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Role Title: Urgent Care Physician
Location: Cork
Contract: Permanent, Part Time

Vhi Health & Wellbeing DAC is currently recruiting for a permanent part-time Urgent Care Physician position at our Cork clinic. The successful candidate will be committed to delivering exceptional patient-centred care, ensuring the highest standards of clinical quality, safety, and professionalism in a dynamic healthcare environment.

About us
Our purpose at Vhi is to help our customers and patients live longer, stronger and healthier lives. A big part of delivering this purpose is to create a workplace culture where all colleagues feel connected, informed and motivated to do their best work. At Vhi, we have a set of shared values that drive the kind of behaviour we want and that will support colleagues to grow, develop and play a key part in our success.

Leading the way in private healthcare, we now offer an extensive range of career options across several specialities within the healthcare space, including in: urgent care, planned care, primary care, health screening, hospital @ home, women’s health, pharmacy, digital health, out of hours emergency dental care, and nurseline 24/7. The efficient running of these services is made possible by our teams of highly skilled healthcare professionals.

What we offer
As a Vhi employee, you will receive a comprehensive benefits package, which includes:

• Competitive basic salary
• Annual bonus
• Unsocial allowance
• Pension
• Health insurance for you and your family
• Income protection in the event of illness
• Medical indemnity
• Professional subscriptions

In addition, Vhi Health and Wellbeing refers to a range of services and programs designed to support your physical, mental, and emotional health. Services include the Vhi 360 health centre with lifestyle and complementary therapies, an Employe Assistance Programme (EAP)
offering counselling, coaching, and expert advice, and individual support such as mindfulness resources and health coaching.

What will you do:

• Provide care to patients presenting with a range of urgent care presentations
• Treat patients who attend the clinic for consultation, aged from 12 months
• Minor injuries; including: sprains, fractures and wounds
• Minor illnesses
• Initial interpretation of x-rays and ECGs
• Facilitating referrals to ED/ specialists where indicated

What you need to be successful:
Education & Experience

• Registered with the Irish Medical Council.
• Minimum of 5 years post graduate experience in clinical practice, including significant experience in general practice and a minimum of 2 years recent urgent care/ emergency medicine experience.
• Training in emergency medicine, general practice or other postgraduate qualification would be highly beneficial.
• 6 months experience with paediatric patients is desirable.
• Flexibility across a 7-day roster.
• BLS

Skills and Abilities

• Patient focused
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong communication skills
• Good knowledge of risk management and clinical audit
• Demonstrated alignment to Vhi values

Sustainability
At Vhi, we believe that the health of people and the health of the planet are interconnected. That’s why we’re on a journey towards an integrated model of healthcare that puts people and the planet at its heart.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Accessibility
At Vhi, we are on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations at every stage of the recruitment process for candidates with disabilities, neurodivergence, or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation, please contact recruitment@vhi.ie, and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch via email.

Any information you provide will be treated confidentially within the recruitment team and used solely for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations during the application and recruitment process.

Vhi is an equal opportunities employer.

Ready to start your journey? Apply now