Locum Emergency Physician, Strait Richmond Hospital

Strait Richmond Hospital (SRH) has locum opportunities available for emergency medicine physicians. SRH serves the health care needs of the residents of communities in Richmond County and the southern portion of Inverness County. The facility has 15 medicine beds and five restorative care beds that provides inpatient, outpatient, and satellite care. The two regional referral centres for the area include Cape Breton Regional Hospital (located in Sydney – approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes from SRH) and St. Martha's Regional Hospital (located in Antigonish – approximately 1 hour from SRH).

The site also houses a number of other interdisciplinary services:

• community based rehabilitation centre
• diabetes education
• diagnostic imaging
• dietitian
• emergency department
• foot care clinic
• hemodialysis
• laboratory services
• mental health & addictions services
• occupational therapy
• palliative care
• physiotherapy
• social work

The facility also has a number of visiting specialists:

• cardiology
• nephrology
• ophthalmology
• palliative care

• Duties include full scope of practice as an emergency physician providing care to patients within the eastern zone and participating in call.
• The physician will be responsible to the Zone Department Head for Emergency Medicine for their professional responsibilities and quality of practice, and will operate within the Medical Staff Bylaws of the Nova Scotia Health Authority.

• locum shifts available (typically 24-hour shifts; 12-hour shifts optional)

• eligible for licensure with the (CPSNS)
• specialists must be eligible for certification with the (RCPSC)
• family physicians must be eligible for certification with the (CFPC)
• membership with the (CMPA)
• ATLS, ACLS, PALS and advanced Airway training are required