Job Description

Description

Location: Northwest Territories
Status: Full time, Permanent
Schedule: FIFO 2 weeks on / 2 weeks off

Our Team

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.

What We\'ll Accomplish Together

In the role of Physician Assistant at this remote mining site in Northern Canada, you will work within the Occupational Health Clinic to provide care to a diverse worker population, within a team that is passionate about wellbeing and safety.

What You\'ll Do

• Provide urgent and emergency care to all patients seeking care in the clinic, within the scope of the medical directives, under remote direction of the Medical Director
• Provide occupational health services, to include spirometry, audiometry, ECG, vision testing and more as part of the medical surveillance program
• Record all patient encounters and document appropriately using the electronic medical record (EMR)
• Communicate with onsite and offsite personnel to ensure appropriate patient care and safe return to work
• Report workplace injuries according to the client\'s internal policies, and to the appropriate territorial/provincial bodies as required
• Participate in the development and delivery of health educations and wellness campaigns
• Collaborate with client management and the broader TELUS team to drive improvements towards best practice and better health outcomes

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 activities including

• Pre-employment and periodic medicals
• Fitness for work assessment
• Occupational injury reporting and classification
• Experience organizing/coordinating medical evacuations
• Experience in use of EMR an asset
• Training in use of ultrasound an asset

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.

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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