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Clinical General Practitioners – Mparntwe Urgent Care Clinic

Other Health Care

Posted: 1 Feb 2024

Location: Alice Springs NT

New exciting opportunities in the Mparntwe (Alice Springs) Urgent Care Clinic!

  • Base Salary: $278,148 (p.a.)
  • Total Effec­tive Pack­age: $329,428 (p.a.)*
  • Flex­i­ble work­ing hours 

New excit­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties in the Mparn­twe (Alice Springs) Urgent Care Clinic! 

Cen­tral Aus­tralian Abo­rig­i­nal Con­gress not only offers reward­ing career options but a wide range of employ­ee ben­e­fits including;

  • Com­pet­i­tive salary and benefits
  • Six (6) weeks’ annu­al leave
  • Gen­er­ous salary pack­ag­ing of up to $30,000 p.a.
  • A strong com­mit­ment to Pro­fes­sion­al Development
  • Access to the Con­gress health ser­vices for you and your fam­i­ly at no cost
  • Relo­ca­tion assis­tance (where applicable)
  • Dis­trict allowance and Remote Benefits
  • Medicare Incen­tive Scheme

About the role

We are cur­rent­ly look­ing for Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­ers (GPs) to join our team. 

The Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­er (GP), Urgent Care over­sees and pro­vides cul­tur­al­ly safe high qual­i­ty health care to Con­gress clients and oth­ers pre­sent­ing to the Con­gress Urgent Care Clin­ic dur­ing the pre­scribed hour’s peri­ods agreed with the Com­mon­wealth Gov­ern­ment. The range of health care con­di­tions that war­rant urgent care will be deter­mined by this con­tract. The posi­tion works to the prin­ci­ples, val­ues and phi­los­o­phy of Con­gress as an Abo­rig­i­nal com­mu­ni­ty con­trolled health ser­vice with the aim of pro­vid­ing qual­i­ty med­ical care to those who would oth­er­wise need to attend the hos­pi­tal emer­gency department.

  • Shifts will be 12pm to 8pm Mon — Fri, and 12pm-4pm Sat and Sun
  • The GPs must have some emer­gency expe­ri­ence and be will­ing to under­take Xray train­ing if required. GPs will work with a nurse as a team. A nurse man­ag­er will be avail­able dur­ing most shifts.

Clin­ic hours are week­days Mon­day to Fri­day 12:00pm — 8:00pm & week­ends 12:00pm — 4:00pm.

The posi­tion works with­in a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary team includ­ing Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­ers, Reg­is­tered Nurs­es, Abo­rig­i­nal Health Prac­ti­tion­ers and Med­ical Recep­tion­ists. The team may involve the care of Allied Health Prac­ti­tion­ers, Abo­rig­i­nal Liai­son Offi­cers and Trans­port Offi­cers dur­ing work­ing hours. The posi­tion reports to the Med­ical Direc­tor and will col­lab­o­rate with the Urgent Care Man­ag­er in the pro­vi­sion of services

For more infor­ma­tion on the posi­tions please con­tact Med­ical Director,

Dr. Sam Heard on 0438 556 050

The appli­ca­tion will be closed once the suit­able appli­cants are found.

*Total effec­tive pack­age includes base salary, dis­trict allowance, super­an­nu­a­tion, leave load­ing, and esti­mat­ed tax sav­ing from salary pack­ag­ing options. 

Please see attached posi­tion descrip­tions PN826 1 Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­er Urgent Care for more details on these roles. 

Sim­ply com­plete the appli­ca­tion process by click­ing the Apply Now but­ton at https://​caac​.expr3ss​.com/​j​o​b​D​e​t​a​i​l​s​?​s​e​l​e​c​t​J​o​b=481 and we’ll be in touch.