Vacancies
General Practitioner
About Us
Kauri HealthCare is an Integrated Family Health Centre situated in Palmerston North.
With 21,500 patients, no two days are the same with a large variety of acute, routine and proactive care required for our population. We are a high performing Health Care Home practice, and are continuously innovating to improve the way we deliver care to support our patients. As a GP in our team you will be well supported by our excellent team of GPs, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Health Care Assistants, and administrators.
In order to support the growth in our population and replace a retiring GP, we're looking for a GP to join our team on a permanent contract for 6-10 sessions per week.
We have a team of 15 GPs and are part of a multidisciplinary facility - including Pharmacy, Long Term Conditions management, Physiotherapist, Dietitian, Skin Clinic, Hearing, Mental Health and Gastroenterology. There is on site collaboration with District Nursing, Health of the Older Person service and several other Midcentral services.
We encourage Doctors with special interests to utilise their skills in a family friendly teaching practice with Cornerstone accreditation.
Kauri HealthCare is known as an innovative practice who pushes the boundaries in general practice by exploring, developing and delivering exceptional primary health care.
Our team work together and are passionate about our patients and community – we have served our community for over 45 years.
About the role
• You will join a small group of practitioners providing care for a group of patients as a collaborative team.
• You will enjoy a diverse patient mix from paediatrics to geriatrics and an exposure to a wide spectrum of treatments.
• As a team player you will provide timely, affordable, accessible, safe and consistent GP services
• Educate, coach and support whanau in their healthcare
• Give quality, up to date and efficient medical treatment and advise
• Work as a team member with the clinic staff to provide health care plans for whanau
Benefits and perks
• You will have the opportunity to complete RNZCGP fellowship and join an approved in-house Peer Review Group.
• APC and non-contact time paid, CME fund.
Skills and experience
• Practical experience in general practice (preferred)
• The ability to work autonomously in a busy clinic.
• Good clinical and communication skills
• Have sound clinical and service skills enabling you to fully utilise your experience
• Be confident in support a variety of ethnicities and cultures
• Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) Registration in New Zealand
This role would suit a GP at any stage of their career. We welcome GPEP2/3 GPs, or if you're looking for somewhere with medium-term ownership opportunities then this would also be of interest to you. We also fund practice employed GPEP1 registrars in a supportive environment with high quality teaching.
The application form will include these questions:
• Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in New Zealand?
• How many years' experience do you have as a general practitioner?
• Are you currently registered with the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ)?
• Do you have fellowship with the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP)?
• Do you have professional indemnity insurance (pii)?
If you are applying from overseas, please complete the Medical Council self-assessment tool at https://www.mcnz.org.nz/registration/getting-registered/tool/ and advise the result of this when you get in touch.
If you're interested in finding out more please get in touch and we can talk about what you're looking for. Contact our Operations Manager, Paulina Baird, 021630775 or on paulina.baird@kaurihealthcare.nz for more information.
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