Family Physician - Walkerton, Canada - Brockton and Area Family Health Organization
Brockton and Area Family Health Organization
Walkerton, Canada
Verified Company
1 week ago
Description
Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 5 to 100 hours per week
- Education: Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry
- Experience: Will train
Work setting:
- Hospital (staff position)
- Rural area
- Private practice
Tasks:
- Examine patients and take their histories, order laboratory tests, Xrays and other diagnostic procedures
- Consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
- Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
- Participate in health care policy and planning
- Deliver babies and provide prenatal and postnatal care
- Advise patients on health care
- Supervise staff
- Communicate health promotion, disease, illnes and accident prevention to patients
- Be the patient advocate
- Coordinate or manage primary patient care
- Provide acute care management
- Provide counselling and support to patients and their families on a wide range of health and lifestyle issues
- Supervise home care services
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses:
- College of Family Physicians Certification (CCFP)
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fastpaced environment
- Work under pressure
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
Personal suitability:
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
Workplace information:
- Remote work available
Financial benefits:
- As per collective agreement
Other benefits:
- Onsite amenities
- Parking available
