VARIETY IN PRACTICE, ENDLESS SANDY BEACHES AND OPPORTUNITY TO REDUCE YOUR MORATORIUM
With an excellent team culture and collaborative approach, Lincoln Medical Centre is seeking any interest for General Practitioner positions, with opportunity for full time and part time employment. The clinic's patient centred focus and emphasis on promoting health, wellbeing and disease prevention resonates with the population of this expanding rural city, seeing the practice continue to grow. There is opportunity to buy in as a principle.
Port Lincoln is a Distribution Priority Area and opportunity to apply for the Five-Year OTD Recruitment Scheme.
The Role
As a GP at Lincoln Medical Centre, you have the opportunity to provide services in many special interest fields, including family medicine, dermatology, Aboriginal health, mental health and chronic disease management. You are also encouraged to develop your own special areas of interest.
As an accredited teaching practice, you may have the opportunity to supervise registrars, interns and medical students.
Standard consulting hours for the clinic are Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.30pm, leaving your weekends free. Home visit appointments can be made by prior arrangement at the discretion of the GP. Lincoln Medical Centre GP's are also given the opportunity to work in the Port Lincoln Hospital Emergency Department and Admitting Wards on a on call rotating roster. This is an option for our new GP's.
* A very attractive remuneration package is available at 65% of earnings with the opportunity to become a Partner. Enticing Rural incentives also apply.
* We will meet the salary requirements stipulated in the subclass visa that you are granted.
* Flexibility in working hours with an emphasis on a work life balance
* Supportive and experienced administrative and nursing staff to work alongside you
* Flexible patient loads
Essential Criteria
* Eligible for medical registration with AHPRA
* Minimum of 2 years experience essential
* MBBS or equivalent.
* Current emergency medicine experience
* Able to obtain credentials as a General Practitioner in the clinical domain of GP Medicine (emergency medicine).
Vocational Registration is desirable, but not essential. Ability to meet Visa requirements for overseas applicants who already meet other essential criteria
A postgraduate qualification relevant to general practice (e.g. Diploma of Child Health) is desirable, but not essential.
The Practice
Lincoln Medical Centre is dedicated to providing patients with a high standard of care whilst incorporating a holistic approach towards diagnosis and management of illness and injury.
Based in the heart of Port Lincoln you will join a team of 6 full-time GPs at the privately owned practice, who provide a range of procedural and non-procedural services. You will also be supported by an experienced team of administrative and clinical staff. The practice provides a wide range of services, including:
* Mole Mapping
* Obstetrics
* Allergy Testing
* Paediatrics
* Aged Care
* Pre Employment Medicals
* CDM Plans
You will have access to a full range of local allied health services and the recently redeveloped, fully equipped Port Lincoln Hospital provides a broad range of specialist services, including:
* Audiology
* Dermatology
* Ear Nose and Throat (ENT)
* Geriatric
* Gynaecology
* Obstetrics
* Ophthalmology
* Orthopaedics
* Psychiatry
* Psychology
* Radiation oncology
* Reproductive medicine
The Town
* Eligible location to apply for the Five Year Overseas Trained Doctor Recruitment Scheme
* MMM6
* DPA
Port Lincoln is a delightful city of about 16,000 residents that overlooks beautiful Boston Bay on the south eastern shore of Eyre Peninsula. The City has ready access to national parks, stunning coastlines, beaches and off-shore islands. It is renowned for isolated beaches, excellent recreational fishing, great surfing and world class sailing waters.
Port Lincoln can be reached from Adelaide via a 35 minute flight or a seven hour road trip.
Port Lincoln services the rural, fishing, aquaculture and tourism industries and is the main service and retail centre for much of Eyre Peninsula.
The city has six Kindergartens, a public junior primary school, Three public primary schools, a Catholic reception to year 12 school and a Lutheran reception to year 12 school. There is a TAFE college that runs a number of certificates and diploma courses across a variety of trades and professions.
Port Lincoln offers a wide range of sporting, cultural and leisure activities. These include many of the traditional summer and winter team sports as well as sailing, boating, fishing, surfing, camping, bushwalking. There is also a range of arts, theatre and music groups. Through out the year there are a range of local sporting, food and cultural events.
The protected water ways of Boston and Coffin Bays, the ruggedness of the west coast from Port Lincoln to Streaky Bay with its world class surf breaks, the offshore islands in Spencer Gulf, nearby national parks and the pleasant Mediterranean climate makes Port Lincoln a very attractive place to work and play.