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Palliative Medicine Physician

@ Fraser Health Authority

British Columbia

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Overview

Fraser Health is hiring a full or part-time locum palliative care physician to provide consultation in acute care and community settings and MRP coverage for the Palliative Complex Care Unit and Hospice. The role works alongside multidisciplinary palliative teams and teaching with UBC. Pay is by provincial service contract under the Alternative Payment Plan and MOCAP on-call payments.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide palliative care consultation in acute care sites
  • Provide consultation for community-based patients
  • Provide MRP coverage for the Palliative Complex Care Unit and Hospice
  • Work with multidisciplinary palliative care teams
  • Provide undergraduate and postgraduate teaching

Requirements summary:

  • CCFP (PC) or FRCSC in Palliative Medicine
  • One year enhanced skills residency or CAC
  • Eligibility for CPSBC medical licensure
  • Two-year Royal College subspecialty in Palliative Medicine preferred

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Employer posting date
2025-08-28
First seen by our source
2026-10-11
Source record updated
2026-10-11

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Job details

DepartmentPhysicians & advanced practice
Travelair: none · ground: minimal
Work settingHospital or clinic, Care home
PositionSitting and standing
Physical demandsphysical low · computer moderate
Licences & certificationsCCFP (PC), CAC, FRCSC
Fields of studyPalliative Medicine

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Fraser Health Authority

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The ❤️ of health care from Burnaby to Boston Bar on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations, and is home to 32 First Nations within the territories of the Fraser Salish region.

LinkedIn followers
92,159
People associated on LinkedIn
15,792
Reported office locations
  • 13450 102 Avenue, Surrey, BC V3T 0H1, CA
  • 32900 Marshall Road, Abbotsford, BC V2S 0C2, CA
  • 3935 Kindcaid Street, Burnaby, BC V5G 2X6, CA
  • 45600 Menholm Road, Chilliwack, BC V2P 1P7, CA
  • 5800 Mountain View Boulevard, Delta, BC V4K 3V6, CA
  • 475 Guildford Way, Port Moody, British Columbia V3H 3W9, CA
  • 1275 7th Ave, Hope, British Columbia V0X 1L4, CA
  • 9750 140th St, Surrey, British Columbia V3R 3G2, CA
  • 22051 Fraser Hwy, Langley, British Columbia V3A 4H4, CA
  • 11666 Laity St, Maple Ridge, British Columbia V2X 5A3, CA
  • 7324 Hurd St, Mission, British Columbia V2V 3H5, CA
  • 15521 Russell Ave, White Rock, British Columbia V4B 2R4, CA
  • 330 E Columbia St, New Westminster, British Columbia V3L 3W7, CA
  • 13750 96 Ave, Surrey, British Columbia V3V 1Z2, CA
Business categories
  • Health Diagnostics
  • Hospital
  • Health Care
  • Mental Health
Other recorded names
  • Fraser Health
  • Fraser Health Authority
Specialties
  • public health care
  • acute and community
  • mental health and substance use
  • home and community care
  • residential care
  • surgery
  • emergency care and trauma
  • labour and delivery
  • NICU
  • and environmental health
Profile identifies a recruitment agency
No
Reported total investment
24,030

Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.

The ❤️ of health care from Burnaby to Boston Bar on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations, and is home to 32 First Nations within the territories of the Fraser Salish region.

FieldValue
IndustryHospitals and Health Care
Company size10,001+ employees
HeadquartersSurrey, BC
Organization typeGovernment Agency
Year founded2001
Specialtiespublic health careacute and communitymental health and substance usehome and community careresidential caresurgeryemergency care and traumalabour and deliveryNICUand environmental health
Open jobs on Jobsy4,156
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Job description
Job Summary

Fraser Health requires a full or part-time locum palliative care physician to provide clinical service along with our multidisciplinary teams. This is an exciting opportunity, where you will work alongside other palliative care physicians to provide consultation services in acute care and for community-based patients. Additionally, you will provide MRP coverage to our Palliative Complex Care Unit (PCCU) and Hospice.

Throughout the Fraser Health Authority we provide integrated, regional, comprehensive palliative care services in a number of settings including 30 Palliative Complex Care Unit (PCCU) beds; consult services in 12 acute care sites as well as in the community and other settings; and support to 106 hospice beds. Additionally, we provide under-graduate and post-graduate teaching in affiliation with the Division of Palliative Care at the University of British Columbia.

The successful candidate will have:

  • One year enhanced skills residency and/or acquired the Certificate of Added Competence (CAC) through the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
  • Two year Royal College subspecialty in Palliative Medicine.

Eligibility for medical licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia is required.

Remuneration is by service contract at a rate set provincially by the Ministry of Health.


Compensation

Alternative Payment Plan, MOCAP - On Call Payments
Qualifications

CCFP (PC), CPSBC Full, FRCSC
Locations

Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre, Burnaby Hospital, Chilliwack General Hospital, Community - Abbotsford, Community - Burnaby, Community - Chilliwack, Community - Delta, Community - Hope, Community - Langley, Community - Maple Ridge, Community - Mission, Community - New Westminster, Community - Surrey, Community - White Rock, Delta Hospital, Eagle Ridge Hospital, Fraser Canyon Hospital, Langley Memorial Hospital, Mission Memorial Hospital, Peace Arch Hospital, Ridge Meadows Hospital, Royal Columbian Hospital, Surrey Memorial Hospital
About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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