Full position descriptionAbout the roleCanMED Clinics is looking for doctors to join our integrative medicine team in Adelaide. This is an in-person clinical role, part-time or full-time, assessing and managing patients with chronic pain, sleep disorders, palliative needs and complex chronic conditions who have not had adequate relief from conventional first-line treatment.

The role is open to four groups, and we mean all four. GPs, including those who want one sessional day a week away from their main practice. Non-GP medical specialists, particularly in pain medicine, palliative care, psychiatry, rehabilitation, neurology and geriatrics, where many of these patients already sit.

Early-career doctors and newly qualified consultants who want structured, supervised clinical work in a specialised area, whether or not they are on a training pathway yet. And nurse practitioners, who can prescribe in this space under their endorsement and South Australian requirements and who we actively want on the team. What matters across all four is registration, sound clinical judgement and a willingness to learn a therapeutic area most training never covers.

You will not be thrown in. Every new prescriber, whatever their seniority, completes a structured induction covering the TGA access pathways (Special Access Scheme and Authorised Prescriber), product classes and pharmacology, AHPRA's guidance on prescribing in this space, our Clinical Board protocols, and our documentation standards. Early consultations are supervised, every script is reviewed by our pharmacists before dispensing, and cases are discussed at our monthly Clinical Board.

Experienced clinicians typically explicit induction within weeks; early-career doctors and nurse practitioners new to the area are supported for as long as they need.

What you'll doPatient care

- Conduct in-person initial consultations: full history, screening for contraindications and psychiatric risk, review of prior treatment, and a documented assessment of suitability for alternative or plant-based therapy.
- Develop individualised treatment plans within CanMED Clinical Board protocols, including dose limits and product selection, and explain the plan, risks, driving and workplace implications to the patient in plain language.
- Run structured follow-up reviews: response, adverse effects, dose titration, and a clear decision each time to continue, adjust or cease.
- Identify and escalate red flags, including signs of dependence, diversion or deterioration, and refer back to the patient's GP or specialist when needed.

Prescribing and regulatory
- Prescribe under the TGA Special Access Scheme Category B and, once eligible, under Authorised Prescriber approval, with full and timely documentation for every application and script.
- Nurse practitioners prescribe within their AHPRA endorsement, scope of practice and South Australian Controlled Substances requirements, with the same Clinical Board protocols and pharmacist review as our doctors.
- Maintain real-time prescription monitoring (ScriptCheckSA) checks and comply with AHPRA's guidance on prescribing in this space.
- Work with CanMED pharmacists, who review every script before dispensing, and act on their queries.

Team and governance
- Present cases at the monthly Clinical Board and contribute to protocol updates.
- Work alongside our nurse-led intake team, pharmacist prescribers and compounding pharmacists as one clinical team.
- Complete induction and ongoing CPD in this therapeutic area,



and keep your own supervised-practice log.
- Communicate with patients' regular GPs so care stays coordinated.

What success looks likeBy three months you have completed induction, sat in on and then led supervised consultations, and you can take a new patient from history to a Clinical Board-compliant plan with your supervisor reviewing before the script goes to the pharmacist. You know the SAS-B process cold and your documentation passes pharmacist review first time. By six months you are consulting independently within protocol, with pharmacist review on every script and a weekly case discussion with your supervisor. You have presented at least two cases to the Clinical Board and your follow-up patients show documented, reasoned decisions at each review. If eligible, you have applied for or hold Authorised Prescriber approval.

By twelve months you are a trusted member of the clinical team, managing your own list of patients across one or more CanMED sites, contributing to protocol development, and helping induct the next doctor. Your patients' regular GPs hear from you, your records would stand up to an AHPRA or TGA audit without a scramble, and you have a clear view of where you want your career to go next, whether that is deeper into integrative medicine with us, or into a college training program with a year of real, supervised, well-documented practice behind you.

How the role fits into CanMEDCanMED Group is a Practioner Led, integrated healthcare group: CanMED Clinics at West Lakes and in the Adelaide CBD, a Mount Barker clinic and pharmacy opening in 2027, two compounding pharmacies, Our tagline is "People first. Patients always. Growth together.", and the clinic model is built around it.

