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.

Hants Community Hospital (HCH) in Windsor, Nova Scotia is seeking hospitalists to join their team. The majority of patients within this hospital are rostered to our team of Hospitalists. Hants Hospital is an acute care hospital with a 24-hour 10 bed Emergency Department.

HCH has 26 inpatient beds and 14 transitional-care beds with plans for further acute care expansion. The facility offers many outpatient services, outreach programs, and medical diagnostics and also has an extensive same-day surgical program, including: General surgery, Urology, Otolaryngology and Orthopedics. Outpatient clinics include, Pain clinic, Palliative Care, Internal Medicine, General Pediatrics, Mental Health, Hematology, Gynecology and General Surgery. Cardiac testing with EKG, Stress testing and Holter Monitoring as well Respirology testing with spirometry are available.

General Internal Medicine may in certain cases be available for inpatient consults, along with Respiratory therapy, Social Work, SLP/Dietician (swallowing assessments), Pharmacy, Palliative Care, Continuing Care, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Provide direct inpatient care for patients admitted to the Hants Hospitalist Service 
• Provide a full range of clinical inpatient care, in keeping with the Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine’s Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine
• Most responsible physician (MRP) coverage for admitted patients, ensuring all laboratory, imaging consultation and other reports are received and reviewed daily
• Equitable participation in weekend and after-hours call coverage (with significant support/coverage from in-house Emergency Physician colleagues) 
• Participation in daily flow discussions 
• Embrace the Home First Philosophy of NS Health in efficient discharge planning with focus on expected length of stay with patient/caregivers at time of admission
• Participate in Quality improvement, operational and research initiatives
• Demonstrate commitment to delivering the highest quality care and maintenance of competence 
• Coordinate care with members of the inter-professional team for the provision of quality care, including regular interdisciplinary team rounds
• Attend site-based physician meetings as outlined by the Central Zone Department Head of Hospital Medicine, and Site Hospitalist Lead(s)

Expected Hours

• Locum, full-time, or part-time
• Schedule is flexible (typical full-time schedule is one week on/one week off)
• Participate in weekend day shifts proportional to weekday coverage
• Participate in after-hours work per site plan

Qualifications

Qualifications

• All applicants must be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia(CPSNS)
• All specialists must be eligible for certification with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada(RCPSC)
• Membership with the Canadian Medical Protective Association(CMPA)
• Active with admitting privileges at Central Zone- Hants site via NSH Credentialing Committee
• All applicants must have up to date ACLS certification
• Membership in the Society of Hospital Medicine, Canadian Chapter is encouraged
• Academic teaching appointment with Dalhousie University is an asset

Additional Information

Community Details

A proud history, vibrant lifestyle and a bright future all combine to make picturesque Windsor a magnetic visitor destination and a delightful community in which to live and work.

Located in the heart of Nova Scotia at the eastern gate to the famed Annapolis Valley, Windsor features the benefits of rural living as well as convenient proximity (45 minutes) to Metropolitan Halifax.

While quickly gaining renown as "The Birthplace of Hockey", Windsor is also home to historic Fort Edward, the original Sam Slick Days festival, now known as the annual Windsor-West Hants Summer Fest, Howard Dill's Giant Pumpkins, and the internationally-recognized Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia. 

Skiing at Martock, golf at the Avon Valley Golf & Country Club, and a host of community events throughout the year add to Windsor's claim that it is perhaps the best place in Nova Scotia in which to live and play!

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.