Rural Medical Practitioner: Primary Care & Community Health

HealthcareLink Pty Ltd.; Darwin; Remote; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation allowance

Fully maintained accommodation

Professional development allowances

Job summary

HealthcareLink Pty Ltd. invites applications for a Rural Medical Practitioner to serve a remote community 520km east of Darwin. This full-time role covers primary medical services in collaboration with local health providers.

You will deliver care planning, coordinate medical retrievals, and contribute to Medicare billing while promoting health education. Relocation and fully maintained accommodation are included.

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• FRACGP, FACRRM, FRNZCGP are essential GP qualifications.
• Full Australian work rights required.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Strong communication

Education

FRACGP

FACRRM

FRNZCGP

Job description

HealthcareLink Pty Ltd. invites applications for a Rural Medical Practitioner to serve a remote community 520km east of Darwin. This full-time role covers primary medical services in collaboration with local health providers.

You will deliver care planning, coordinate medical retrievals, and contribute to Medicare billing while promoting health education. Relocation and fully maintained accommodation are included.