• Job Cat­e­go­ry: Clin­i­cal Services
• Job Type: Full Time

Wurli-Wurlin­jang Health Ser­vice is an Abo­rig­i­nal Com­mu­ni­ty Con­trolled Organ­i­sa­tion deliv­er­ing pri­ma­ry and clin­i­cal health care ser­vices to the Abo­rig­i­nal peo­ple in Kather­ine and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties. Wurli prides itself on deliv­er­ing a range of health and well­be­ing ser­vices to the com­mu­ni­ty in a style and man­ner that makes clients feel wel­come and com­fort­able. Ser­vices include acute and gen­er­al care, chron­ic dis­ease, Women’s & Chil­dren health, men’s health, alco­hol and oth­er drugs, social and emo­tion­al well­be­ing and client sup­port services.

The role of a Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­er at Wurli is to pro­vide evi­dence based and cul­tur­al­ly appro­pri­ate pri­ma­ry health care ser­vices to clients of our ser­vice and to con­tribute to the devel­op­ment and sus­tained oper­a­tion of a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary pri­ma­ry health care team. Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­ers are expect­ed to deliv­er med­ical ser­vices in accor­dance with Wurli poli­cies and pro­ce­dures, guid­ed by CARPA stan­dard treat­ment man­u­al and applic­a­ble leg­is­la­tion and reg­u­la­tions and to ensure stan­dards are met in accor­dance with the Aus­tralian Gen­er­al Prac­tice Accred­i­ta­tion Lim­it­ed (AGPAL).

Key Require­ments of Ser­vice Deliv­ery include:-

• Pro­vide evi­dence based clin­i­cal care in a cross cul­tur­al set­ting to clients in col­lab­o­ra­tion with a team that includes Reg­is­tered Abo­rig­i­nal Health Prac­ti­tion­ers, Reg­is­tered Nurs­es and oth­er allied health professionals.
• Pro­vide edu­ca­tion and clin­i­cal sup­port to oth­er team members
• Deliv­er ser­vices in a man­ner that respect and hon­our clients as cen­tral deci­sion mak­ers in their health care
• Com­plete com­mu­ni­ty, home care , aged care and school edu­ca­tion­al vis­its as required
• Main­tain pro­fes­sion­al prac­tice protocols
• Liaise with region­al Abo­rig­i­nal agen­cies, com­mu­ni­ty health clin­ics, hos­pi­tals, rel­e­vant gov­ern­ment agen­cies and oth­er appro­pri­ate staff to ensure clients have access to rel­e­vant ser­vices and pro­grams as required
• Active­ly encour­age client/​family/​community to engage in prac­tices con­ducive to opti­mis­ing health. Par­tic­i­pate in com­mit­tees and work­ing groups to sup­port the inte­gra­tion of acute care.

Key Fea­tures of the Role:-

• Based in Kather­ine, North­ern Territory
• Works along­side a ded­i­cat­ed pri­ma­ry health­care and well­be­ing teams. In so doing, demon­strates respect for oth­er allied health pro­fes­sion­al roles.
• Super­vi­sion of train­ing health pro­fes­sion­als includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to GP Reg­is­trars and Med­ical Students.
• An ordi­nary work­ing week of 37.5 hours; Mon­day to Friday.

Appli­cants must be able to demonstrate:

• Med­ical Degree / Voca­tion­al­ly Reg­is­tered Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­er (VRGP)
• Cur­rent AHPRA Registration
• Cur­rent Crim­i­nal His­to­ry Check
• Work­ing with Chil­dren Clearance
• A min­i­mum of three (3) years’ expe­ri­ence in gen­er­al practice
• Pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence in work­ing in a cross cul­tur­al ser­vice envi­ron­ment, par­tic­u­lar­ly in Aus­tralian Abo­rig­i­nal and Tor­res Strait islander health care
• Ide­al­ly have Accred­i­ta­tion as a GP Reg­is­trar Supervisor

For fur­ther details regard­ing this posi­tion please refer to the Posi­tion Pro­file. To APPLY https://​www​.wurli​.org​.au/​jobs/…

Please ensure your appli­ca­tion includes:-

• a com­plet­ed online Employ­ment Appli­ca­tion Form
• cur­rent resume of cur­ricu­lum vitae (cv)
• a cov­er let­ter / email which pro­vides a clear and con­cise overview of your abil­i­ty to meet the key require­ments of the role (pre­req­ui­sites, qual­i­fi­ca­tions / expe­ri­ence and competencies)

Whilst we do not require appli­cants to address spe­cif­ic selec­tion cri­te­ria we do ask appli­cants to ensure that their resume and sup­port­ing cov­er let­ter con­tain infor­ma­tion that address­es the key require­ments of the role. Appli­cants must be ful­ly reg­is­tered to prac­tice in Aus­tralia, via AHPRA, and pro­vide evi­dence of their AHPRA reg­is­tra­tion with their sub­mit­ted application.

To apply for this job please sub­mit your online application.

If you have any queries regard­ing this posi­tion please con­tact a mem­ber of the Human Resource team on 08 8972 9129 or email hr@​wurli.​org.​au