Pediatrician at Nova Scotia Health Authority and IWK Health Centre in Sydney, NS

About the Opportunity

Cape Breton Regional Hospital (CBRH) is seeking a pediatrician to join a team of four pediatricians and one neonatologist. The successful candidate will provide consultations in general pediatrics and sick neonates. CBRH is affiliated with the IWK Children’s Hospital located in Halifax, which provides travelling sub-specialty clinics, telehealth grand rounds, and an air transport program.Physicians may also participate in teaching through the family medicine residency program based in Sydney and/or with medical students through Dalhousie University.Cape Breton Regional Hospital (CBRH) opened its door to patients in 1995. Now, it is the second largest acute care facility in Nova Scotia that serves more than 200,000 patients a year. It is part of a four hospital complex that also includes Glace Bay, New Waterford Consolidated, and Northside General Hospitals.

Located in the historic town of Sydney, CBRH has 162 acute care beds, 36 emergency beds, 23 intermediate and critical care beds, 40 maternal child beds, 52 mental health and addiction beds, and nine palliative care beds. The hospital provides a range of primary and secondary services through in-patient, outpatient, and community-based programs.

Services:

• anesthesiology
• cancer and supportive care
• cardiac respiratory
• diabetes education services
• diagnostic imaging
• dialysis
• emergency medicine
• general surgery
• geriatric assessment and rehabilitation
• intensive care unit
• internal medicine
• laboratory services
• maternal/child support services
• mental health and addiction services
• neonatal care
• nutrition and diabetic counseling
• obstetrics and gynecology
• occupational therapy
• ophthalmology
• otolaryngology
• palliative care
• physiotherapy
• plastic surgery
• social work
• spiritual and religious care
• volunteer services

Responsibilities

• work a full scope of practice as a pediatrician
• consult and refer to other medical practitioners