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Posted 18 months ago

Family Medicine Physician

@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

Newfoundland and Labrador

Full-time

SIGNALS

Overview

NL Health Services is hiring a full-time family medicine physician at the Labrador South Health Centre in Forteau. The role covers full-scope family medicine including obstetrics and emergency medicine, with 75 hours bi-weekly plus after-hours on-call. Salary is CAD 233,405.83 to 252,636.29, with signing and relocation incentives.

Responsibilities:

Provide full-scope family medicine including obstetrics and emergency medicine
Provide on-call coverage including weekends and holidays
Work collaboratively with physicians and nurses
Support person- and family-centred care and patient safety

Requirements summary:

MD from a recognized institution
Eligible for CPSNL registration and licensure
Meet Labrador-Grenfell Zone credentialing requirements
Relevant clinical experience (asset)
Satisfactory RCMP or police certificate of conduct

Source and dates

Source type not verified · nlhs

Employer posting date: 2025-05-17
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	37.5
Schedule	day, holidays, weekends
Travel	air: none · ground: none
Work setting	Hospital or clinic, Client sites
Position	Sitting and standing
Physical demands	physical low · computer moderate
Languages	English
Licences & certifications	CPSNL registration
Background checks	criminal record
Education	Professional degree (MD, JD…) (required)
Fields of study	Medicine
Perks mentioned	Retirement plan, Relocation assistance, Visa sponsorship, Signing bonus, Performance bonus

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Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Job description

Labrador Grenfell Zone Forteau - Labrador South Health Centre Family Medicine Physician Permanent Full-time: Salaried

Hours	75 Hours Bi-Weekly plus afterhours on call
Salary	CAD 233,405.83 – CAD 252,636.29
Competition Number	VAC0011532
Posted Date	2025-05-18
Closing Date	Open until filled.
Demands, duties, qualifications	About Us NL Health Services is 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 – Labrador-Grenfell Zone is seeking a Family Practice Physician to join the team at the Labrador South Health Centre in Forteau, NL. This is an excellent opportunity to practice full-scope family medicine in a collaborative environment while contributing to high-quality patient care in the region. This opportunity is available immediately. Forteau is a welcoming coastal community on the Labrador Straits, offering a safe and peaceful environment surrounded by stunning scenery and rich cultural heritage. The successful candidate will enjoy a broad scope of practice and work closely with a supportive interdisciplinary team. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUALIFICATIONS Eligible for registration and licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador (www.cpsnl.ca) Must satisfy credentialing requirements of the Labrador-Grenfell Zone Medical Degree (MD) from a recognized institution Relevant clinical experience (asset) Satisfactory Certificate of Conduct from the RCMP or local police authority Satisfactory record of work performance and attendance ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Provide full scope of practice including obstetrics, emergency medicine, and family medicine Provide on-call coverage including weekends and holidays Work collaboratively with a team of physicians and nurses to deliver required services Support person- and family-centered care; promote patient and worker safety by integrating safety into work practices, identifying risks, and implementing improvements ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REMUNERATION Remuneration will be in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement for salaried physicians in Newfoundland and Labrador. Available Incentives: Physician Signing Bonus — $150,000 + $25,000 top-up Physician Recruitment Incentive Pilot — $200,000 ($100,000 per year) Come Home Incentive — $100,000 (if eligibility criteria are met) Approved relocation expenses paid at 100% with a two-year commitment to NL Health Services Salaried Retention Bonus Employer-Sponsored RRSP Comprehensive Benefits Package Temporary Accommodation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW TO APPLY Interested candidates are asked to submit: Curriculum Vitae (CV) Supporting documentation (as applicable) Three (3) professional references Note: Applicants who do not provide the required documentation will not be considered. For more information or to apply, please contact: Jennifer Sexton [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LEARN MORE ABOUT PRACTICING IN NL https://workinhealthnl.ca/ NL Health Services is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates.

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