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Saskatchewan Health Authority (Kelsey Trail) has three hospitals with District Hospitals designation (Melfort, Nipawin, and Tisdale) and three hospitals with a Community Hospital designation (Porcupine Plain, Hudson Bay, Kelvington). Currently, there are four sites in the area with primary health care teams in place and the area offers the full range of community health services.
For family physicians who are interested in a challenging locum opportunity and to enjoy an exceptional quality of life in the recreational paradise of northeastern Saskatchewan!
Contract Summary:
Daily Rates: Appropriate grid rate
In Fee for Service communities- bill MSB for weeknight/ weekend coverage (bill Fee for Service ER codes which will be turned back to the SHA (Kelsey Trail))
Locums when doing ER call attached to their clinic day do not receive any additional compensation other than ERCP stipend
Travel: $0.51/Km mileage rate and $20.00/hour for travel time (from SHA (Kelsey Trail) border to destination)
SHA (Kelsey Trail) pays all administrative, accounting and any other expenses
SHA (Kelsey Trail) provides accommodations at all locations outside of the locums host community
Incentives: $11,000 signing bonus with a $10,000 retention bonus after the minimum 160 days has been completed (within the terms of the contract).
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
Job Benefits: Turnkey practice - clinics in each location completed with clinic staff, patient files, equipment and supplies.
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
- Perform and assist in surgery
- 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