Location: Lifemark Bayers Road
Employment Status: Casual Part Time or Contract based on operational need
Schedule: To be determined
About the Role
Lifemark Health Group is seeking Occupational Health Physicians to provide high-quality occupational medicine services for employer clients, workers, and safety-sensitive populations. This role is typically structured as an independent contractor or fee-for-service engagement rather than a full-time employee role. The physician provides independent clinical judgment in occupational assessment, fitness-for-work decision-making, medical surveillance, injury and illness management, and employer-facing consultation while working within applicable legislation, privacy obligations, professional standards, and client program requirements.
Why Join Lifemark
- Join one of Canada’s leading healthcare organizations with a growing national occupational health platform.
- Provide high-value physician services that influence workforce health, safety-sensitive medical qualification, and safe return to work.
- Work alongside occupational health nurses, nurse practitioners, technicians, coordinators, kinesiologists, and national operations teams in a collaborative service model.
- Contribute to program development, medical governance, quality improvement, and standardized occupational health service delivery across diverse industries and jurisdictions.
- Access flexible engagement models that may include clinic, onsite, virtual, mobile, or regional coverage depending on operational needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive occupational medical assessments, including pre-placement, post-offer, periodic, surveillance, return-to-work, fit-for-work, disability, and other employer-directed assessments within scope and applicable standards.
- Evaluate work-related and non-work-related medical conditions where occupational implications must be considered, and determine medical restrictions, limitations, accommodations, or follow-up requirements when appropriate to the worker’s role, exposure profile, and clinical concern.
- Review job demands, safety-sensitive requirements, exposure risks, and essential duties when forming occupational medical opinions.
- Order, review, and interpret relevant investigations, screening results, functional information, and specialist reports required to support occupational decision-making (e.g., bloodwork, urinalysis, ECG, audiometry, spirometry, vision screening, TB screening, and other client-specific testing).
- Respond to abnormal results, adverse events, urgent clinical presentations, and communicable disease concerns with timely assessment, escalation, referral, and documentation.
- Provide medical oversight and direction for surveillance, testing programs, and vaccines tied to exposure risks, legislation, standards or client requirements, including abnormal result review, escalation, referral, and clearance processes.
- Assess workers following illness, injury, surgery, hospitalization, or prolonged absence and provide return-to-work and fitness recommendations based on functional capability and occupational risk.
- Collaborate with employers, HR, disability partners, and internal clinicians on accommodation, stay-at-work, and return-to-work planning while maintaining privacy, consent, and role clarity.
- Document assessments, rationale, restrictions, and recommendations clearly, objectively, and within required turnaround times using Lifemark systems and approved forms/templates.
- Maintain timely, defensible, and confidential documentation in the EMR and applicable client systems.
- Provide worker counselling and education regarding results, risk factors, preventive care, exposure controls, immunizations, and recommended next steps.
- Collaborate with other occupational health nurses, nurse practitioners, technicians, clinic teams, and referral providers while maintaining worker confidentiality and appropriate disclosure boundaries.
- Support medical quality, peer consultation, case review, policy development, and continuous improvement activities related to occupational health services.
- Participate in onsite or mobile service delivery, client meetings, case conferences, or travel as required.
- Contribute to infection prevention and control, controlled supply management, equipment quality checks, and service line implementation activities.
Qualifications and Experience
- Medical degree (MD) with current independent licensure, or eligibility for licensure, with the applicable provincial/territorial medical regulatory authority.
- Certification in Family Medicine or other relevant specialist training; additional education, diploma, fellowship, or significant practice experience in occupational medicine is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience conducting fitness-for-work, medical surveillance, disability/return-to-work, or safety-sensitive occupational assessments.
- Strong understanding of occupational risk assessment, fitness-to-work, functional capability, job demands analysis, restrictions/limitations, accommodations, privacy/confidentiality, and documentation standards in employer-funded services.
- Ability to order and interpret diagnostic testing and specialist information relevant to occupational health decision-making.
- Medical Review Officer training/certification, audiometric oversight experience, or experience with federally regulated sectors, designated substances, or remote/industrial settings are considered strong assets.
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams and communicating clearly with workers, employers, case managers, and clinical colleagues.
- Current BLS/CPR certification and proficiency with EMRs and occupational health documentation systems are assets.
- Valid driver’s license and access to reliable transportation where travel to worksites is required.
- Proficiency with EMRs and digital clinical documentation systems.
Our Physicians are
• Clinically strong, organized, and comfortable making sound decisions in fast-paced or variable settings.
• Professional and credible with workers, employers, and multidisciplinary clinical teams.
• Skilled at balancing worker-centered care, privacy, clinical ethics, and employer program requirements.
• Adaptable, solutions-oriented, and committed to high-quality documentation and defensible recommendations.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Lifemark is committed to creating an inclusive, accessible, and respectful workplace. Accommodation is available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process.
Additional Role Information
- The role is generally engaged through an independent contractor agreement and may be structured as sessional, part-time, casual, regional, or ad hoc physician coverage.
- Final scope of services, availability expectations, compensation model, documentation turnaround requirements, and liability/insurance provisions will be defined in the physician agreement.
- All services must be delivered in accordance with applicable professional standards, Lifemark policies, client requirements, and provincial/territorial legal and privacy obligations.
How This Role Differs from a Traditional Employee Posting
Because most Lifemark occupational health physicians are engaged through contractor agreements, this posting is intended to attract qualified physicians while also making the nature of the engagement transparent. The formal physician agreement should mirror the role expectations described above, including scope of services, documentation standards, availability, and privacy/confidentiality obligations.
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