Job Description
Position Summary
A full time Vacancy exists for a Rural Medical Practitioner in a remote community 520km east of Darwin.
You will be responsible for the provisions of primary medical services to the community and surrounding outstations.
Clinical responsibilities include:
- 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 p...