Posted 25 months ago
Family Medicine Physician
@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services
Newfoundland and Labrador
Overview
NL Health Services is hiring two permanent full-time family medicine physicians at Placentia Health Centre in the Eastern Rural Zone. The work covers family medicine clinics, Category B emergency room coverage, patient transfers, equally shared on-call duty and long-term care inpatient duties. Hours are 75 per two weeks plus on-call, with pay set by the Memorandum of Agreement and free housing for the first 3 months.
Responsibilities:
- Family medicine clinics and Category B emergency room coverage
- Emergency care and patient transfers
- Equally shared on-call coverage at the site
- Long-term care inpatient duties and general practice clinics
- Collaboration with interdisciplinary teams
Requirements summary:
- Medical degree from a recognized institution
- Eligibility for CPSNL licensure
- Credentialing and privileging with NL Health Services
- Satisfactory criminal record and vulnerable sector checks
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
Source type not verified · nlhs
- Employer posting date
- 2024-10-31
- 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 | overnight |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Hospital or clinic, Care home |
| 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) |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, 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 Medicine Physician - 2 Positions Available Family/Emergency Physician |
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| Hours | 75 hours bi-weekly plus on call obligations |
| Salary | As per Memorandum of Agreement |
| Posted Date | 2024-11-01 |
| Competition Number | VAC0003293 |
| 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 invites applications for two (2) permanent full-time Family Medicine Physicians at the Placentia Health Centre in Placentia, NL. Placentia Health Centre is a 24-hour emergency Category B facility located along the southwest coast of the Avalon Peninsula, approximately 130 kilometres from St. John's — roughly an 80-minute drive via the Trans-Canada Highway. The centre is also conveniently located minutes from the Argentia ferry terminal via Route 100. The successful candidates will be accountable for the provision of comprehensive health care services including family medicine clinics and Category B emergency room coverage, emergency care and patient transfer, an equal distribution of on-call responsibility in the local Category B emergency room, and long-term care inpatient duties and general practice clinics. Work Environment Placentia is a historic and welcoming community on the southwest coast of the Avalon Peninsula, offering stunning coastal scenery, a rich cultural heritage, and easy access to the natural beauty of the surrounding region. For more information visit: www.placentia.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUALIFICATIONS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
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Available Incentives: Candidates may be eligible for recruitment and retention incentives, subject to applicable terms, conditions, and program availability at the time of offer.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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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