Posted 11 months ago
Family Care Team Physician
@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services
Newfoundland and Labrador
Overview
Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services is hiring a permanent full-time salaried Family Physician for the Port aux Basques Family Care Team in the Western Zone. The role provides family practice clinic coverage, Category B emergency room coverage, and shared after-hours, weekend and statutory holiday on-call duties. Hours are 75 per two weeks plus on-call obligations, with salary set by the Memorandum of Agreement.
Responsibilities:
- Provide primary care in family medicine clinics
- Provide Category B emergency room coverage
- Share Monday to Friday clinic coverage equally with site physicians
- Participate in after-hours, weekend and holiday on-call coverage
- Work with the Family Care Team interdisciplinary team
Requirements summary:
- Medical degree from a recognized institution
- Eligibility for licensure as a family physician in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Current ACLS certification
- Satisfactory criminal record and vulnerable sector checks
- Emergency room experience considered an asset
Source and dates
Source type not verified · nlhs
- Employer posting date
- 2025-12-09
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-05
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-05
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Physicians & advanced practice |
| Hours per week | 37.5 |
| Schedule | day, evening, holidays, weekends, overnight |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Hospital or clinic |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | Licensure as a Family Physician with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of N, ACLS |
| Background checks | criminal record, vulnerable sector |
| Education | Professional degree (MD, JD…) (required) |
| Fields of study | Medicine |
| Perks mentioned | Relocation assistance, Performance bonus |
Summary and details written by AI from the posting; the employer’s posting is the authority.
Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 997 |
Family Care Team Physician Family Care Team Physician |
|---|
| Hours | 75 Hours Bi-Weekly + On-Call Obligations |
| Salary | As per Memorandum of Agreement |
| Competition Number | VAC0019403 |
| Posted Date | 2025-12-10 |
| 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 – Western Zone is seeking a permanent full-time salaried Family Physician to provide primary care at the Port aux Basques Medical Clinic as a member of the Port aux Basques Family Care Team and Dr. Charles LeGrow Health Centre in Port aux Basques, NL. Locum opportunities are also available. The position includes clinical and emergency room duties involving family practice. Clinic coverage runs Monday to Friday, divided equally between the salaried Family Physicians at this site. After-hours, weekend, and statutory holiday on-call assignments are shared on an equitable basis with the Family Physicians serving the community. Additional income is generated through billings for Category B Emergency Room coverage. Work Environment Port aux Basques is a welcoming gateway community on the southwest tip of Newfoundland, offering stunning coastal scenery, a strong sense of community, and easy access to the natural beauty of the surrounding region. For more information visit: https://www.portauxbasques.ca/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUALIFICATIONS
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LEARN MORE ABOUT PRACTICING IN NL NL Health Services is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. |
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