Deputy Medical Director

at  Central Australian Aboriginal Congress

• Base Salary: $284,407 (p.a.)
• Total Effective Package: $336,502 (p.a.)*
• Full-time Continuous Contract
  General Practice Rural Incentives Program -
  Central Australian Aboriginal Congress operates in Alice Springs (MM6) and more Remote (MM7) regions, providing Medical Practitioners access to annual additional Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) payments of between $16K to $35K in town based locations

The Deputy Medical Director is a senior clinical leadership position in the Clinical Services Section working closely with and under the direction of the Medical Director to provide clinical leadership and supervision to ensure all remote clinics are delivering high quality comprehensive and culturally safe care to our clients.
The Deputy Medical Director splits their commitment to working in Clinic with a multidisciplinary team as a Senior GP providing comprehensive primary health care to clients, supervision to GPRs and providing leadership to all remote Clinic Managers across all remote clinics along with a commitment (50% of hours worked) to working in the Clinical Leadership team, with a particular focus on medical practitioners, policy development, clinical risk mitigation and continuous quality improvement with the support of the Clinical Administration team.
As the largest Aboriginal community-controlled health organisation in the Northern Territory, Congress employs a large team of GPs across our 13 clinics in the Central Australian region.
General Practitioners in Central Australian Aboriginal Congress work within a multidisciplinary team practicing interesting and complex medicine. General Practitioners provide high quality clinical and culturally safe care and work to optimise the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people. The GPs are also involved in providing chronic disease care, health checks, preventative health care, health promotion, and routine general practice consultations.