General Practitioner, Lethbridge Correctional Centre

Job Summary:

Correctional Health Services, Recovery Alberta is inviting applications for a General Practitioner to work at the Lethbridge Correctional Centre (LCC).
 

LCC houses up to 400 male and female remanded and provincially sentenced persons. A multidisciplinary team of nurses, social workers, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, dentists, psychologists, addiction counselors, mental health therapists, and psychiatrists work alongside physicians at each facility to provide essential health services including emergency care, diagnosis and treatment of acute or chronic illness, medication administration, mental health services, urgent or emergent ophthalmologic services, urgent or emergent dental care, and health promotion and disease prevention.
 

The successful applicant will engage in clinical service in this facility that includes outpatient clinics and telephone on-call service. Specifically, this opportunity is to provide up to 2 half-day clinics per week (3-4 hour clinics). Additional opportunities exist to provide virtual services to the other Provincial Correctional Facilities. 

Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Provide medical assessment, diagnosis and treatment to patients in the Centre in compliance with AHS, RA and CPSA policies, standards and guidelines.
• Deliver the services during two 3-4 hour clinics per week.
• Some services may be delivered virtually, including to other Correctional Health Centres in the Province if needed.
• Remain informed on developments concerning the medical condition of patients in cooperation with all other health providers in the Centre.
• Identify opportunities for improvement in policies and practices and for tabling specific proposals that will result in increased efficiency in the provision of health care to patients. 
• Provide guidance and direction regarding health care matters to the Centre’s Health Services staff. 
• Provide professional advice to the Centres’ medical leadership regarding health care policy.
• Participate in committee work relating to health care service matters as reasonably required and supported by Correctional Health Services.
• Provide information to fatality inquiries as required.