Family Practitioner/General Practitioner

Health Match BC

$150K — $250K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Must be a board-certified or eligible family physician.
  • Experience or interest in caring for frail elderly patients in a long term care setting.
  • Ability to work flexibly, supplementing other family practice work with LTC responsibilities.
  • Willingness to engage with an interdisciplinary care team and contribute to holistic resident care.
  • Commitment to meeting five best practice expectations including proactive visits, medication reviews, care conferences, on-call support, and thorough documentation.

Responsibilities

  • Provide comprehensive, resident-centered care in a long term care home setting.
  • Conduct regular proactive visits and on-site medication reviews.
  • Attend care conferences and participate in shared after-hours care programs.
  • Engage in mentoring activities, LTC-specific events, and quality improvement projects.
  • Ensure accurate and up-to-date chart documentation as part of best practice requirements.

Benefits

  • Join a supportive physician community with a strong interdisciplinary team.
  • Participate in the Long Term Care Initiative with paid mentorship and sessional payments for events and quality projects.
  • Receive additional payments for participation in the after-hours care program ($1,000 for weekday and $1,400 for weekend shifts).
  • Enjoy the flexibility to set panel size and schedule in collaboration with care home leadership.
  • Gain opportunities to develop and transfer skills in long term care to community and hospital settings.
Full Job Description
Role and Facility Information

Now is the time to augment your practice with a long term care (LTC) panel to provide the challenging, diverse, and impactful work of caring for the frail elderly. LTC panels are permanent, part-time placements for family physicians.

Why long term care?
- You will become part of a supportive physician community
- Each care home works closely with an interdisciplinary care team to provide holistic resident-centered care
- You have the opportunity to join the Long Term Care Initiative (LTCI) which includes: paid mentorship, participation in a shared after-hours care system, and paid participation in LTC-specific events and projects. Joining the LTCI represents a formal commitment to the care home and meeting the five best practice expectations which include: regular proactive visits; on-site medication reviews; attendance at care conferences; involvement in 24/7 on call; and completed documentation in charts
- You can develop and grow your skills in providing care for the frail elderly and transfer these skills to your work in community and hospital settings
- Allows for flexibility in your schedule - supplement other family practice work with a LTC panel to add variety to your workday. You can work with the care home leadership to set the size of your panel and your availability for providing care

Remuneration
LTC panels are remunerated through the LFP model or fee-for-service. Physicians who join the LTCI also receive payments for:
- Participation in the after-hours care program: $1,000 for weekday shifts and $1,400 for weekend shifts
- Sessional payments for participation in mentorship activities, events, and quality improvement projects

Care home information
Lakeview Care Centre is a 177-bed long term care home currently being supported by three Long Term Care Initiative (LTCI) practitioners. An additional practitioner is required to assist with the resident caseload. Further information about the care home can be found at their website.

If you are interested in getting more information about working with this care home, or would like to note your interest for future long term care opportunities, please contact our Vancouver LTCI team.
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Terms

Compensation
Compensation Type Combination Estimated Remuneration Dependent on billings and panel size Physician Overhead N/A Billing Split N/A

Benefits and Incentives
Vacation Leave N/A Other Benefits/Incentives LTCI incentive payments

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