Psychiatry Physician

@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Newfoundland and Labrador

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Overview

NL Health Services is hiring a full-time permanent psychiatrist at the Labrador Health Centre in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. The role provides psychiatric evaluation, treatment planning, medication management, consulting and telemedicine clinics across the Labrador-Grenfell Zone, plus on-call coverage. Base salary is $263,672 to $285,596 with incentives, and the posting lists 75 hours bi-weekly.

Responsibilities:

Évaluation psychiatrique, planification des traitements et gestion de la médication
Soutien à l'unité de santé mentale de Happy Valley-Goose Bay
Services de consultation dans toute la zone Labrador-Grenfell
Cliniques ambulatoires par télémédecine
Garde psychiatrique sur appel

Requirements summary:

Doctorat en médecine (MD) d'une institution reconnue
Admissibilité à l'inscription au Collège des médecins et chirurgiens de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
Expérience clinique pertinente (atout)
Certificat de bonne conduite satisfaisant de la GRC ou de la police locale

Tools & skills

Mental health

Benefits mentioned

Retirement planParental leave

Source and dates

Source type not verified · nlhs

Employer posting date: 2025-05-15
First seen by our source: 2026-11-05
Source record updated: 2026-11-05

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Job details

Department	Physicians & advanced practice
Hours per week	37.5
Schedule	day
Travel	air: none · ground: minimal
Work setting	Hospital or clinic, Office
Position	Sitting and standing
Physical demands	physical low · computer moderate
Languages	English
Licences & certifications	College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador registration
Background checks	criminal record
Education	Professional degree (MD, JD…) (required)
Perks mentioned	Retirement plan, Relocation assistance, Visa sponsorship, Signing bonus, Performance bonus, Home office allowance

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Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Headquarters	St. John's
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Job description

Psychiatry Position
LHC - Goose Bay - Labrador Health Centre

Labrador Grenfell Zone
Permanent Full-time

Hours	75 Hours Bi-Weekly
Salary	CAD 312,928.61 – CAD 338,948.24
Competition Number	VAC0011493
Posted Date	2025-05-16
Closing Date	Open until filled.
Demands, duties, qualifications	ABOUT NL HEALTH SERVICES NL Health Services is the provincial health authority providing a full continuum of health and community services — including public health, long-term care, community services, hospital care, and unique provincial programs — across Newfoundland and Labrador. We are committed to delivering quality care through a team of dedicated professionals focused on Healthy People, Healthy Communities. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY NL Health Services – Labrador-Grenfell Zone is seeking a Psychiatrist to join our multidisciplinary team at the Labrador Health Centre in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL. The team consists of family physicians, mental health counselors, and allied health professionals. This is an excellent opportunity to practice in a collaborative environment while contributing to high-quality mental health care across the region. Happy Valley-Goose Bay is a vibrant and growing community in central Labrador, offering a welcoming atmosphere, strong sense of community, and access to exceptional outdoor recreation in one of Canada's most unique natural landscapes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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 psychiatric evaluation, treatment planning, and medication management services Support the Mental Health Unit in Happy Valley-Goose Bay as part of a collaborative care team Provide consulting services across the Labrador-Grenfell Zone Deliver ambulatory care clinics via telemedicine link at Labrador Health Centre, Charles S. Curtis Memorial Hospital, and Labrador West Health Centre Support mental health services throughout the broader Labrador-Grenfell Zone Provide on-call coverage for Psychiatry Work collaboratively with a team of physicians and other 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 will be in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement for salaried physicians in Newfoundland and Labrador. Base Salary: $263,672 – $285,596 (Not including retention bonus, recognition of on-call responsibilities, and other applicable premiums.) Available Incentives: Physician Signing Bonus — $150,000 + $25,000 top-up (contact recruiter for details) Come Home Incentive — $100,000 (if eligibility criteria are met) Approved relocation expenses with a two-year commitment to NL Health Services Applicable Labrador Allowance 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.