FT/PT Family Physician
Status: Full-time/Part-Time, permanent
Location: Owen Sound, ON (on-site)
Hours: 28 to 35 hours/week
Salary: Up to $292,365* per PSA ($160.64 per hour)
Paid Time Off: 3 weeks vacation, 12 health & 3 personal days, 5 spiritual/cultural days, professional development, and your birthday off (pro-rated for part-time)
Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, life insurance, and more
Pension: HOOPP (defined benefit pension plan)
Posting Date: August 7, 2025
Deadline: Open Until Filled
Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (SOAHAC) is a diverse, dynamic, multiservice Indigenous health and wellness agency. We strive to provide quality, wholistic health services by sharing and promoting traditional and western health practices to enable people to live in a more balanced state of well-being. SOAHAC provides services to Indigenous people including those who live on and off reserve, status, non-status, Inuit, and Metis within the Southwest, Waterloo Wellington and Erie St Clair regions. SOAHAC has a mandate of ensuring that health services are accessible, of high quality, and are culturally appropriate. It is SOAHAC’s objective to build health care capacity within Indigenous communities.
Flexible Work Arrangements Available: While we are ideally seeking a full-time, permanent Family Physician, we are also open to part-time schedules or contract service agreements. Compensation, paid time off, benefits, and pension eligibility will be adjusted accordingly. Interested candidates are encouraged to indicate their preferred work arrangement in their application.
Are you a knowledgeable, driven practitioner who is passionate about making a tangible difference? We are looking for a Family Physician to join the SOAHAC team at our site located in Owen Sound, Ontario. Reporting to the Integrated Care Manager in Owen Sound, the Family Physician is responsible for providing comprehensive, patient-centered Primary Care which emphasizes accessibility, health promotion, illness prevention and continuity of care for Indigenous people living off-reserve and surrounding First Nations communities. The physician provides care to individuals across the life span, promoting a wholistic approach to assist individuals, families and groups to achieve an optimal state of health and well-being. The Physician works in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team including mental health and traditional healing services and provides consultation to the Nurse Practitioners as needed. This position will require some travel to surrounding First Nations communities.

Why work with us?

• Make an Impact: Your work will amplify SOAHAC’s mission, ensuring that Indigenous communities have access to vital, wholistic health services.
• Innovative and Collaborative Environment: Work in a multidisciplinary setting that values the exchange of ideas, innovation, and collective learning.
• Professional Growth: Benefit from meaningful professional development opportunities in a culturally rich environment that supports your career aspirations.
• Supportive Benefits Package: Enjoy competitive pay, a supportive benefits package, and meaningful time off to ensure your personal well-being.

• Primary Care: Provide comprehensive primary care services to clients of all ages, including primary prevention, health education, comprehensive physical exams, chronic disease management, antenatal care, palliative care and acute/episodic visits. Provide primary care indirectly by working interactively with nurse practitioners, providing consultation to nurses or other staff. Conduct on-site assessments, as well as telephone, virtual and home visits.
• Social Determinants of Health: Work within a social determinants of health framework which emphasizes health promotion and education, disease prevention and recognizes the special risk factors (social, physical, psychological etc.) which may affect the health of clients
• Advocacy Community Outreach: Advocate on behalf of clients with regards to equitable access to traditional healing and western health services. Participate in community outreach, patient education and prevention programs.
• Clinic Functions: Must maintain patient files, encounter information, correspondence, clinical protocols and other data to meet the requirements of the Ministry of Health and regulatory bodies. Provide leadership and guidance in the general organization and operation of the clinic’s medical activities. Maintain close collaborative working relationships with other allied health professionals and work in collaboration with other health professionals to ensure a broad range of traditional and western services are available to clients. Act as a supervisor and consultant to health care students and participates in the learning of students from other disciplines.