Role and Facility Information

Northern Health is seeking a Family Practitioner to join the primary care team in the beautiful Bulkley Valley, Smithers. The Family Practitioner will be taking on new patients and providing emergency room coverage.

Smithers, situated in the heart of the Bulkley Valley, offers everything needed to balance an exciting, rewarding and innovative career at the forefront of change and renewal with unending leisure, recreation and adventure opportunities. Smithers is a welcoming friendly, artsy, and affordable alpine style community where old and young feel equally at home. Terrific health care colleagues, and affordable housing surrounded by pristine snow-capped mountains and twin waterfalls makes Smithers a perfect place to practice as a Family Physician. It is not only visitors who return to stay and find a job opportunity, but also children who have grown up in Smithers tend to be “homing pigeons”! That in itself vouches for the integrity of Smithers.

Explore the beauty and activities our stunning Valley has to offer:

• Fly directly to Smithers, the airport is 4 km from downtown

• Enjoy a myriad backcountry hiking and mountain biking trails, where you just might stumble upon an open-air piano inviting you to the keyboard…

• Endless swimming, canoeing, white water rafting and fishing opportunities beg a visit on stunning lakes and rivers

• Visit our museum and library, numerous galleries, unique little shops and quaint restaurants, artisan beer breweries, outdoor bakeries too, or meet friends after work at one of our buzzing street cafés

• Drop in at one of the Spa’s, Fitness studios, Yoga, ballet and dancing classes

or do you have a yen for violin, guitar or piano lessons? It’s all here in Smithers!

• Famous 4 day Mid Summer Music Festival, with international, national as well as local artists performing

• Bulkley Valley’s Fall Fair is coming up soon, with all it has to offer

• Participate in a soccer, volleyball, or martial arts team

• Come play our inviting yet challenging 18 hole Golf Course

• Two ice rinks

• An indoor heated swimming pool, climbing wall, squash courts, several gyms add to the variety

• In our winter season, this very same summer paradise changes to a Winter-Wonderland - the powdery ski runs of Hudson Bay Mountain [just 30 minutes from town] have been described by some visiting celebrities as ‘the best kept secret” in Canada

• Try ice fishing the lakes hiking, and x-country skiing or snowmobiling on the never-ending number of trails…

• Shopaholics are well catered for by way of specialty- as well as fashion stores,

• Just join some of the various groups in the activities you are interested in, and instantly become part and parcel of our vibrant, warm and outgoing community,

• Smithers boasts several schools, faith communities as well as Coast Mountain College

• Join our local Pacific Northwest Division of Family Practice for networking opportunities with regional and local health care providers

Bulkley Valley District Hospital is a 24 bed acute care facility providing emergency/outpatient, medical, surgical, maternity and palliative care services, and has one psychiatric observation unit. The facility supports home and community care services, a strong community cancer clinic, and a diverse visiting specialist/surgeon program. It also offers laboratory and radiology (x-ray, mammography, ultrasound), and pediatrics services.

We are just waiting to welcome you to our lovely Valley and offer our assistance as far as possible in helping you to relocate, transition and become a treasured member of our community.

This posting is covered by the Provincial Health Officer’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination orders and selected applicant(s) must comply.

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Terms

Benefits and Incentives

Vacation Leave

6-8 weeks annually, including CME

May be eligible for additional remuneration in accordance with the Rural Subsidiary Agreement (RSA) including:

Retention Premium

20.02%

Retention Flat Fee

$30,382

Relocation Funding Available

$9,000-15,000

Recruitment Incentive

$20,000

Other Benefits/Incentives

Relocation: $15,000 if relocating from outside of Canada: $12,000 if relocating within Canada but outside of BC; $9,000 if relocating within BC.

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