At YourCH, we provide a wide range of services, including medical, dental, allied health, social support, Aboriginal Health, and Trans and Gender Diverse healthcare. Our purpose-driven approach focuses on community development and addressing health inequalities.
Your Community Health is seeking experienced General Practitioners to join our growing Urgent Care team in Northcote. Manage a diverse range of non-life-threatening injuries and illnesses, work alongside an experienced multidisciplinary team and make a genuine difference to people in Melbourne's inner north.
We are particularly seeking GPs available for:
- Monday | 8am-3:15pm
- Wednesday | 3pm-10pm
- Saturday | 8am-3:15pm | 3pm-10pm
Take on a regular shift that fits around your existing practice or other commitments, with additional AM and PM shifts available across the week.
Part-time arrangements are also available for GPs seeking more regular hours.
Why join YourCH Urgent Care Clinic?
- $200 per hour for weekday shifts and $240 per hour for weekend shifts
- Flexible casual, regular and part-time opportunities
- Acute and varied clinical work without a traditional hospital roster
- Extended-hours service operating 8am–10pm, seven days a week
- Work alongside nursing, administrative and multidisciplinary colleagues
- Deliver accessible, community-based urgent care in Melbourne's inner north
- Salary packaging benefits available through our not-for-profit organisation
About the role
As an Urgent Care General Practitioner, you will assess and manage patients presenting with non-life-threatening injuries and illnesses requiring timely care. Your work may include the assessment and management of:
- Minor injuries and wounds
- Infections and acute illnesses
- Musculoskeletal presentations
- Acute symptoms requiring timely assessment
- Other presentations appropriate for management in an urgent care setting
You will use your clinical judgement to assess patients, provide appropriate treatment and escalate or refer patients when a higher level of care is required.
About you
You are an AHPRA-registered Medical Practitioner with full registration and confidence managing acute clinical presentations. You will bring:
- Strong clinical assessment and decision-making skills
- The ability to confidently assess, treat, escalate and refer patients as appropriate
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to patient care
- A commitment to safe, high-quality and inclusive healthcare
- Experience in urgent care, emergency or acute primary care is highly regarded.
For further information about this role, please refer to the position description (available via the YourCH Careers Hub).
About YourCH
YourCH has fostered an organisation-wide supportive and diverse team that allows staff to bring their whole self to work, both personally and professionally. You'll join a team focused on reflecting the diverse communities we serve and we will work with you to ensure a safe, affirming workplace by addressing any barriers you may experience to full participation. We offer:
- True flexibility in a supportive work environment to be yourself and balance your personal and professional responsibilities.
- Opportunities for development and training to grow your skills and career.
- Access to internal inclusion Networks like our LGBTIQA+ Rainbow Pride Network (and more starting soon).
- Eligibility for not-for-profit Salary Packaging Options including $15,900 annually and $2,650 Meal and Entertainment allowance per FBT year.
- Being an environmentally conscious employer part of the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals network.
Apply now!
Applications for this role may be reviewed as they are received so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible!
If you still have any queries about the role please contact Michael Yang (he/him), Medical Services Manager on michael.yang@yourch.org.au.
Your Community Health is an Equal Opportunity and Child Safe employer who supports inclusiveness and diversity. We are dedicated to attracting and retaining people from a diverse background, including but not limited to, those identifying as LGBTIQ, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, people from cultural and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, and people with a disability.