Posted 7 months ago
Family Medicine Physician
@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services
Newfoundland and Labrador
Overview
NL Health Services – Central Zone is hiring a locum Family Medicine Physician for temporary full-time coverage at three community health centres in central Newfoundland. The role provides full-scope family medicine, including obstetrics, emergency medicine and primary care, with inpatient and outpatient care and on-call coverage that includes weekends and holidays. Pay follows NL Health Services locum rates, and placement varies by site and need.
Responsibilities:
- Provide full-scope family medicine including obstetrics and emergency care
- Participate in inpatient and outpatient care
- Provide on-call coverage including weekends and holidays
- Work with interdisciplinary teams at each site
- Promote patient and worker safety
Requirements summary:
- Eligible for registration with CPSNL as a Family Medicine Physician
- Medical Degree (MD) from a recognized institution
- Satisfactory criminal record and vulnerable sector checks
- Satisfactory Certificate of Conduct from RCMP or local police
- Relevant clinical experience (asset)
Source and dates
Source type not verified · nlhs
- Employer posting date
- 2026-04-21
- 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
| Department | Physicians & advanced practice |
| Hours per week | 75 |
| Schedule | day, holidays, weekends |
| Travel | air: none |
| Work setting | Hospital or clinic |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Licences & certifications | CPSNL registration, Certificate of Conduct |
| Background checks | criminal record, vulnerable sector |
| Education | Professional degree (MD, JD…) (required) |
| Fields of study | Medicine |
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 Medicine — Locum Family Medicine Physician |
|---|
| Hours | 75 Bi-weekly |
| Salary | As per Locum Rates |
| Competition Number | VAC0023948 |
| Posted Date | 2026-04-22 |
| 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 Locum Family Medicine Physicians to provide coverage across three community health centres in central Newfoundland:
These positions offer an excellent opportunity to practice full-scope family medicine in welcoming rural communities while contributing to high-quality patient care across the Central Zone. Assignments will vary by site and operational need — candidates may be placed at one or more locations depending on availability and service requirements. Work Environment Central Zone encompasses some of Newfoundland's most scenic and diverse communities — from the rugged coastlines of the Baie Verte Peninsula and the sheltered harbours of the Connaigre Peninsula, to the rolling landscapes of the Kittiwake Coast near Brookfield. Each community offers a safe, welcoming environment and access to outstanding outdoor recreation in one of Canada's most naturally stunning regions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUALIFICATIONS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REMUNERATION Compensation will be in accordance with applicable NL Health Services locum policies. Incentives are based on the locum policy — contact the recruiter for details. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW TO APPLY Interested candidates are asked to submit:
Applicants who submit all required documentation will be considered for the review process. For more information or to apply, please contact: Cassandra Hodder [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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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