Urgent FP-ER Locum Opportunity

Northern Health is seeking locum physicians to work in the Kitimat General Hospital & Health Centre Emergency Department in Kitimat, British Columbia.

Income Guarantee: Days $3413/shift (weekday) or $3710/shift (weekend day). Nights $3817/shift (weekday or weekend). Compensation includes FFS, MOCAP and REEF.

**Locum travel and accommodation will be covered. Travel stipend: $250.00-$1500.00 based on time.

Day Shifts are 0800 – 2000 and nights are 2000 – 0800. Day shift averages approximately 20-30 patients and night averages 10 patients.

Kitimat General Hospital and Health Centre integrates acute care, residential care, public health and community health in one facility. The hospital contains 20 acute care beds, including 2 maternity beds.

Services include Emergency, Physiotherapy, Radiology, Laboratory, Diabetes and Chronic Disease management, Outpatient Community Chemotherapy clinic, Regional Orthopaedic Centre, Regional Palliative Care Nurse consultant, Mountainview Lodge – a 36-bed residential and complex care facility, and a Public Health team.

The hospital hosts a regular rotation of visiting specialists in internal medicine, urology, ENT, dermatology, neurology, ophthalmology and radiology.

Set in a beautiful and natural ocean, mountain, and valley paradise, Kitimat is located on the Douglas Channel just a few miles off British Columbia’s inside passage. Main industries include an aluminum smelter, a pulp and paper mill and a petrochemical manufacturer. The population of Kitimat is approximately 8,236.