Location: Squamish Nature of position: Multiple Part-Time
Hours of Work: 8-20 hrs/wk. Mon-Fri, typically positions available

9-5 with some flexibility. Position posted on: June 5, 2025

Start date: ASAP

Compensation: The Foundry contract is paid at 100% of APSA range for the GP Full Scope

(Rural) – Area C Practice Category in Sea to Sky – Squamish. The 2024/25 rate is $354,545 per

1.0 FTE (or equivalent for part time FTE) and the physician is eligible for an additional RRP

premium of 3.22%. Foundry Central will also contribute $45,000 per 1.0 FTE for overhead directly

to the clinic. Physicians will not pay clinic overhead.

ABOUT SSCS and Foundry:

Foundry is removing barriers and increasing access to health and wellness services for

young people ages 12–24 and their caregivers through a network of innovative youth-

friendly centres across British Columbia and online. By offering integrated mental health

care, substance use services, primary and sexual health care, youth and family peer

support and social services, Foundry makes it easier for young people to find support in their

communities. Online resources and first-of-its-kind virtual care further broaden Foundry's

reach.

Sea to Sky Community Services (SSCS) is the lead agency for Foundry Sea to Sky (FSTS),

integrating health care into a community-based social service setting. This approach allows

us to be flexible and creative in our ability to meet multiple needs of youth in one location.

Vancouver Coastal Health’s Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Team is fully

integrated into the FSTS model and includes Concurrent Disorder Clinicians, Hospital Liaison

Workers, and a Case Coordinator Nurse. FSTS’s wrap-around service model also includes

Youth Outreach Workers and Peer Support Workers employed by SSCS, as well as an

integrated youth drop-in providing social and recreational programming.

Contribution:





Under the oversight of the FSTS Medical Director, the family physician provides episodic,

enhanced/specialized, and longitudinal care (up until age 25) within the interdisciplinary

team, through a combination of walk-in and scheduled appointments. Physicians are

actively involved in case consultation with the FSTS team and have the support of Medical

Office Assistants in the Centre.

We are currently recruiting multiple family physicians with 0.2FTE and up to 0.5FTE positions

available.

Remuneration will be in accordance with the Doctors of BC Physician Master Agreement

and the negotiated clinical service contract.

The estimated clinic opening timeline is fall 2024.

Qualifications:

1. Registered (Full) in valuable standing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of

B.C.

2. Certification with the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

3. Medical indemnity coverage with Canadian Medical Protective Association

(CMPA).

4. Eligibility for a faculty appointment with the University of British Columbia Faculty of

Medicine is an asset.

Job skills and abilities:

1. Enthusiasm for and experience working with adolescents and young adults.

2. Demonstrates a high level of clinical skill and competence with knowledge in the

following areas:

a. Adolescent and young adult (AYA) physical, psychological, and social

development.

b. Mental health and substance use in the AYA population, including comfort

with collaborative treatment planning and prescription of common

medications.

c.



Opioid Agonist therapy (OAT) and/or willingness to learn to prescribe OAT.

d. Harm reduction strategies.

e. Reproductive health, including sexual health and STI prevention and

treatment.

f. Gender-affirming care, including the ability to provide and/or willingness to

learn how to provide hormone and surgical care planning.

g. Health promotion and prevention strategies.

h. A commitment to cultural safety and humility.

i. Awareness of Indigenous health practices and Indigenous health supports.

j. The unique ethical, legal, and confidentiality issues in caring for young

people.

k. Effectively engaging family, caregivers, and other supports in the care of

AYA.

l. Trauma-informed and strengths-based care.

3. Excellent interpersonal communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively in

an interdisciplinary team.

4. Ability to learn and utilize the multiple records management platforms required for

wrap around care.

5. Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to help others to use the same

analytical thought processes.

6. Ability to deal with a host of interdisciplinary issues involving professional and

resource allocation challenges.

7. Ability to maximize use and scope of interdisciplinary team members.

8. Willingness and ability to contribute to educational activities in the clinic for the

benefit of their colleagues and health professionals in training.

9. Willingness to take part in educational opportunities to advance practice and client

outcomes.

Requirements:

1. Criminal Record Review.

2. Signed confidentiality form.

3. Approved reference check.

Apply today:

Please direct your expression of interest in this position to Krista Germyn, Director of Clinical

Service Delivery, at [email protected] and include a cover letter and CV.

📌 Physician (Canada)
🏢 Sea to Sky Community Services Society
📍 Canada