General Practitioner/Family Practitioner

Job Category: Family Practice

Job Type: Permanent Full Time

Salary/Rate: Approximately $300,000-350,000 per year

Number of Positions Open: 1

Start Date of Employment: ASAP

Northern Health is seeking Family Physicians for a variety of Primary Care opportunities in Fort St. John, British Columbia. We have flexible, rewarding opportunities available for physicians at all stages of their career, and we’d be happy to discuss these with you!

The new Fort St. John Hospital and Residential Care opened in 2012. The facility has 55 acute care beds and 123 residential care beds with approximately 22,000 emergency visits per year. 
• Endoscopy suite
• 2 state of the art operating rooms plus procedure room
• Ambulatory clinics including cancer clinics and Hemodialysis
• Medical and surgical inpatient rooms
• ICU
• Prenatal Clinic and Birthing Centre

Fort St. John Health Unit offering:
• Public Health
• Home care nursing
• Home support
• Community rehabilitation
• Nutrition
• Social workers services
• Environmental Health
• Audiology
• Dental Health 

North Peace Care Clinic, an 87 bed residential complex care facility offering health services, including:
• respite
• Adult day program
• Psycho geriatric services

Fort St. John is known as “The Energetic City,” which reflects the large resource base of oil, natural gas, forestry and agriculture, and the vitality of its residents who are keen to live and work in a community that gives back so much. Fort St. John sits high above the spectacular Peace River Valley, Northwest of Dawson Creek and Southeast of Fort Nelson, where endless patchwork quilts of cropland melt into the horizon. The population is 19,000, but serves an area population of 69,000. Fort St. John is the hub of the Northeast with a new cultural center and library, theatre and art space. The main industries are agriculture, forestry, natural gas, construction and trucking. There are six elementary schools, two junior high schools, one senior high school and Northern Lights College provides adult education.

$20,000 Sign-On Bonus and $15,000 Relocation Assistance is Available!

Company: Northern Health Authority, 230, 9900 - 100 Ave. Fort St John BC V1J 5S7 
Site location: Fort St John Hospital & Peace Villa, 8407 - 112 Ave., Fort St John BC V1J 0J5

Contact Information:

Company Name: Northern Health Authority

Contact Name: Jacquelyn Page

Title: Coordinator, Medical Staff Retention and Recruitment

Email Address: [email protected]

In order to be eligible for British Columbia licensure your postgraduate training must meet the requirements of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. Post graduate training must be obtained from an accredited and approved training program in a jurisdiction sanctioned by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. At this time, those countries are: Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, and Australia. Please visit the following website for further information. http://www.cfpc.ca/ProjectAssets/Templates/Column1a.aspx?id=280&langType=4105&terms=jurisdictions