Pediatrician – Part time Permanent 0.2 FTE

WellFort is seeking a Pediatrician to join our team!

Pediatrician – Part time Permanent 0.2 FTE

WellFort Community Health Services is a non-profit, values-based organization based in Peel. We provide a wide variety of comprehensive care including primary care, dental, mental health, and chronic disease management with a focus on illness prevention, health promotion and community development. We work with residents and other agencies to increase community capacity.

WellFort is committed to providing inclusive, accessible, and sustainable programs and services to a diversely rich community.

Members of the WellFort Family include:

• Bloom Clinic
• Bramalea Community Health Centre
• Diabetes Education Program
• Four Corners Health Centre
• Health n’ Smiles

The Pediatrician provides comprehensive, community oriented primary health care, which emphasizes accessibility, health promotion, illness prevention and continuity of care. The Pediatrician functions both independently and as a part of an interdisciplinary team through collaboration and medical directives. The Pediatrician will support all quality improvement initiatives, adhere to best practice guidelines, practice from strength based prospective.

What you will do:

• Provides primary care directly, emphasizing accessibility, health promotion, illness and injury prevention and continuity of care in various settings including the centre, satellite clinics and over the phone.
• Interviews (takes history), examines, makes medical assessments, taking into account the social and economic determinants of health.
• Diagnoses and treats acute conditions.
• Diagnoses and treats chronic conditions incorporating self management techniques as appropriate
• Provides primary care indirectly by working interactively with nurse practitioners, providing consultation to nurses or other staff, and by developing medical or clinical protocols.
• Provides on-call coverage on a rotating shared basis with other Physicians to ensure that medical care can be accessed 24 hours per day throughout the entire year.
• Maintains hospital privileges, if possible, at a convenient hospital.
• Participates in case conferences with other providers to ensure coordination of client services.

What you will need:

• Member in good standing of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and the College of Family Physicians of Canada, specialty in Pediatrics
• Experience and/or openness to working with communities and individuals who face barriers accessing traditional health care institutions 
• For reasons as such as poverty, discrimination, mental health and substance use issues.
• Possesses or is eligible to obtain required malpractice coverage with CMPA.
• A capacity for critical analysis of the determinants of health and social factors, such as power dynamics that affect individual, organizational and community health.
• Excellent written communication and oral skills that meet the needs of the individual and/or community at the appropriate literacy level.
• Experience working with confidential and time sensitive documents and information.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to multi task in a fast paced environment.
• Experience working in a value based non-profit or social services organization.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and interdependently in an interdisciplinary team environment in which the skills and responsibilities of each team member are recognized and respected. 
• Demonstrated proficiency in use of computers and various computer software applications, such as Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
• Ability to speak languages relevant to the residents of the organization’s community is an asset.