General Practitioner FIFO - Middlemount QLD (JOB -10003718)
- Middlemount, QLD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- $21,600 for 14 days
- 3 bedroom fully furnished house
- Car provided from Emerald airport
- Airfares provided
- Travel on the Sunday and leave on the Sunday fortnight
Monday - Friday 8am - 5:30pm
Saturday - Sunday 8am - 12pm
Public Holidays 8am - 12pmPractice Information:
Solo GP with receptionists, Registered Nurse (full-time), Enrolled Nurse (working under a grant from the NQPHN), Phlebotomist, Chronic Care Coordinator (part-time) and Practice Manager. Ambulance and paramedic are located in town and hospitals are an hour or so away.The Work:
- Family orientated
- Mums and children
- Visiting famers
- Mine workers occasionally but mainly when they are off work and living in town
- 3-4 patients an hour
- Flexible working hours
- Clinic closes for lunch
- Slow pace
- Will need to do coal board medicals but the nurse does most the work (may need to do short qualification)
- Must hold the phone for after-hours but no home visits, anyone needs you the ambulance is normally called
- About 2-4 CDM patients a day – all done by Nurse
- Vocationally registered General Practitioner with AHPRA
Middlemount is a mining town with over 1,300 permanent residents and the clinic's patients are mainly young families. Other information:
- Population 1900
- 310 families
- Either husband or wife as the family unit or a married couple with 3+ kids
- 400 children under 18
- Mining town
- Very much like a little metropolitan suburb but in the middle of central Queensland
- People are nice
- Appreciate the medical service
- Great fitness centre, golf course, swimming pool and a few good restaurants
- More stats https://abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/SAL31825
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