A boutique, telehealth medicinal cannabis clinic where your clinical judgement is the only thing that decides a script. Free consults for patients, a nurse-led team to absorb the admin, sessional pay that never rises with prescribing volume, and a compliance framework built to protect your registration. We're standing this clinic up now, and we'd like you to be the first doctor in it.
See how it works ↓Dr Ameerjan, your background isn't incidental to why we reached out. A career spent in aviation and defence medicine is a career spent making documented, defensible, standards-based decisions under genuine regulatory scrutiny. That's precisely the temperament we want at the heart of this clinic from day one.
As a CASA Designated Aviation Medical Examiner and a member of the Australasian College and Society of Aerospace Medicine, you already practise the kind of protocol-driven, fully-documented assessment our compliance framework is designed to produce. You wouldn't be adapting to our standards; you'd already be fluent in them.
Your work as a Senior Aviation Medical Officer with Australian Defence Health Services since 2012 means operating inside strict regulatory frameworks is second nature. That's exactly how we want to run, and as our first prescriber you'd help set that standard from day one: judgement-led, audit-ready, and never cutting a corner that would have to be explained later.
Your RACGP generalist grounding and international experience (the UAE Air Force, Qatar Airways) speak to a clinician comfortable assessing patients carefully across distance. A telehealth-first practice plays directly to that strength.
We're a small team of clinicians, operators and technologists building the kind of clinic we'd want our own families to attend. We're looking for our first Authorised Prescriber to lead clinical care: someone who wants to practise unhurried, defensible medicine without the volume pressure, billing friction, or admin grind of a typical practice.
This is a founding Authorised Prescriber position, not a seat on a doctor roster. As our first doctor, you set the clinical scope alongside us: the conditions we will and won't treat, the consultation standards, the follow-up cadence. As the clinic grows from one prescriber to four, you're the senior clinical voice the next doctors are mentored into.
Initial consultations will be free to the patient, because we never want someone weighing up whether they can afford to ask for help. That removes any commercial pressure to churn appointments and lets you spend real time with the people in front of you. We're building reputation, not throughput.
The role is fully remote and flexibly scheduled. Many of the patients who benefit most from medicinal cannabis are in chronic pain, managing anxiety, or simply too unwell to easily attend a clinic, so telehealth lets you meet them where they actually are and lets you practise from wherever suits you.
Golden Ratio owns both the clinic and the pharmaceutical line, and runs on software we've built in-house. The margin on the medication, not your appointments, is what's designed to sustain longer consult slots, a real nursing team and free follow-ups. The economics are arranged so that good clinical care is the business model, not a cost to be trimmed.
The single most important thing a prescriber should understand about how this works: you are paid for your time, full stop. Whether you write a script or decide not to, your pay is identical. That isn't an accounting quirk; it's the deliberate foundation the whole clinic is built on.
You're engaged on a sessional or hourly basis at $220-250 per hour for clinical consultations, prescribing, TGA notifications, follow-ups and clinical-governance oversight. Hours are agreed up front and flex with you, not with the script count.
The clinic is funded by the wholesale margin on the medication it owns; your remuneration is a fixed cost the clinic pays, completely decoupled from what you prescribe. There is no bonus for volume, no per-script kicker, nothing that rewards writing more.
Regulators are actively investigating clinics where prescribing and income move together. Here they can't. That alignment is your protection: every decision you make is defensible because you had nothing to gain from making it. You practise medicine; the clinic handles the commerce.
By the time a patient reaches you, the intake, history and eligibility checks will already be done. Your time is spent on the parts of care that genuinely require a doctor, not on forms, scheduling or chasing follow-ups.
We're built around the TGA's Authorised Prescriber pathway as our primary route, with SAS-B for patients who fall outside AP categories. The regulatory machinery is ours to run; the clinical decisions are yours to make.
We prepare and manage your Authorised Prescriber application through the TGA, including the HREC or specialist-college endorsement. Once approved, you can prescribe to defined classes of patients without per-patient TGA approval.
