About the Role
The department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Sydney is seeking a full-time child and adolescent psychiatrist to work in collaboration with other clinical teams in Cape Breton. The successful candidate will be able to participate in teaching through the family medicine residency program based in Sydney and/or with medical students through Dalhousie University.
Responsibilities
- Provide care and coordination of community-based care, and secondary and tertiary level health care.
- Provide direct clinical outpatient care.
- Provide emergency medicine services in conjunction with our crisis team.
- Operate within the Bylaws and Rules and Regulations of Nova Scotia Health Authority.
- Participate in quality improvement and evaluation activities.
Requirements
- All specialists must be eligible for certification with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada(RCPSC).
- All applicants must be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia (CPSNS).
- Coverage with the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA), or proof of alternative coverage.
Location
- Sydney
- Cape Breton
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
Salary/Compensations
- up to CAD 236.01 - hourly
Benefits
- health and dental
- EMR grants
- funded locum coverage
- CME funding
- parental leave
- physician advisors
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 are 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.
