Emergency Medicine Physician

@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Newfoundland and Labrador

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Overview

NL Health Services is hiring a permanent full-time Emergency Medicine Physician at Health Sciences Centre in St. John's. The role covers scheduled emergency shifts in a high-volume tertiary department, with point-of-care ultrasound and teaching through the Memorial University affiliation. Pay follows the Alternate Payment Plan, with 75 hours biweekly plus on-call obligations.

Responsibilities:

Provide tertiary-level emergency care to patients of all ages
Work scheduled emergency shifts in a predictable template
Perform and interpret point-of-care ultrasound
Participate in teaching and scholarly activities

Requirements summary:

MD from a recognized institution
RCPSC certification in Emergency Medicine or equivalent
Current ACLS, BLS, PALS and ATLS
Eligible for CPSNL licensure
Satisfactory criminal record, vulnerable sector and RCMP conduct checks

Tools & skills

Point-of-care ultrasound

Source and dates

Source type not verified · nlhs

Employer posting date: 2026-06-23
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, evening, weekends, overnight
Travel	air: none · ground: none
Work setting	Hospital or clinic
Position	Sitting and standing
Physical demands	physical moderate · computer moderate
Licences & certifications	CPSNL licensure, ACLS, BLS, PALS, ATLS
Background checks	criminal record, vulnerable sector
Education	Professional degree (MD, JD…) (required)
Fields of study	Medicine
Perks mentioned	Relocation assistance, Performance bonus

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Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Field	Value
Headquarters	St. John's
Open jobs on Jobsy	970

Job description

Emergency Medicine Physician
Eastern Urban Zone
Health Sciences Centre, St. John's, NL

Emergency Medicine Physician
Permanent Full-time
EXTERNALDR

Hours	75 Hours Bi-Weekly + On-Call Obligations
Salary	Alternate Payment Plan (APP)
Competition Number	VAC0026218
Posted Date	2026-06-24
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 applications for a permanent full-time Emergency Medicine Physician at Health Sciences Centre in St. John's, NL. The successful candidate will join an established team of Emergency Medicine Physicians at one of Atlantic Canada's premier tertiary care and teaching hospitals. Health Sciences Centre is the provincial tertiary referral centre, providing a full range of specialist and subspecialist services to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Emergency Department at Health Sciences Centre is a high-volume, full-service department supported by the full range of specialist services, diagnostic imaging, laboratory, and critical care resources available on site. ER shifts are allocated in an equitable and predictable templated format. The Cancer Care Program is affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. This position offers opportunities for teaching, scholarly activities, and clinical trials participation. 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 Current certification in ACLS, BLS, PALS, and ATLS Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Certification in Emergency Medicine (or equivalent) Eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador (www.cpsnl.ca) Must satisfy credentialing and privilege requirements of NL Health Services including a satisfactory criminal record check and vulnerable sector check Satisfactory Certificate of Conduct from the RCMP or local police authority ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Provide comprehensive emergency medicine care to patients of all age groups at a tertiary care level Work scheduled shifts in an equitable and predictable format Perform and interpret point-of-care ultrasound as required Collaborate with the full range of specialist and support services available on site Participate in teaching and scholarly activities through the Memorial University affiliation 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 Alternate Payment Plan (APP). Available Incentives: Candidates may be eligible for recruitment and retention incentives, subject to applicable terms, conditions, and program availability at the time of offer. 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: Apply here 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.