Full Scope Family Medicine - Guysborough

Guysborough Memorial Hospital (GMH) is seeking two full-time, full-scope family physicians to work in the facility's family practice clinic, Level 4 Emergency Dept, inpatient, and adjacent long term care facility. Guysborough Memorial Hospital (GMH) serves the health care needs of the residents of Guysborough County. Located in Guysborough, the area enjoys outstanding healthcare through the recently expanded GMH and its talented team of healthcare professionals.

The physicians of the 10-bed facility and Emergency Dept. are supported by specialists at St. Martha’s Regional Hospital (45min away) and other healthcare facilities in the province. GMH also has a partnership with the Guysborough Youth Health Center and is adjacent to a 50-bed long-term care facility (Milford Haven Home for Special Care).

Services: 

• addiction services
• continuing care services
• cardiac and respiratory services
• diagnostic imaging (including X-ray and EKG)
• 24/7 emergency medicine
• laboratory services
• medical and surgical unit
• mental health and addiction services
• obstetrics and gynecology
• occupational therapy
• palliative care
• pediatrics
• physiotherapy
• public health services
• social work services

Responsibilities

GMH provides inpatient and outpatient care as well as several visiting clinics:

• diabetes education centre
• foot care clinic
• ophthalmology clinic
• pediatric clinic
• surgery consultation
• well men/women programs

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Examine patients and take their histories, order diagnostic tests and laboratory procedures;

• Advise patients on health care, health promotion, and disease prevention
• Consultation and referral to other medical practitioners
• Act as a patient’s advocate
• Prescribe and administer medications and treatments, inoculations and vaccinations
• Report births, deaths, contagious and other diseases as per Nova Scotia Public Health requirements

Expected Hours

• full-time 

• 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

Guysborough is a beautiful, close knit community located in the Eastern Zone.. Living in Guysborough means knowing the comforts and joys of small town and rural living within a spectacular natural environment. Seacoast, lakes, and rivers provide outstanding recreational opportunities, and communities throughout the Municipality host festivals and events in modern facilities. The Mulgrave Road Theatre and Chedabucto Performance Theatre, for instance, anchor a thriving cultural community. The Chedabucto Lifestyle Complex provides year-round sport and recreation opportunities like outdoor skating, track, and soccer. It also has indoor community rooms, a fitness centre, and gymnasiums. The community prides itself on keeping programming adorable to ensure no one is denied recreational opportunities, while maintaining the lowest residential taxes in Nova Scotia. Rural lifestyle with great amenities, neighbours, and proximity to larger centres.

In Guysborough, there is room here to grow, clean air to breathe, and friendly people. Physicians and their families build sustainable, rewarding lives in the most beautiful and unspoiled part of 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.  

 

Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. Our priority groups are Aboriginal People, African Nova Scotians, Persons with Disabilities and Recent Immigrants. Members of these groups are welcome to apply and self-identify if they wish to be considered under our Employment Equity policy.