Types of Employment

Family Practitioner | Physician Specialist | Locum Opportunities

The Government of the Northwest Territories offers full-time physicians and specialists a comprehensive salary and benefits package that includes:

• Competitive recruitment and retention bonuses
• Northern allowance
• Call-back compensation
• Moving assistance
• Special leave
• Self-funded leave plan
• Sick leave
• Maternity leave
• Group health benefits

Family Practitioner

Family Practice Physicians are currently based out of the larger communities of Yellowknife, Inuvik, Hay River, Fort Smith and Fort Simpson. In other small communities, a primary care physician makes regularly scheduled visits.

In Yellowknife, family practice physicians provide more specialized services and are affiliated closely with Stanton Territorial Hospital. At Stanton, physicians may provide services in the operating room as a General Practitioner anaesthetist, provide a full range of obstetrics, or work full time in the emergency department.

Physician Specialist

Physician Specialists practice in Yellowknife based out of the Stanton Territorial Health Authority. The Northwest Territories employs Specialists in the following areas:

• General surgery
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Orthopedic surgery
• ENT
• Ophthalmology
• Pediatrics
• Internal medicine
• Psychiatry
• Anesthesia
• Radiology
  

Locum Opportunities

Locum opportunities exist for General Practitioner’s to experience the life of a physician in a rural northern community. The Government of the Northwest Territories along with its eight Health and Social Service Authorities are pleased to accommodate Canadian Physicians looking to perform locums across the Northwest Territories. Each Health and Social Services Authority finalizes arrangements regarding timeframes, licensing and logistical ma

Contact Us

For more information on locum and permanent placements in Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA),  please contact NWTphysicians@gov.nt.ca

For similar opportunities in Hay River, please contact :

Paul Power
Hay River Health and Social Services Authority 
37911 Mackenzie Highway 
Hay River, NT 
X0E 0R6 

Phone: 867.874.8140 Fax: 867.874.8141 E-mail: HRHSSA_Physician-Recruitment@gov.nt.ca