Emergency Medicine Physician

@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Overview

NL Health Services is hiring two full-time Emergency Medicine Physicians at Carbonear General Hospital in the Eastern Zone. The work is solo emergency department shifts with Nurse Practitioner support on weekday days, covering patients of all ages. Pay is fee-for-service under the Medical Care Plan Category A guidelines, with an 80-hour biweekly schedule of at least 13 shifts per month.

Responsibilities:

Provide comprehensive emergency care to patients of all ages
Work solo ER shifts with Nurse Practitioner support on weekday days
Perform and interpret point-of-care ultrasound
Collaborate with on-site specialty and support services
Promote patient and worker safety

Requirements summary:

MD from a recognized institution
Eligible for licensure with CPSNL
Current ACLS, BLS, PALS and ATLS certification
Satisfactory criminal record and vulnerable sector checks
Satisfactory RCMP or police certificate of conduct

Tools & skills

Point-of-care ultrasound

Source and dates

Source type not verified · nlhs

Employer posting date: 2026-04-28
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	40
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	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	989

Job description

Emergency Medicine Physician Zone: Eastern Zone Location: Carbonear General Hospital Positions Available: 2 Emergency Medicine Physician (2 Positions) Eastern Zone - Physician Permanent Full-time (FFS) EXTERNALDR

Hours	80 Hours Bi-Weekly (Minimum 13 Shifts Per Month)
Salary	Fee-For-Service (FFS)
Competition Number	VAC0024234
Posted Date	2026-04-29
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 Rural Zone has two (2) full-time Emergency Medicine positions available at Carbonear General Hospital in Carbonear, NL. These positions are fee-for-service and available immediately. ER shifts are allocated in an equitable and predictable templated format. Emergency MD shifting is solo, with ER Nurse Practitioner support from 8:00am–4:00pm on weekdays. Second Emergency MD shifting is also utilized during peak periods. The position involves a minimum of 13 shifts per month — day shifts are 10 hours (8:00am–6:00pm) and night shifts are 14 hours (6:00pm–8:00am). Core generalist specialty support resources are in place. A dedicated portable ultrasound is based in the ER and 24-hour emergent CT scanning is available on site. The hospital has 70 acute care beds with a 6-bed ICU. Specialty services include Anesthesia, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Family Medicine (Hospitalist), and 24-hour Emergency coverage. Further supportive services include 24-hour diagnostic imaging and laboratory services, physiotherapy, respiratory therapy, chemotherapy, pharmacy, dialysis, ICU/Cardiac, and palliative care. Visiting services for ophthalmology and urology are also available. Work Environment Carbonear is a beautiful rural town approximately 100 kilometres outside of St. John's, serving around 50,000 people in the Rural Avalon Region. The community offers many amenities including hiking, a swimming pool, soccer pitch, biking and walking trails, restaurants, local theatre, and shopping. For more information visit: www.carbonear.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUALIFICATIONS Medical Degree (MD) from a recognized institution Current certification in ACLS, BLS, PALS, and ATLS 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 Work solo ER shifts with Nurse Practitioner support during weekday daytime hours Perform and interpret point-of-care ultrasound as required Collaborate with core specialty and support services available on site Participate in equitable and predictable shift scheduling Support person- and family-centered care; promote patient and worker safety by integrating safety into work practices, identifying risks, and implementing improvements ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REMUNERATION Remuneration is in accordance with the Medical Care Plan (MCP) guidelines for Category A Emergency Departments. Annual Retention Bonus (in accordance with current MOA): CAD 5,000 after 12 eligible months CAD 10,000 after 24 eligible months CAD 15,000 after 36 eligible months Relocation Support: NL Health Services is prepared to provide assistance to offset relocation expenses, contingent on a 24-month return-in-service agreement. Relocation expenses will be approved in accordance with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Relocation Policy: https://www.gov.nl.ca/exec/tbs/policies/benefits/relocation/ https://workinhealthnl.ca/incentives/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW TO APPLY All qualified persons are encouraged to apply. Interested candidates are asked to submit applications via our careers webpage: https://nlhs.service-now.com/nlhsjobs?id=sc_category&sys_id=2e73061a1bccf5101355cbf2604bcb48 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.