Emergency Medicine Physician

@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Newfoundland and Labrador

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Overview

NL Health Services Central Zone is hiring two full-time emergency physicians for primary and double coverage shifts at James Paton Memorial Regional Health Centre in Gander, NL. The work covers 8-hour emergency department shifts, with some virtual care during double coverage hours. Pay is fee-for-service at roughly CAD 232 per hour, plus signing and relocation incentives.

Responsibilities:

Provide emergency physician services on primary and double coverage shifts
Work scheduled 8-hour shifts, 8am–4pm or 4pm–midnight
Provide virtual care during double coverage hours as required
Work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary Emergency Department team
Promote patient and worker safety in practice

Requirements summary:

Eligible for licensure as a Family Medicine Physician in Newfoundland and Labrador
Special competency in Emergency Medicine considered an asset
Satisfactory criminal record and vulnerable sector checks

Tools & skills

Emergency medicine Vulnerable sector check

Benefits mentioned

Parental leave

Source and dates

Source type not verified · nlhs

Employer posting date: 2025-05-03
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 (estimated)
Schedule	day, evening
Travel	air: none · ground: none
Work setting	Hospital or clinic
Position	Sitting and standing
Physical demands	physical moderate · computer moderate
Licences & certifications	Licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrad
Background checks	criminal record, vulnerable sector
Education	Doctorate (required)
Fields of study	Family Medicine
Perks mentioned	Relocation assistance, Signing bonus, 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	990

Job description

Family Medicine Physician Central Zone Location: James Paton Memorial Regional Health Centre, Gander, NL Double Coverage Emergency Room Physician Permanent Full-time

Hours	8-Hour Shifts (8:00am–4:00pm or 4:00pm–Midnight)
Salary	Fee-For-Service / Sessional
Competition Number	VAC0010933
Posted Date	2025-05-04
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 – Central Zone is seeking 2 full-time Emergency Medicine Physicians for Primary & Double Coverage Shifts at James Paton Memorial Regional Health Centre in Gander, NL. The successful candidates will work within the Emergency Department across primary and double coverage shifts (8:00am–4:00pm or 4:00pm–midnight) and may be responsible for the provision of virtual care during double coverage hours. Central Zone is the second largest health zone in NL Health Services, serving approximately 90,000 people across 176 communities. The region extends from Charlottetown in the east, Fogo Island in the north, Harbour Breton in the south, to Baie Verte in the west — encompassing more than half the total land mass of the island of Newfoundland. Work Environment Gander is a welcoming and well-serviced community in central Newfoundland, known for its friendly residents, rich aviation heritage, and easy access to the natural beauty of the region. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUALIFICATIONS Eligible for licensure as a Family Medicine Physician with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador (www.cpsnl.ca) Special competency in Emergency Medicine not required but considered an asset Must satisfy credentialing requirements of NL Health Services including a satisfactory criminal record check and vulnerable sector check ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Provide emergency physician services across primary and double coverage shifts Work scheduled 8-hour shifts — 8:00am–4:00pm or 4:00pm–midnight Provide virtual care services during double coverage hours as required Work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary Emergency Department team Support person- and family-centered care; promote patient and worker safety by integrating safety into work practices, identifying risks, and implementing improvements ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REMUNERATION Fee-For-Service at Category A hourly rate (Sessional) as per the MCP Payment Schedule. Sessional Rate: Approximately CAD 232.00 per hour Available Incentives: Physician Signing Bonus — CAD 150,000 + CAD 25,000 top-up Come Home Incentive — CAD 100,000 (if eligibility criteria are met) Relocation coverage — https://www.gov.nl.ca/exec/tbs/policies/benefits/relocation/ Provincial incentives — https://workinhealthnl.ca/incentives/#all-incentives Contact recruiter for further details on eligibility ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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.