Locum - Primary Maternity Care (Pmc) - Yarmouth - Nova Scotia Health Authority
Description
Requisition ID: 45211Opportunity Type:
Locum
Estimated Annual Salary: 150, ,000
Type of Remuneration:
Daily Rate
Site Visit &
Reallocation Allowance Programs:
Relocation Program; Site Visit Program
About This Opportunity:
Yarmouth Regional Hospital (YRH) is seeking family physicians to join the family medicine primary maternity care (PMC) group on a locum or part time basis.
The Yarmouth PMC group is looking for locums to help fill our schedule over the coming months, especially July to October, 2022.
The stipend is $1800/day for work done 8am-5pm, and extra billing for assessments or deliveries after hours. You can choose to work one day at a time, or several in a row.The group runs a shared prenatal clinic with nurse and clerical support, providing prenatal and obstetrical care for women per year.
The clinic disperses the patients throughout the week from Monday to Friday, shifts are divided among the group. There is always an obstetrician on call for consultations, and pediatricians are on call 20 days per month. Anesthesia and respiratory therapists coverage as well. NRP is required. If you are interested in working in our very collegial hospital we are happy to work around your availability.
YRH was originally founded in 1912 and has developed into a vast health care complex serving the 58,000 people of Shelburne, Yarmouth, and Digby Counties.
- Dalhousie School of Nursing
- chronic pain clinic
- kidney clinic
Services:
- alternate level of care unit
- ambulatory care
- anesthesiology
- cancer care centre
- cardiac investigation and respiratory services
- continuing care
- diabetes education
- diagnostic imaging
- dialysis
- emergency medicine
- falls prevention
- intensive care unit
- mental health and addictions services
- obstetrics and gynecology
- occupational therapy
- palliative care
- physiotherapy
- pre-natal clinic
- public health
- recreation therapy
- spiritual care
- stroke program
- surgical unit
Responsibilities:
- be accountable for appropriate workload and practice
- provide care and coordination of community-based care and secondary and tertiary level heath care
- operate within the Bylaws and Rules and Regulations of Nova Scotia Health Authority
Expected Hours:
- part-time - locum
- on call requirement (1:5)
Qualifications:
- all applicants must be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia (CPSNS)
- all family physicians must be eligible for certification with the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC)
- membership with the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA)
Community Details:
Yarmouth is located at the southwestern most tip of Nova Scotia serving a population of approximately 60,000 in three counties.
There is so much to enjoy about the Southwestern end of Nova Scotia, including a unique and storied Acadian French history and beaches that take your breath away Yarmouth is also connected to the United States through an international ferry service that makes cross border adventures possible with ease.
Our enviable combination of urban amenities and rural natural beauty offers an excellent quality of life for the people that live here.
Nova Scotia offers the medical professional opportunities found in larger cities while maintaining a work-life balance in livable, walkable, and affordable communities.
Why practice here?
To learn more about living and working in Yarmouth please see
Edge of Everywhere
video and
Yarmouth and Acadian Shores.**- Physicians in Nova Scotia provide fulfilling patient care which embraces family life, professional development and community involvement.
Physicians are increasingly attracted to practices that offer team-based care to their patients and allow them to consult with their peers.
The size and scale of Nova Scotia allows for better connections across the health care system. Your practice of medicine and your life is richer here. Nova Scotia is more than medicine._More jobs from Nova Scotia Health Authority
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