Salaried role - General Practitioner - Indigenous Service - NT - Accomodation

Position Summary

A full time Vacancy exists for a Rural Medical Practitioner in a remote community 520km east of Darwin.

You will be responsible for the provisions of primary medical services to the community and surrounding outstations.

Clinical responsibilities include:

• Provide primary medical services
• Provide public health services using a community development model to enhance health outcomes, improve services and infrastructure
• Provide an holistic approach to health care that includes care planning and case conferencing with patients who have a chronic disease
• Be responsible for the coordination of medical retrieval and patient travel services, which includes tasking Care flight aircraft and crew
• Participate in the collection and maintenance of communicare computerised client health information including Medicare billing
• Ensure that Medicare billing is optimised to its full potential to realise maximum return to the community for service development
• Work collaboratively with a range of health providers within the organization and external to the organization
• Undertake programs and tasks appropriate to family and preventative medicine and Primary Health Care within a community and health education context
• Be opportunistic in the development of health care plans for patients
• Be proactive in health promotion so that it will enhance community education and understanding of particular health issue’s

Package includes : Annual salary, relocation allowance, Professional Development allowances , Fully maintained accomodation, plus MORE!

Essential Criteria

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Vocational Registration (FRACGP
• FACRRM
• FRNZCGP)
• Full Australian Work Rights
• General Practice experience in Australia
• Passion and commitment to providing a high level of care to patients

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