Posted 9 months ago
Thoracic Surgery Physician
@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services
Newfoundland and Labrador
Overview
NL Health Services is hiring a permanent full-time Thoracic Surgeon for the Thoracic Surgery Division at St. Clare's Mercy Hospital in St. John's, NL. The role covers inpatient surgical care, consultations, follow-up and ambulatory clinic work, with shared on-call duties. Remuneration is under the Alternate Payment Plan (APP), with relocation coverage and provincial incentives available.
Responsibilities:
- Provide surgical care to thoracic inpatients, including consultations and surgery
- Deliver outpatient follow-up care in an ambulatory clinic
- Participate in shared on-call schedule
- Work within an academic surgical team
Requirements summary:
- MD from a recognized institution
- RCPSC certification in General Surgery with thoracic surgery subspecialty
- Eligible for licensure with CPSNL
- Satisfactory criminal record and vulnerable sector checks
Source and dates
Source type not verified · nlhs
- Employer posting date
- 2026-02-11
- 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 |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Hospital or clinic, Laboratory |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Background checks | criminal record, vulnerable sector |
| Education | Doctorate (required), Professional degree (MD, JD…) (required) |
| Fields of study | Medicine, General Surgery, Thoracic Surgery |
| Perks mentioned | 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 |
Thoracic Surgeon Permanent Full-Time St. Clare's Mercy Hospital Eastern Urban Zone |
Hours | 75 hours bi-weekly plus on-call obligations |
Salary | Alternate Payment Plan (APP) |
Competition Number | VAC0021485 |
Posted Date | 2026-02-12 |
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 has an immediate opening for a permanent full-time Thoracic Surgeon to join the Thoracic Surgery Division at St. Clare's Mercy Hospital in St. John's, NL. The successful candidate will join an established group in an academic setting and will be primarily responsible for a clinical workload consisting of the surgical care of inpatients — including consultations, surgery, and follow-up visits — as well as outpatient care in an ambulatory clinic setting. On-call commitment will be shared equitably with other physicians in the Thoracic Surgery Division. 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
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