Family Physician

FT/PT Family Physician
**Status**: Full-time/Part-Time, permanent
**Location**: Owen Sound, ON (on-site)
**Hours**: 28 to 35 hours/week
**Salary**: Up to $292,365* per PSA ($160.64 per hour)
**Paid Time Off**: 3 weeks vacation, 12 health & 3 personal days, 5 spiritual/cultural days, professional development, and your birthday off (pro-rated for part-time)

**Benefits**: Comprehensive health, dental, life insurance, and more
**Pension**: HOOPP (defined benefit pension plan)
**Posting Date**: August 7, 2025
**Deadline**: Open Until Filled
Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (SOAHAC) is a diverse, dynamic, multiservice Indigenous health and wellness agency. We strive to provide quality, wholistic health services by sharing and promoting traditional and western health practices to enable people to live in a more balanced state of well-being. SOAHAC provides services to Indigenous people including those who live on and off reserve, status, non-status, Inuit, and Metis within the Southwest, Waterloo Wellington and Erie St Clair regions. SOAHAC has a mandate of ensuring that health services are accessible, of high quality, and are culturally appropriate. It is SOAHAC’s objective to build health care capacity within Indigenous communities.
Are you a knowledgeable, driven practitioner who is passionate about making a tangible difference? We are looking for a Family Physician to join the SOAHAC team at our site located in Owen Sound, Ontario. Reporting to the Integrated Care Manager in Owen Sound, the Family Physician is responsible for providing comprehensive, patient-centered Primary Care which emphasizes accessibility, health promotion, illness prevention and continuity of care for Indigenous people living off-reserve and surrounding First Nations communities. The physician provides care to individuals across the life span, promoting a wholistic approach to assist individuals, families and groups to achieve an optimal state of health and well-being. The Physician works in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team including mental health and traditional healing services and provides consultation to the Nurse Practitioners as needed. This position will require some travel to surrounding First Nations communities.
Why work with us?
- Make an Impact: Your work will amplify SOAHAC’s mission, ensuring that Indigenous communities have access to vital, wholistic health services.
- Innovative and Collaborative Environment: Work in a multidisciplinary setting that values the exchange of ideas, innovation, and collective learning.
- Professional Growth: Benefit from meaningful professional development opportunities in a culturally rich environment that supports your career aspirations.
- Supportive Benefits Package: Enjoy competitive pay, a supportive benefits package, and meaningful time off to ensure your personal well-being.

**What we’re looking for**:

- Experience: Medical Degree and current license to practice medicine in the province of Ontario.
- Indigenous Cultural Knowledge and Understanding: Knowledge of the legacy of residential schools, colonization, assimilation, and the impacts of such history on the health of individuals.
- Cultural Sensitivity & Awareness: A genuine respect for Indigenous cultures and practices, with an openness to learning and engaging with Indigenous communities. Possess and thorough understanding of the social/societal determinants of health of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Experience with Indigenous communities is an asset.
- Clinical Knowledge: Function as a member of a multi-disciplinary team (including Primary Care, Mental Health, and Traditional Healing) with respect, professionalism, co-operation, and cultural sensitivity. Possess the ability to work with a collaborative, pro-choice, trauma-informed, harm-reduction-focused, and client-centered approach, with a commitment to providing the highest level of client and family-centered care.
- Leadership: Strong leadership skills and relationship building abilities to support the interdisciplinary staff team and wholistic model of care.
- Teamwork and Collaboration: You are a team player who can work independently while contributing to broader organizational goals.
- Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact positively with community members, management, and staff
- Additional Requirements: You have a valid driver’s license and access to a vehicle, as travel within the region may be needed. You’ll also need a clean police check and up-to-date immunizations and records.

**What you’ll do**:

- Primary Care: Provide comprehensive primary care services to clients of all ages, including primary prevention, health education, comprehensive physical exams, chronic disease management, antenatal care, palliative care and acute/episodic visits. Provide primary care indirectly by working interactively with nurse practitioners, providing consultation to nurses or other staff. Cond