Permanent Part-Time FP for Long Term Care Panel at Blenheim Lodge

Now is the time to augment your practice with a long term care panel! Multiple long term care (LTC) homes have exciting opportunities for you to provide the challenging, diverse, and impactful work of caring for the frail elderly.

Why long term care?

You will become part of a supportive physician community
Each care home works closely with an interdisciplinary care team to provide holistic resident-centered care
You have the opportunity to join the Long Term Care Initiative (LTCI) which includes the following:
- Incentive payments in addition to fee-for-service billings
- Paid mentorship opportunities
- Participation in a self-scheduling, paid, after-hours care system (commitment of only one week of coverage per quarter; coverage is shared amongst the Vancouver LTCI practitioners)
- Opportunities for paid participation in long term care-specific events
- Opportunities to participate in LTC quality improvement projects and CME
You can develop and grow your skills in providing care for the frail elderly and transfer these skills to your work in community and hospital settings
Allows for flexibility in your schedule – supplement other family practice work with a LTC panel to add variety to your workday. You can work with the care home leadership to set the size of your panel and your availability for providing care
Caring for the frail elderly is both challenging and incredibly rewarding

Why now?

There are a number of vacancies for long term care physicians and therefore you will have greater opportunity to select the specific care home or area you would like to work in
With an ageing population, care of the frail elderly will become increasingly important in both community and long term care settings

Opportunity Information

Job Details

Permanent

Job Title

Family Physician

Remuneration

Fee-for-Service with additional incentive payments (see further information below)

Start Date

End Date

Until filled

Start Date

Negotiable

Job Specifics

The Vancouver Division of Family Practice Long Term Care Initiative (LTCI) enables physicians who work in long term care and commit to a formal relationship with a care home to receive additional funding if they meet six identified best practice expectations in their care home work. The six best-practices include regular proactive visits; on-site medication reviews; attendance at care conferences; involvement in 24/7 on call; completed documentation in charts; and attendance at quarterly meetings with other care home-attached practitioners and care home leadership.

Remuneration: LTCI care home panels are remunerated through fee-for-service. All physicians who join the LTCI and take on a panel between 5 to 35 beds also qualify for the following incentive payments:

Yearly stipend payment of $220 per bed
After-hours care payments of $800 for weekday shifts (5pm to 8am Monday to Thursday) and $1,000 for weekend shifts (5pm Friday to 8am Monday)

Practice Information

Practice Name

Blenheim Lodge

Practice Setting

Long Term Care Home

Other Providers

Community

PCN 4: Westside

EMR

PointClickCare

Blenheim Lodge is a 98-bed long term care home currently being supported by two Long Term Care Initiative (LTCI) practitioners. An additional practitioner is required to assist with the resident caseload. Staff and residents at Blenheim Lodge are from various cultures and beliefs. Further information about the care home can be found at their website https://callingfoundation.org/blenheim-lodge/

If you are interested in getting more information about working with this care home, or would like to note your interest for future long term care opportunities, please complete and return the LTCI Physician Statement of Interest form or fill out the Application Form below.

If you would like more information on working in long term care in general please feel free to contact Jaimie Ashton at jashton@van-division.yarko.dev or (604) 569-2010 ext.110.

Note: there are also vacancies in other long term care homes in Vancouver. Please enter “long term care” into the search bar to view these opportunities.