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The Porcupine Medical Clinic operates as a fee for service private clinic, however the SHA is looking to recruit a primary healthcare physician to join the community and assist in servicing the approximately 850 people within the community plus surrounding area.
Practice Profile:
Practice Size: approx. 1,000 patients
Practice Type: Primary Health Care
Hour of Work: 9am 5pm (5 days per week)
On Call Rotation: This position is complemented by a rotation of family physicians (1 PHC physician and 1 FFS physician) in providing on-site coverage in the Emergency Department at the Nipawin Hospital on a 24 hour, 7 day-a-week basis. On call worked and scheduled is communicated as per the call roster (1:2).
Work Setting:
Porcupine Medical Clinic (207 Elm Street Porcupine Plain, SK S0E 1H0) / Porcupine Carragana Hospital (Windsor Avenue Porcupine Plain, SK S0E 1H0)
Job Requirements:
Languages- English
Education- Degree in Medicine, Completed Family Medicine Residency Training Program
Experience- No experience required, but considered an asset
Security & Safety- Current Canadian Medical Protective Association coverage, A valid Saskatchewan driver's license, Criminal Record Check
Credentials- Must be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan
Salary Details:
As per the Saskatchewan Primary Health Care contract pay grid.
Level 1: $301,517 annually (subject to change)
Job Benefits
-Additional incentives to be determined.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
Specialization in Family Practice
- Rural medicine
Additional Skills
- Participate in health care policy and planning
- Participate on institutional committees
Specific Skills
- Advise patients on health care
- Report births, deaths, contagious and other diseases
- Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
- Perform patient advocacy role
- Manage patient care
- Inoculate and vaccinate patients
- Examine patients and take their histories, order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures
- Deliver babies and provide pre-natal and post-natal care
- Consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' health
- Communicate health promotion/disease prevention to patients
Work Setting
- Hospital (staff position)
- Clinics
- Chronic or long-term care facilities