Turnaround: typically 2-4 weeks for endorsement and TGA approval, with us doing the legwork.
For patients outside the AP class definition, we use SAS-B, a per-patient notification to the TGA. We maintain clinical-justification templates so the documentation is fast; you supply the reasoning and sign off, and the patient can be treated while the notification processes.
Process: notification submitted within 28 days of first prescription.
Because we own the pharmaceutical line, you'll have a stable, well-understood formulary to work from, and a real say in what we carry. You're never pushed toward a product; you prescribe what the evidence and the patient in front of you call for.
We'll maintain a clear, documented list of the conditions we treat and the ones we won't, and you help define it. Patients who aren't appropriate for our care are declined or referred, not squeezed in. The boundaries are agreed in advance so no one is making a borderline call under pressure.
A prescriber's most valuable asset is their registration. The entire governance framework below exists so that yours is never at risk from a documentation gap, a missed obligation, or a decision that can't be evidenced.
Structured consult notes, documented clinical justifications for every patient, and templates that capture what an auditor would look for, so the record always backs the decision.
No three-minute scripts. We'll enforce minimum consultation times and maximum daily patient-load caps, so you're never pressured into rushed or volume-driven decisions.
Scheduled, nurse-coordinated follow-ups and outcome tracking are built into the model, demonstrating ongoing care rather than one-off prescribing.
We'll register and check against SafeScript, ERRCD and QScript as appropriate to each patient's state, so Schedule 8 prescribing is always monitored and defensible.
The most common compliance miss for new clinics is forgetting state-level S8 permits on top of TGA approval. We'll secure them in every state we treat patients, so you never carry that risk.
Quarterly clinical audits, a clear governance framework, and adverse-event processes you don't have to invent: the scaffolding that keeps a practice clean is designed in from the start, not bolted on later.
You shouldn't be doing nursing intake, chasing pharmacies, or wrestling with software. Here's the support structure designed to keep your time clinical.
An RN/EN will be the warm first voice, running intake, pre-screening, medical history, scheduling, follow-up coordination and adverse-event documentation. They'll be the patient's day-to-day relationship, and your buffer from the admin.
From the second stage of growth, a practice manager takes on operations, compliance monitoring, staff coordination and reporting, so clinical governance has a dedicated operational partner, not just goodwill.
Clinical work will run on Best Practice as the EMR backbone, wrapped in an in-house app ecosystem that handles inventory, pharmacy coordination and patient flow. The technology serves you; it's not another system you have to fight.
Growth in a clinical setting has to be earned, not forced. We'll add a new prescriber only once the current one is at a properly-managed load, and only once the support around them is genuinely in place. You're never the relief valve for a clinic that scaled too fast.
| Stage | Prescribers | Active Patients | Your Focus | Timing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch | 1 (you) | ~215 | Establish clinical standards & build the book | Months 1-4 |
| Validate | 1 → 2 | ~600 | Onboard & mentor a second AP | Months 5-8 |
| Expand | 2 → 3 | ~1,800 | Lead clinical governance across the team | Months 9-14 |
| Mature | 3 → 4 | ~3,600 | Senior oversight & quality | Months 15-20 |
| Steady State | 4 (full roster) | ~5,600 | Clinical leadership of a stable practice | Month 24+ |
Nurse-led intake and our app ecosystem mean your time is spent on diagnosis, prescribing and complex follow-up, not admin. A well-supported AP can responsibly care for around 1,200-1,500 active patients while keeping every appointment unhurried.
A mature book isn't thousands of first-time visits; it's a stable group of patients you've genuinely helped, returning to refill medication that's working. Continuity is the clinical aim, and it makes for a far more satisfying practice.
Clinical systems, templates and governance will live in the practice, not with any one doctor. Records sit in Best Practice, accessible to any authorised clinician, so leave, handover, or growth never leaves a patient stranded.