London Home Palliative Care (LHPC) Team

Dr. Kirk D. Hamilton, Palliative Medicine Specialist MD, FRCPC

666 Wonderland Road North (located within Oakridge Medical Centre)

London, Ontario N6H 4K9

Ph:519-472-2920, Fax:1-877-423-9739

Part-time Locum Physician for home based palliative care in London, Ontario

The London Home Based Palliative Care (LHPC) Team is inviting applications for experienced clinicians to provide locum coverage for their community based palliative care team.

Dr. Hamilton is a FRCPC palliative medicine specialist and the lead physician for the LHPC team. Our team is the specialist home palliative care team in London. We are seeking physicians with communication and clinical skills who are confident managing home based palliative care patients with cancer and non-cancer illnesses. There is full back up from palliative care physicians who are available for support while working on this team.

The core responsibilities for this job will include:

·      Available to provide on-call weekend and holiday coverage 1 weekend in 4. (additional weekends may occasionally be available)

·      5-8 home visits, two or three days per week may also be available (more days per month may also be available)

·      Available to cover the LHPC team 4-6 full weeks (Monday to Friday) may also be available

Remuneration:

·      70/30 fee split for all OHIP billings, incentives and the on call stipend during the first 3 months

·      After 3 months, if the physician is meeting the needs of the LHPC team patients, the fee split will decrease to 80/20

·      Estimate minimum income for covering a Friday, Saturday and Sunday with 8 home visits per day would be around $3,574.24 (after paying the fee split). The income would significantly increase as the amount of work performed by the doctor were to increase.

Other details:

•             Full access to EMR (no charge for this service)

•             Call stipend is available

•             Home visits will mostly be arranged for the doctor during the weekdays and for their on call weekends

•             On-Call responsibilities are not an onerous aspect of this job. There are very few urgent pages received while on-call and only the very rare page during the night. Our team physicians almost never need to attend home visits after dark.

Please submit a cover letter and CV to Dr. Kirk Hamilton lead physician of the LHPC Team at [email protected].