Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Newfoundland and Labrador

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Overview

NL Health Services is hiring three full-time Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists in St. John's, NL, to provide inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care to patients up to age 18. The role includes consultation to Tuckamore Residential Treatment Centre, collaboration with pediatricians, and participation in a primarily consultative home on-call system. Remuneration follows the Memorandum of Agreement for salaried physicians, with 75 hours bi-weekly.

Responsibilities:

Psychiatric assessment and treatment of children and adolescents up to age 18
Inpatient and outpatient child and youth mental health services
Consultation to Tuckamore Residential Treatment Centre
Participation in the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry on-call system
Collaboration with pediatricians and multidisciplinary teams

Requirements summary:

MD from a recognized institution
FRCPC in Psychiatry with Child & Adolescent subspecialty
Eligible for CPSNL licensure
Satisfactory criminal record and vulnerable sector checks

Source and dates

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Employer posting date: 2025-11-27
First seen by our source: 2026-11-05
Source record updated: 2026-11-05

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Job details

Department	Physicians & advanced practice
Hours per week	37.5
Schedule	day
Travel	air: none · ground: minimal
Work setting	Hospital or clinic
Position	Sitting and standing
Physical demands	physical low · computer moderate
Licences & certifications	FRCPC, CPSNL licensure
Background checks	criminal record, vulnerable sector
Education	Professional degree (MD, JD…) (required)
Fields of study	Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Perks mentioned	Generous parental leave, Retirement plan, Relocation assistance, Visa sponsorship, Performance bonus

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Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Job description

Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
3 Positions Available

Location: Janeway Child Health and Rehabilitation, St. John's, NL Centre

Eastern Zone - Physician
Permanent Full-time
EXTERNALDR

Hours	75 hours bi-weekly plus on-call obligations.
Salary	Per the Memorandum of Agreement for salaried physicians in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Competition Number	VAC0019017
Posted Date	2025-11-28
Closing Date	Open until filled.
Demands, duties, qualifications	ABOUT NL HEALTH SERVICES We are a provincial health authority responsible for delivering quality health care to approximately 550,000 people in Newfoundland and Labrador. Supported by over 23,000 employees and physicians, our team works together to improve the health and well-being of every person, in every community. Guided by the vision of the Health Accord NL, we offer a range of health-care programs and services through a wide network of facilities, clinics, and community services across five zones: Central, Eastern-Rural, Eastern-Urban, Labrador-Grenfell, and Western. At NL Health Services, we believe that our people — employees, doctors and volunteers — make it a great place to work. Every individual brings valuable knowledge, experience and perspective. It is in this diversity that we find strength. We are committed to embracing the distinct and complementary characteristics of our members, as we seek to eliminate health disparities, and ensuring we provide fair, equitable and quality health care to everyone. If you are passionate about making a difference and providing exceptional health care, we want to hear from you. Join our team and be part of something extraordinary. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY NL Health Services – Eastern Urban Zone invites expressions of interest for a full-time Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist with the Mental Health and Addictions Program in St. John's, NL. The successful candidate will join an established group of Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists working within multidisciplinary teams of the Mental Health and Addictions Program, collaborating extensively with pediatricians within the Children and Women's Health Program. This position includes opportunities for: Consultation and collaborative care to Eastern Health facilities including the Tuckamore Residential Treatment Centre Inpatient and outpatient child and youth mental health services within the hospital and the expanding local community Psychiatric assessment and treatment of patients up to the age of 18 Participation in the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry on-call system Interests in shared care, medical quality and efficiency, program development, administrative responsibilities, and clinical teaching are considered assets. Work Environment St. John's is a vibrant, historic city on the eastern tip of North America, offering a warm and welcoming community, a thriving arts and culture scene, and easy access to the stunning natural landscapes of the Avalon Peninsula — including whale watching, hiking, and some of the most dramatic coastlines in Canada. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUALIFICATIONS Medical Degree (MD) from a recognized institution FRCPC (or equivalent) in Psychiatry with subspecialty certification in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Eligible for licensure (full or provisional) with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador (www.cpsnl.ca) Must satisfy credentialing requirements of NL Health Services including a satisfactory criminal record check and vulnerable sector check ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Provide psychiatric assessment and treatment to children and adolescents up to age 18 Deliver inpatient and outpatient child and youth mental health services Provide consultation and collaborative care including to the Tuckamore Residential Treatment Centre Participate in the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry on-call system. On-call responsibilities involve home call that is primarily consultative in nature, with the majority of call activity occurring during daytime hours. Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary Mental Health and Addictions teams Collaborate with pediatricians within the Children and Women's Health Program Support person- and family-centered care; promote patient and worker safety by integrating safety into work practices, identifying risks, and implementing improvements ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REMUNERATION Remuneration will be in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement for salaried physicians in Newfoundland and Labrador, commensurate with level of experience. Benefits Include: Study Leave Annual Leave — 20 working days Family Leave, Parental Leave, Education Leave, Sick Leave 9 paid statutory holidays + Compensatory Leave Employer-Sponsored RRSP Group Insurance — Basic Life, AD&D, Supplementary Health, Group Travel, Vision Care Available Incentives: Relocation coverage — https://www.gov.nl.ca/exec/tbs/policies/benefits/relocation/ Provincial incentives — https://workinhealthnl.ca/incentives/#all-incentives ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW TO APPLY All qualified persons are encouraged to apply. Interested candidates are asked to submit applications via our careers webpage: Job Posting - Recruiting For more information, please contact: [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LEARN MORE ABOUT PRACTICING IN NL https://workinhealthnl.ca/ https://www.nlhealthservices.ca/ NL Health Services is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates.