Posted 18 months ago
Surgery Physician
@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services
Newfoundland and Labrador
Overview
NL Health Services is hiring a General Surgeon for the Labrador Health Centre in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The role is a permanent full-time physician position of 75 hours biweekly plus on-call duties, covering surgery, inpatient and outpatient care, telehealth and regional travel. Salary is stated as CAD 312,928.61 to 338,948.24 plus on call, with signing bonus, relocation and Labrador allowance.
Responsibilities:
- Perform and supervise surgical procedures
- Provide inpatient and outpatient care
- Act as consultant to other physicians
- Deliver telehealth services
- Provide on-call General Surgery coverage including weekends and holidays
Requirements summary:
- Eligible for registration with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Medical Degree (MD) from a recognized institution
- Relevant clinical experience (asset)
- Satisfactory RCMP or police certificate of conduct
- Credentialing requirements of the Labrador-Grenfell Zone
Source and dates
Source type not verified · nlhs
- Employer posting date
- 2025-05-17
- 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 | day, holidays, weekends |
| Travel | air: none · ground: moderate |
| Work setting | Hospital or clinic |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer moderate |
| 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 |
Summary and details written by AI from the posting; the employer’s posting is the authority.
Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | St. John's |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1,001 |
| Labrador Grenfell Zone LHC - Goose Bay - Labrador Health Centre General Surgery Physician Labrador Grenfell Zone - Physician Permanent Full-time |
|---|
| Hours | 75 Hours Bi-weekly plus on call obligations |
| Salary | CAD 312,928.61 – CAD 338,948.24 Plus on call |
| Competition Number | VAC0011527 |
| Posted Date | 2025-05-18 |
| Closing Date | Open until filled. |
| Demands, duties, qualifications | ABOUT NL HEALTH SERVICES NL Health Services is 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 – Labrador-Grenfell Zone is seeking a General Surgeon to join the team at the Labrador Health Centre in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL. This is an excellent opportunity to practice in a collaborative environment while contributing to high-quality surgical 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. The successful candidate will enjoy a varied surgical caseload and work closely with a supportive interdisciplinary team. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUALIFICATIONS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REMUNERATION Remuneration will be in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement for salaried physicians in Newfoundland and Labrador. Base Salary: CDN 263,672 – CDN 285,596 Available Incentives:
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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 NL Health Services is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. |
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