Emergency Medicine Physician

@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Overview

Dr. G.B. Cross Memorial Hospital in Clarenville, NL is hiring two full-time fee-for-service Emergency Medicine physicians for its 24-hour Category A emergency department. Duties include solo ER shifts with nurse practitioner support on weekday days, point-of-care ultrasound, and occasional ambulance transfer escort and operating room assistance. Shifts are templated, with a minimum of 13 to 14 per month (10-hour day, 14-hour night), and an annual retention bonus is offered.

Responsibilities:

Provide comprehensive emergency care to patients of all ages
Work solo ER shifts with nurse practitioner support on weekdays
Perform and interpret point-of-care ultrasound
Participate in ambulance transfer escort and operating room assistance as required

Requirements summary:

Medical Degree (MD) from a recognized institution
Eligible for licensure with CPSNL
Satisfactory criminal record and vulnerable sector checks
Excellent communication skills and team player approach

Tools & skills

Point-of-care ultrasound

Source and dates

Source type not verified · nlhs

Employer posting date: 2024-10-29
First seen by our source: 2026-11-05
Source record updated: 2026-11-05

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Job details

Seniority	Mid level
Department	Physicians & advanced practice
Hours per week	37.5
Schedule	day, evening, overnight
Travel	air: none · ground: minimal
Work setting	Hospital or clinic
Position	Sitting and standing
Physical demands	physical moderate · computer moderate
Languages	English
Licences & certifications	CPSNL licensure
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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Job description

Emergency Room Physician
Dr. G.B. Cross Memorial Hospital, Clarenville, NL

Fee For Service Physicians (2 Positions)
Permanent Full-time

Hours	75 Hours Bi-Weekly (Minimum 13–14 Shifts Per Month)
Salary	Fee-For-Service
Competition Number	VAC0003182
Posted Date	2024-10-30
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 Dr. G.B. Cross Memorial Hospital in Clarenville, NL. These positions are fee-for-service and available immediately. A shared 0.5 FTE appointment could potentially be considered as an alternative. ER shifts are allocated in an equitable and predictable templated format. ER MD shifting is solo, with ER Nurse Practitioner support from 8:00am–4:00pm on weekdays. A limited amount of second ER MD shifting is also available during peak periods. The position involves a minimum of 13–14 shifts per month — day shifts are 10 hours and night shifts are 14 hours. 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. MD ambulance transfer escort duties and operating room assistance may also be required. Excellent communication skills, a team player approach, and a strong commitment to high quality patient care are essential. Dr. G.B. Cross Memorial Hospital provides services to a catchment area of approximately 20,000 people. The hospital has 41 acute care beds including palliative care, medical/surgical, obstetrics, pediatric, and ICU beds, as well as 9 ER beds and 44 long-term care beds. Services include anesthesia, chemotherapy, family practice, general surgery, gynecology, obstetrics, ICU/Cardiac, internal medicine, laboratory, palliative care, pathology, pediatrics, psychiatry, radiology, respiratory therapy, ultrasonography, and 24-hour emergency (Category A). Visiting clinics include neurology and ophthalmology. Work Environment Clarenville is a vibrant service centre in eastern Newfoundland offering an exceptional quality of life. The town is near a national park, downhill and cross-country ski lodges, two golf courses, and hunting and fishing opportunities. Community amenities include a stadium, swimming pool, theatre, soccer pitch, running track, softball fields, playgrounds, hiking trails, and snowmobile trails. For more information visit: https://clarenville.ca/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUALIFICATIONS Medical Degree (MD) from a recognized institution 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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 Participate in MD ambulance transfer escort duties and operating room assistance 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 Available Incentives: Free housing accommodation for the first month of employment Relocation assistance contingent on a 24-month return-in-service agreement — 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 inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and employment equity. Accommodations are available upon request throughout the selection process.