Job Description

Description

Location: Northwest Territories, Ontario, and alternative locations across Canada
Status: Casual
Schedule: Casual (Fly In/Fly Out)

Join our Team and What We\'ll Accomplish Together

We are looking for enthusiastic, customer service-minded individuals who want to work in a collaborative, friendly and supportive environment. Join our team and help us shape the future of how Canadians engage with the healthcare ecosystem.

TELUS Health is looking for a Physician Assistant for several remote mining sites across Canada. This is a casual position intended to provide coverage where it\'s needed due to vacant positions, gaps in coverage or vacation leave. Coverage may range between 1 - 3 weeks at a time.

What You\'ll Do

• Provide primary and emergency care to all patients at the remote site within the scope of the medical directives
• Provide occupational health services, to include spirometry and audiometric testing to employees at remote site
• Record all patient encounters and document appropriately
• Communicate with onsite and offsite personnel to ensure appropriate patient care
• Provide support to the onsite client as required
• Report workplace injuries to the proper provincial bodies as required

Qualifications

What You Bring:

• Graduate of PACCC approved PA program, or ARCPA approved program
• Currently registered and in good standing with CAPA
• Professional liability insurance
• Current ACLS
• Current ATLS or ITLSAdvanced
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook
• Recent experience seeing undifferentiated patients in either primary, urgent or emergency care settings
• Experience/certification in Audiometric testing
• Experience/certification in Spirometry testing
• Trained in Drug and Alcohol collection (urine, oral fluid, and breath alcohol)
• Experience with Occupational Health including
• Pre-employment medicals
• Fitness for work
• Occupational injury reporting and classification
• Experience organizing/coordinating medical evacuations

Who is TELUS Health?

TELUS Health is empowering every person to live their healthiest life. Guided by our vision, we are leveraging the power of our leading-edge technology and focusing on the uniqueness of each individual to create the future of health.

Simply put, our team members across the country are united by their commitment to continuously innovating to make healthcare more accessible and deliver improved health experiences for everyone.

By applying to this role, you understand and agree that your information will be shared with the TELUS Group of Companies\' Talent Acquisition team(s) and/or any leader(s) who will be part of the selection process.

A bit about us

We\xe2\x80\x99re a people-focused, customer-first, purpose-driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll find our engaging, high-performance culture personally fulfilling, professionally challenging, and financially rewarding. We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. Your unique contributions and talents will be valued and respected here. When you join our team, you\xe2\x80\x99re helping us make the future friendly.

TELUS Health is an IT leader in Canada that focuses on the health sector. Our mission is to improve the way information is being used along the continuum of care to better the health of citizens in Canada and in selected countries.

Disclaimer: In accordance with the TELUS Health Solutions Data Center Security Policy, as a condition of employment, all team members whose job functions require they work at a Data Center and/or have access to detailed knowledge of technology related to client service delivery, are subject to a Personnel Security Screening conducted through the Government of Canada.

The health and safety of our team, customers and communities is paramount to TELUS. Accordingly, we require anyone joining our TELUS Health Care Centres to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

Note for Quebec candidates: if knowledge of English is required for this position, it is because the team member will be asked, on a regular basis, to interact in English with external or internal parties or to use English applications or software as part of their tasks.

Health

We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for clinicians, programmers, product developers, sales and marketing people, customer support, and everyone in between. If you have a penchant for turning information into better health outcomes, then we want you to help us develop, implement and manage the most innovative healthcare solutions possible.

We are honoured to be recognized

21,166
Physicians using TELUS Health electronic medical records

6,300
Pharmacies using our pharmacy solutions

140 million+
Health claims processed using TELUS Health solutions

Accessibility

TELUS is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.

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