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Pediatric Surgery

@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

Newfoundland and Labrador

Full-time

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Overview

NL Health Services is hiring a permanent full-time Pediatric Surgeon for the Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre in St. John's, NL. The role covers inpatient and outpatient pediatric surgery, elective and emergency procedures, and shared on-call duties. Pay follows the Alternate Payment Plan, with 75 hours biweekly plus on-call obligations.

Responsibilities:

Provide inpatient and outpatient pediatric surgical care
Perform elective and emergency pediatric procedures
Deliver consultations to referring physicians and teams
Participate in shared on-call coverage
Contribute to teaching and scholarly activities

Requirements summary:

MD from a recognized institution
Royal College certification in Pediatric Surgery or equivalent
Eligible for CPSNL licensure
Satisfactory criminal record and vulnerable sector checks
Subspecialty training an asset

Source and dates

Source type not verified · nlhs

Employer posting date: 2026-08-13
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

Seniority	Senior
Department	Physicians & advanced practice
Hours per week	37.5
Schedule	day, evening, overnight
Travel	air: none · ground: none
Work setting	Hospital or clinic, Laboratory
Position	Sitting and standing
Physical demands	physical moderate · computer moderate
Licences & certifications	Royal College Certification in Pediatric Surgery, CPSNL licensure
Background checks	criminal record, vulnerable sector
Education	Professional degree (MD, JD…) (required)
Fields of study	Medicine, Pediatric Surgery
Perks mentioned	Relocation assistance, Performance bonus

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Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Job description

Pediatric Surgery Zone: Eastern Zone Location: Janeway Children’s Health and Rehabilitation Centre, St. John’s, NL Pediatric Surgery Permanent Full-time

Hours	75 Hours Bi-Weekly + On-Call Obligations
Salary	Alternate Payment Plan (APP)
Competition Number	VAC0027944
Posted Date	2026-08-14
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 Urban Zone invites applications for a permanent full-time Pediatric Surgeon at the Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre in St. John's, NL. The successful candidate will join an established and collaborative Pediatric Surgery team, providing comprehensive surgical care to children and adolescents across Newfoundland and Labrador. The position includes both inpatient and outpatient pediatric surgical services, with on-call coverage shared equitably among the physician group. The Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre is a 71-bed tertiary care referral hospital for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. The successful candidate will have opportunities for teaching, research, and scholarly activities. Work Environment St. John's is a vibrant, historic city on the eastern tip of North America, offering a warm and welcoming community, a thriving arts and culture scene, and easy access to the stunning natural landscapes of the Avalon Peninsula — including whale watching, hiking, and some of the most dramatic coastlines in Canada. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUALIFICATIONS Medical Degree (MD) from a recognized institution Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Certification in Pediatric Surgery (or equivalent) Eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador (www.cpsnl.ca) Must satisfy credentialing and privilege requirements of NL Health Services including a satisfactory criminal record check and vulnerable sector check Subspecialty training or interest considered an asset Eligibility for academic appointment with the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador considered an asset ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Provide comprehensive pediatric surgical care including inpatient and outpatient services Perform elective and emergency pediatric surgical procedures Deliver consultations to referring physicians and interdisciplinary teams Participate in on-call coverage shared equitably among the Pediatric Surgery team Contribute to teaching and scholarly activities through the Memorial University affiliation Work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary pediatric surgical and clinical team 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 Alternate Payment Plan (APP). Available Incentives: Candidates may be eligible for recruitment and retention incentives, subject to applicable terms, conditions, and program availability at the time of offer. Relocation coverage — https://www.gov.nl.ca/exec/tbs/policies/benefits/relocation/ Provincial incentives — https://workinhealthnl.ca/incentives/#all-incentives ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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.