You sit at the clinical centre of that model. Nurses handle intake and screening before you see the patient. You make the clinical decision. Pharmacists review and dispense, and run adherence and monitoring follow-up between your reviews.

The Clinical

Board, which includes our medical director, pharmacist prescribers and senior pharmacists, sets the protocols you work within and reviews cases monthly.

That structure is deliberate: it means a doctor early in their career can practise safely in a specialised area, with more oversight than most private clinics offer, and it means your time goes to medicine rather than administration.

You will report clinically to the CanMED Medical Director and operationally to the Managing Director.

Who we're looking forEssential

- Either: a medical degree (MBBS, MD or equivalent) with current general registration with AHPRA. Provisional registration (internship) does not meet the requirement, so PGY2 or above in practice. Fellowship is not required; GPs and specialists of any discipline are welcome.
- Or: current AHPRA registration as a registered nurse with endorsement as a nurse practitioner.
- Eligible to work in Australia.
- Sound clinical history-taking and documentation, and the judgement to know when to say no, refer on, or ask.




- Willing to work in person at our Adelaide clinics and to complete our induction and supervised-practice program.
- Current Working with Children Check and National Police Check, or willingness to obtain them.

Not required
- RACGP or ACRRM fellowship, registrar status, or enrolment in a specialist training program.
- Prior experience with alternative or plant-based therapies. We teach this.
- Prior experience with TGA access pathways.

We are especially keen to hear from
- GPs who want a sessional day or two in a different clinical setting without leaving their main practice.
- Non-GP specialists in pain medicine, palliative care, psychiatry, rehabilitation, neurology or geriatrics who already see these patients and refer them out.
- Newly qualified consultants and doctors two to five years out of medical school who want structured, supervised clinical work while they decide on or wait for a training pathway.
- Nurse practitioners in chronic pain, palliative care, aged care, mental health or primary care who want to extend their prescribing with proper support.
- Doctors or nurse practitioners returning to practice after a break.
- Overseas-trained doctors who hold general registration. Note that Medicare access may be limited by section 19AB; our clinics are privately billed, so this does not prevent you working with us, and we will talk you through it.

What we offer
- Training in a therapeutic area most doctors never get taught: structured induction, supervised consultations, pharmacist support on every script, and monthly Clinical Board case review.
- A supervisor who is a practising prescriber, with a documented supervised-practice log you can take with you to any future training application.
- Part-time or full-time, in person, across West Lakes, the CBD and Mount Barker. Sessional rates or a salaried arrangement, your choice. [Insert range or "competitive, discussed at interview".]
- No volume targets, no scripts-per-hour dashboards. We measure quality of care and documentation.
- Nurse-led intake and pharmacist follow-up, so your consultation time is spent on clinical decisions.
- Paid CPD and support to complete recognised external training in this space. [Name the course or provider if you'll fund it.]
- A clear path to Authorised Prescriber approval once you are eligible, with our pharmacists preparing the application with you.
- Indemnity: [state whether CanMED covers or contributes to medical indemnity, or that the doctor holds their own.]
- A small, friendly team that includes pharmacist prescribers, compounding pharmacists and nurses, and a Clinical Board that will know your name.

How to applyCome and see us first. We'd rather you spend an hour in one of our clinics, meet the pharmacists and watch how the model runs, than decide from a job ad. Email [email protected] with a line about yourself and we'll set up a visit at West Lakes or the CBD, no CV needed at that stage. If you'd rather apply straight away, send a short CV, your AHPRA registration number and a few sentences on why this role interests you to [email protected] with the subject line "Prescriber — Integrative Medicine".

Applications are reviewed as they arrive. Shortlisted applicants will have an informal conversation with our Managing Director and Medical Director, followed by a half-day sit-in at a clinic.

- CanMED is an equal prospect employer. We welcome applications from clinicians of every background, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors and nurses and overseas-trained practitioners.

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