Coast to Coast Health Care requires General Practitioners. With a competitive salary offered and an on call allowance. As the practice holds a PRIME (Primary Response in Medical Emergency) contract, the position would be most suited to a person with experience in emergency medicine.
Located in the North of New Zealand, it is blessed with a temperate climate, known perhaps with some exaggeration as the “winterless north”. The service bounds the districts of Rodney and Kaipara and is regarded as one of the “playgrounds” for metropolitan Auckland – the largest city in New Zealand and just an hour to the south from the region served by Coast to Coast Health Care.
An hour further north is the city of Whangarei and thus, Wellsford is the gateway to the Northland Region – one of the tourist destinations for people from all around the world. Northland is one of the oldest regions in New Zealand, both in terms of European settlement and also in terms of pre-colonial New Zealand. To this day, the Maori people are a significant proportion of the population of the North and bring a unique contribution to the culture we live in, while also raising health challenges in what is effectively a bi-cultural society, but in which the people reflect the whole spectrum of the socio-economic scale. The demography of the population mirrors the demographics of the country as a whole.
The region that is served is blessed with a multitude of physical features – from the expansive beaches of the east coast at Pakiri and Mangawhai, to the boating and fishing opportunities that are Kawau Bay and Kawau Island; to the wineries and world famous farmers markets at Matakana with its boutique restaurants and shops; to the rolling hills and steeper bush clad gullies of the rural land that is such an integral part of the New Zealand economy with primarily sheep and beef farming or dairying and the industries that serve them providing the backbone to many of our communities; to the beach resorts with up market beach homes, camping grounds and boutique B & B accommodation offering an array of holiday experiences at Mangawhai Heads.
Inland you come to Kaiwaka with its unique fairy lighting of most of the businesses and many of the homes lighting up the night sky, especially around the Christmas festive season. Kaiwaka features many European touches with a Dutch shop in the middle of town offering a multitude of wares from Holland, a German flavoured Motel and an Eco-Village development, with a significant European influence, that offers devotees a more natural way of life than might be available elsewhere.
In the North West of our region are the villages of Maungaturoto and Paparoa – small communities with a uniquely rural character supported by a strong community spirit and serving the surrounding farming regions needs.
To the west is the huge expansive Kaipara Harbour, one of the larges inland harbours in the Southern Hemisphere, relatively un-inhabited, wild and untouched – uniquely beautiful yet deceptively dangerous - so it pays to know your locals!!!!
Geographically central to our region is Wellsford – a small town of about 1,500 people situated on the intersection of State Highway 1 and 16. It is strategically significant as the town lies at the centre of the region we serve. It has a light industrial employer that employs about 250 people. Wellsford also is a major player in serving the farming community with a regional stock sales centre on the edge of town.
Primary schools are dotted through the region, with secondary schools in Maungaturoto, Wellsford and Warkworth to the south.
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Located in the North of New Zealand, it is blessed with a temperate climate, known perhaps with some exaggeration as the “winterless north”. The service bounds the districts of Rodney and Kaipara and is regarded as one of the “playgrounds” for metropolitan Auckland – the largest city in New Zealand and just an hour to the south from the region served by Coast to Coast Health Care.