General Practice Doctor
Job title: Doctor General Practice
Location: Hawke's Bay
Closing date: 31 July 2024
Relocation package included (up to $10,000 contribution), plus excellent starting salary with potential to increase.
Job overview
The Urgent Care Doctor is an appropriately qualified and registered medical professional with knowledge and skills to provide personal, family, whanau and community-orientated comprehensive primary care medical services to individuals. As part of the urgent care team, they are responsible for providing patient-centered, culturally appropriate, and individual holistic care to all patients.
Patients should feel that they have been dealt with in a professional, friendly and courteous manner.
The Medical Officer works closely with medical trainees and the nursing team to provide clinical guidance, assistance education and support.
Provide Primary Care Services as follows:
Urgent medical services (including resuscitation, stabilisation and assessment and diagnosis, treatment and referral as necessary);
Assess the urgency and severity of presenting problems through history-taking examination and investigation.
Recommending and, where appropriate, undertaking treatment options and carrying out/referring for appropriate interventions and procedures, including but not limited to prescribing, minor surgery and other procedures, counselling, psychological interventions, advising and education.
Referral for diagnostic, therapeutic and support services as required.
Provide timely clinical and culturally appropriate health services through -
Ongoing health and development assessment and advice.
Appropriate evidence-based screening, risk assessment and early detection of illness, disease and disability.
Management and action of provider inbox test results
Interventions to assist people to reduce or change risky and harmful lifestyle behaviour.
Family planning services, provision of contraceptive advice and sexual health services.
Working with public health providers in the prevention and control of communicable diseases for individuals and families/whanau and reporting to relevant public health providers.
Linking, where relevant, with appropriate service providers.
Referring patients back to their regular GP for ongoing care to ensure continuity.
In particular -
Co-ordinating an individual's rehabilitation process and participating where appropriate in providing recovery-orientated services to restore normal functioning;
Developing collaborative working relationships with community health services, Te Whatu Ora and non-government public health providers, ACC and relevant non-health agencies to help address inter-sectoral issues affecting the health of their enrolled populations;
Establishing links with a range of primary and secondary health care providers and developing initiatives to enable patient-centric, coordinated care that meets the needs of individuals, their family or whanau.
Improving Health Improve patient health through -
Health promotion linking to public health programmes at a national, regional and local level and utilising such programmes to target specific populations.
Health education, counselling and information provision about how to improve health and prevent disease and interventions or treatments that treat risk factors.
Organisation information
Supported by more than 70% of all General Practitioners in the Hawkes Bay area the employer was founded in 1986 and has been on its present site since 1999. The employer is a co-operative, privately owned and operated by more than 40 local doctors from the Hawkes Bay area. Doctors on hand at any time are a mix of staff doctors, locums, and rostered doctors from the local community. All of these professionals are committed to providing quality care that keeps you well and cares for you when you are unwell.
Applicant Requirements
Must have 4 years' plus of experience and be willing to relocate to New Zealand within the next 18 months