never appear on SmartJobs or appear later than on the departments dedicated portal. If you are targeting a specific government department, look here first plus there are “extras” like graduate programs that you won’t see elsewhere.

1. Queensland Health Careers

Website: https://www.careers.health.qld.gov.au/
Covers:

  • Nurses, midwives
  • Allied health
  • Administration
  • Operational staff
  • ICT, digital health roles
  • Local Hospital and Health Services (HHS)

This is one of the biggest recruitment systems in the state.

2. Queensland Police Service (QPS) Careers

Website: https://www.policerecruit.qld.gov.au/

Includes sworn officer pathways, communications operators, forensics, fleet, IT, and corporate roles.
Best to check separately as police recruitment seems to run on a adhoc schedule and can close quickly.

3. Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES)

Website: https://www.fire.qld.gov.au/join-our-team

Covers firefighters, emergency communications, marine rescue, aviation support, and corporate positions.
Same as the police recruitment, opens adhoc and there is a limit on the number of applications in an intake so closes quickly as it seems to be quite popular.

4. Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS)

Website: https://www.ambulance.qld.gov.au/careers

Offers pathways for trainee paramedics, communications officers, dispatchers, and support roles.
Note: QAS uses a mixture of its own portal and SmartJobs, so check both.

5. Queensland Education – Teach Queensland

Website: https://teach.qld.gov.au/

Covers teachers, principals, SLPs, teacher aides, and school-based support roles.
Includes significant rural and remote incentives.

6. TAFE Queensland Careers

Website: https://tafeqld.edu.au/about/tafe-careers-hub

Roles include trainers/teachers, admin, student services, ICT, HR, and regional staff.
Often advertised separately before appearing on SmartJobs.

7. Queensland Corrective Services (QCS)

Website: https://corrections.qld.gov.au/careers/


Recruitment for custodial officers, psychologists, programs officers, admin, trades, and corporate support.
Also runs its own recruitment campaigns for correctional officer intakes.

8. Queensland Courts & Justice (Department of Justice and Attorney-General)

Website: https://www.justice.qld.gov.au/about-us/work
Includes administrative officers, courthouse staff, coronial support, policy officers, legal staff, and corporate roles.


Note some of the redirect to SmartJobs but not all, so worth checking out.

9. Queensland Public Service Commission (PSC)

Website: https://www.forgov.qld.gov.au/
Not a job site but includes:

  • Public sector capability frameworks
  • Workforce information
  • Graduate programs
  • Mobility programs

That’s the full list of Queensland Government job portals you should check regularly. Focus on the SmartJobs portal and the department specific sites this will dramatically increase your chances of finding the right opportunity. Particularly if you are attempting to land a position in one of the more “niche” departments like QLD police or Justice.