Virtual Physician Support

Salary

Please refer to the information below for details regarding salary.

Job Summary

Job Title :

Virtual Physician Support

Work Site :

Indigenous Health Outreach and Indigenous Crisis Response Team

Status : Part-Time

Part-Time

Start Date : As Soon As Possible

As Soon As Possible

Compensation Type :

Alternative Payment Arrangement

Come work as a Virtual Physician Support with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!

Virtual physician support for Indigenous Health Outreach (IHO) and Indigenous Crisis Response Team (ICRT).

This role will provide virtual physician support for Indigenous Health Outreach (IHO) and Indigenous Crisis Response Team (ICRT) in Indigenous Health at Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), which are VCH’s only Indigenous-specific outreach and crisis response services.

Leading with cultural safety in an Indigenous Relational and strengths-based approach to care, IHO supports unhoused or precariously housed people in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) community in Vancouver with complex mental health and / or substance use challenges and connects them to cultural supports and health services, including existing mental health & substance use programs and primary care services.

ICRT leads with cultural safety to provide wholistic non-police mobile mental health and wellness crisis response services for people in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) community.

IHO and ICRT are an interdisciplinary team and works collaboratively across the health system with community-based service providers, including shelter and supportive housing staff to provide a community-based, healthcare-led crisis response, post-crisis follow up, and service navigation.

Physician scope / activities, which will be delivered on-call, remotely :

• Provide on-call, virtual, episodic care to patients, who will be initially assessed by our nurses in-person Monday through Friday from 0800-1800
• Liaise with nursing staff who are on site to create an episodic care plan for a patient and determine bridging care
• Coordinating with the other physicians / NPs on the team as needed to ensure continuity of care
• This episodic care could require : Antipsychotic titration for mental health decompensationVirtual certification with a Form 4 (on rare occasions)Care coordination, as well as liaison with psychiatrists

You will need to use Profile EMR, PARIS as well as Cerner for this role, and will be compensated for any training required.

In keeping with the spirit of meeting patients where they are, other episodic care needs may also need to be addressed, including :

• Skin and soft tissue infection (SSTI) management
• Bridging scripts for opiate agonist management

Qualifications

Education, Licensing, & Experience :

• Current College of Physicians of BC (CPSBC) - Full
• Canadian College of Family Practitioners (CCFP) - Mandatory
• Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) - Mandatory
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC) - Mandatory

Closing Statement

Interested in applying? Feel free to reach out to Ben Murphy, Executive and Medical Staff Talent Acquisition Advisor :