Company Description

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centers, and community-based programs we operate across the province.

Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

Job Description

The Ravines Medical Group has been providing comprehensive primary care services across the Halifax region for over 10 years. With four medical centres and eight pharmacies, the organization supports a collaborative, team‑based approach to family medicine in modern, well‑equipped facilities. Ravines emphasizes high‑quality care, strong community partnerships, and a commitment to accessible healthcare.

The Group handles the administrative and business operations so clinicians can focus on patient care while maintaining autonomy over schedules, clinical interests, and appointment structure. Ravines supports ongoing professional development, CME involvement, and the flexibility for physicians to pursue additional assignments such as hospitalist or long‑term care work.

The Spryfield Ravines Clinic, located at 205 Herring Cove Road, is seeking a family physician to join its collaborative team of eight physicians, one nurse practitioner, and two family practice nurses. The incoming provider will assume the panel of a recently retired physician and deliver comprehensive primary care to a diverse patient population, including individuals with chronic disease, mental health concerns, and addiction co‑morbidities.

This position offers independence, strong clinical support, and opportunities for teaching, collaboration, and procedural medicine within a highly supported practice environment.
 

Highlights

• Collaborative Team Model: Weekly physician meetings, shared clinical discussions, and supportive interdisciplinary environment.
• Duty Clinic Rotation Only: No call schedule; physicians participate in a weekday duty clinic for one hour on a rotational basis.
• Strong Operational Support:
  • Director of Clinical Operations available weekly or as needed
  • Longstanding administrative staff
  • Dedicated billing coordinator with weekly submission and bi‑weekly physician pay
• Clinical Infrastructure:
  • Fully equipped procedure room
  • Autoclave and sterilization systems
  • Ability to order additional equipment as required
  • Access to dermatologist and community specialists
• EMR: TELUS Med Access across all Ravines Medical Group clinics.
• Teaching Opportunities: Family medicine residents and medical students regularly placed at the clinic.
• Independent Contractor Model: Full autonomy over schedule and clinical scope.

Responsibilities

• ensure the delivery of comprehensive primary health care services to patients of all ages and stages of health or illness
• be accountable for appropriate workload and practice
• continuum of patient care with health care providers within your practice and/or community
• provide care and coordination of community-based care, secondary and tertiary level heath care
• build to capacity within the first two years
• operate within the Bylaws and Rules and Regulations of Nova Scotia Health Authority
• work toward same day or next day access for the practice population
• work in collaboration with other team members in the practice to best suit the community’s health needs
• work with other providers to provide after-hours access and emergency coverage when required
• participate in quality improvement and evaluation activities
• utilize an electronic medical record (EMR) and record all relevant patient details in a provincially approved EMR which is accessible to all collaborating team members
• Provide comprehensive family medicine services to an existing panel, including assuming patients from a recently retired provider.
• Deliver care across a broad range of primary care needs
• Participate in the clinic’s weekday duty clinic rotation (one hour per day), serving patients attached to the practice.
• Participate in weekly physician meetings to discuss patient care and complex cases.
• Option to contribute to the clinic’s teaching environment by supervising family medicine residents and medical students (if interested).
• Option to participate in CME and professional development opportunities with the physician team. 

Expected Hours

• permanent, full time 

Remuneration

• Remuneration type is either Longitudinal Family Medicine payment model or a Fee for Service payment model.

Incentives 

Nova Scotia Health offers a variety of incentives designed to relieve some of the pressure, cost, and difficulty that comes with relocation. 

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Benefits 

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package including health and dental, EMR grants, funded locum coverage, CME funding, parental leave, physician advisors and more!

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Qualifications

• All applicants must be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia (CPSNS)
• All applicants must be eligible for certification with the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC)
• Membership with the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA)

Additional Information

Halifax, the largest urban area in Atlantic Canada and Nova Scotia's capital city, sits in the center of Nova Scotia's east coast and is an important seaport that looks out over one of the world's largest natural harbors.

Halifax is a perfect paradox. We are where land meets sea, old meets new, urban meets rural, and traditional meets trendy. We balance a relaxing pace with modern urban amenities and affordability with world class-experiences. We value our strong historical ties but drive to shake up the norm. This perfect balance makes Halifax one of the best places in the world to visit, no matter what a visitor is looking for: see for yourself in this video!

Nature lovers will find sandy beaches, beautiful gardens, and hiking, birding, and beachcombing. Urbanites can enjoy the symphony, live theater, art galleries, and museums, along with a lively nightlife that includes brewpubs and a great culinary scene.

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Home to three Dalhousie campuses, Halifax is a vibrant, coastal urban centre of 425,000 people that has everything you d expect from a big city within a close-knit community. One of Canada s fastest-growing cities, Halifax is home to innovative tech and entrepreneurial communities, as well as thriving financial and ocean technology sectors. Halifax plays an essential role in the economic development of the North Atlantic seaboard and fosters a flourishing offshore industry, ground-breaking life sciences research and development, and a wealth of business opportunities. Ranked as first among mid-sized cities in North America in overall cost competitiveness, Halifax is the economic leader in the region with the resource, labour force, and cost advantages to attract high-profile businesses. The spectacular location and creative sides of Halifax are what make the city truly one-of-a-kind. The city boasts a vibrant atmosphere including live Theatre, world-class Symphonic performances, and many museums and art galleries. Halifax is also home to sports franchises, rowing clubs, as well as an active inter-university sports scene, a thriving amateur sports culture, and many opportunities for personal fitness. There are also endless outdoor adventures to be had while kayaking, sailing, surfing, hiking, rock-climbing, skiing, whale watching, and more.
Dalhousie is the leading graduate and research university of Atlantic Canada, with more than 18,500 students, including 3,500 in graduate programs, from 115 countries. Its medical school (www.medicine.dal.ca), founded in 1868, teaches scientific excellence and humanity in medicine, facilitates leading health research, influences social and health policy, and helps drive the regional economy. Through Dalhousie, the Department of Surgery is affiliated with New Brunswick s Horizon Health Network and has additional affiliated staff throughout the Maritime provinces.
Nova Scotia Health (http://www.nshealth.ca) is the largest employer in the province. More than 23,000 employees, 2,500 physicians and 7,000 volunteers combine to provide care at more than 45 facilities throughout the province. The Central Zone provides core health services to 400,000 Halifax region residents (40% of the population of Nova Scotia) and tertiary and quaternary acute care services to residents of Atlantic Canada. The QEII Health Sciences Centre is the principal teaching hospital affiliated with Dalhousie University, and a centre for health care research.
IWK Health Centre (https://www.iwk.nshealth.ca) provides quality care to women, children, youth, and families in the Maritimes and beyond. It is engaged in leading-edge research, works to promote healthy lifestyles for families, and supports education opportunities for health professionals and other learners. Services provided by the Health Centre are delivered through three programs: Children s Health, Mental Health and Addictions, and Womens and Newborn Health.

Practicing in Nova Scotia

Physicians in Nova Scotia provide fulfilling patient care which embraces family life, professional development and community involvement. That's what makes practicing medicine in Nova Scotia unique. Physicians are increasingly attracted to practices that offer team-based care to their patients and allow them to consult with their peers. The size and scale of Nova Scotia allows for better connections across the health care system. Your practice of medicine and your life is richer here. Nova Scotia is more than medicine. 

Building a Diverse Workforce

The Physician Recruitment Team at Nova Scotia Health lives and works in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. We are dedicated to equity, diversity, inclusion, and truth and reconciliation, and we are working to support medical communities that are reflective of and responsive to the diverse populations they serve in Nova Scotia. We welcome physicians from diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us in building healthier, more equitable communities across the province.