Emergency Physician - Cape Breton Regional Hospital

Nova Scotia Healthcare System; Sydney; On-site; CAD 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental

EMR grants

Funded locum coverage

CME funding

Parental leave

Relocation incentives

Job summary

Nova Scotia Health is seeking an Emergency Physician for Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney to lead resuscitation efforts and manage a wide range of emergency presentations. The role includes working within a four-hospital complex and potential assignments in surrounding communities.

The successful candidate will join a diverse team and participate in ongoing quality improvement, with benefits including health insurance, CME funding, and relocation support as part of our incentives package.

Qualifications

• Current PALS Certification required.
• Current ATLS Certification required.
• Current ACLS Certification required.

Responsibilities

• Lead resuscitation and stabilization of major trauma and critically ill patients.
• Assess and manage the full spectrum of emergency medicine presentations across ages and conditions.
• Coordinate care across community-based and higher-level health services.
• Participate in quality improvement and evaluation activities.

Skills

Emergency medicine

Education

PALS Certification

ATLS Certification

ACLS Certification

Job description

• Full-time
• Expected Hours: Full-time hours (1.0 FTE)
• Zone: Eastern Zone
• Type of Remuneration: Other
• Incentive Programs Available: Yes

Company Description

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We're on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centers, and community-based programs we operate across the province.

Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

Job Description

Cape Breton Regional Hospital (CBRH)in Sydney, Cape Breton, is seeking emergency physicians.CBRH opened its door to patients in 1995. Now, it is the second largest acute care facility in Nova Scotia that serves more than 200,000 patients a year. It is part of a four hospital complex that also includes Glace Bay, New Waterford Consolidated, and Northside General Hospitals.The successful candidate will alsohave opportunity to work in these surrounding communities if they wish. CBRH has 162 acute care beds, 36 emergency beds, 23 intermediate and critical care beds, 40 maternal child beds, 52 mental health and addiction beds, and nine palliative care beds. The hospital provides a range of primary and secondary services through in-patient, outpatient, and community-based programs.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in the resuscitation and stabilization of major trauma patients and critically ill patients
• Appropriately assess and manage the full spectrum of emergency medicine presentations from injury to unexpected and undifferentiated medical and surgical illness in all ages, to mental health emergencies
• Provide care and coordination of community-based care, and secondary and tertiary level health care.
• Participate in quality improvement and evaluation activities.

Nova Scotia Health offers a variety of incentives designed to relieve some of the pressure, cost, and difficulty that comes with relocation.

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package including health and dental, EMR grants, funded locum coverage, CME funding, parental leave, physician advisors and more!

• all applicants must have a currentPALS Certification
• all applicants must have a currentATLS Certification
• all applicants must have a currentACLS Certification

Additional Information

Community Details

Sydney is a vibrant port city on the edge of the beautiful Cape Breton Highlands National Park . Cape Breton Regional Municipality is the second largest municipality in the province of Nova Scotia. With a population of approximately 115,000, Cape Breton Island is known for its rich history and incredible geography. You will find an island of magnificent natural beauty yet very modern. We host an array of shops, restaurants, golf courses, entertainment and amenities including an airport, with direct flights to Toronto and Halifax. In addition, the region remains young, diverse and vibrant as it is the home to Cape Breton University,the location for the new medical school opening in 2025!

Music is a large part of our cultural background. Sydney is surrounded by many smaller communities, each one offering its own uniqueness to an interested person. Here, kitchen parties are a way of life and you're never too far from the beautiful Highlands that inspired the region's first immigrants to name the province New Scotland. You will experience the view of a lifetime around every corner and surround yourself with the friendliest people in every community. Hike, cycle, swim, golf - all in an almost unreal beauty.

The physician community is diverse and our medical staff hail from all parts of the globe, including USA, UK, Europe and the Middle East. Internationally trained applicants are welcome to apply, and recruitment consultants are prepared to advise and support the licensing process.

Life is still quite affordable in Nova Scotia and home ownership (even waterfront!) is still attainable. Our communities are safe, inclusive, and an excellent quality of life available to you and your family. There are extensive community settlement supports available to newcomers.

Practicing in Nova Scotia

Physicians in Nova Scotia provide fulfilling patient care which embraces family life, professional development and community involvement. That's what makes practicing medicine in Nova Scotia unique. 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.

Building a Diverse Workforce

The Physician Recruitment Team at Nova Scotia Health lives and works in Mi'kma'ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaq people. We are dedicated to equity, diversity, inclusion, and truth and reconciliation, and we are working to support medical communities that is reflective of and responsive to the diverse populations they serve in Nova Scotia. We welcome physicians from diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us in building healthier, more equitable communities across the province.