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Family Medicine Physician

@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

Newfoundland and Labrador

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Overview

NL Health Services – Central Zone is hiring two permanent full-time Family Medicine Physicians for the Lewisporte Health Centre in Lewisporte, NL. The work includes shared emergency coverage at the site plus equitable after-hours, weekend and statutory holiday on-call. Pay is fee-for-service under the Medical Care Plan, with signing and relocation incentives listed.

Responsibilities:

Provide emergency coverage at Lewisporte Health Centre
Share after-hours, weekend and holiday on-call
Work with interdisciplinary physician and allied health team
Promote person- and family-centred care and safety

Requirements summary:

Medical Degree (MD) from a recognized institution
Eligible for licensure with CPSNL
Rural emergency experience an asset
Satisfactory criminal record and vulnerable sector checks

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

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	evening, holidays, weekends, overnight
Travel	air: none · ground: none
Work setting	Hospital or clinic
Position	Sitting and standing
Physical demands	physical low · computer moderate
Licences & certifications	CPSNL licensure
Background checks	criminal record, vulnerable sector
Education	Professional degree (MD, JD…) (required)
Fields of study	Medicine
Perks mentioned	Relocation assistance, Signing bonus, Performance bonus

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Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Job description

Family Medicine Physician Permanent Full-Time Central Zone Location: Lewisporte Health Centre, Lewisporte, NL

Hours	75hrs biweekly plus on call obligations
Salary	Fee for service as per the MCP payment schedule
Competition Number	VAC0010930
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 two (2) permanent full-time Family Medicine Physicians for the Lewisporte Health Centre in Lewisporte, NL. 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. The successful candidates will provide Emergency coverage at the Lewisporte Health Centre, with work shared equally among the physicians at this site. After-hours, weekend, and statutory holiday on-call assignments are shared on an equitable basis. Additional income is generated through billings for Category B Emergency Room coverage. Work Environment Lewisporte is a welcoming community in central Newfoundland, known for its beautiful waterfront, strong sense of community, and easy access to outdoor recreation. For more information visit: www.lewisporte.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUALIFICATIONS Medical Degree (MD) from a recognized institution Eligible for licensure as a Family Medicine Physician with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador (www.cpsnl.ca) Rural emergency experience 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 coverage at the Lewisporte Health Centre with work shared equally among site physicians Participate in after-hours, weekend, and statutory holiday on-call coverage on an equitable basis Work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team of physicians and allied health professionals 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 Fee-For-Service in accordance with the Medical Care Plan (MCP) guidelines for Category B Emergency Departments. Additional income is generated through billings for Category B Emergency Room coverage. 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.

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