GP - Salaried | Ontario, Canada

A well-established and publicly funded not-for-profit Community Health Centre in Ontario is looking to welcome up to four UK-trained GPs to its interdisciplinary primary care team across two new satellite sites just 1hr from Toronto. This is a fully salaried, publicly-funded role — no billing, no overhead, no staff management — within a model genuinely designed around comprehensive, unrushed primary care. For UK GPs frustrated with the NHS but wary of swapping it for the volume pressures of private practice, Canadian community health offers a different proposition worth considering carefully.

Location

• State: Ontario
• Setting: A lakeside city, approximately 1 hour north of Toronto

The city sits on the shoreline of Kempenfelt Bay at the southern end of Lake Simcoe, around 90km north of central Toronto — comfortably commutable to the Greater Toronto Area but with a distinct lakeside character of its own. The city is the gateway to Ontario's "cottage country" and ski region, with year-round outdoor recreation: sailing and watersports in summer, skiing and snowshoeing in winter, hiking and cycling in the shoulder seasons. Schools are strong, the community is family-friendly, and the cost of living is meaningfully lower than central Toronto while still being well-connected to it.

Ontario itself offers UK GPs four genuine seasons (warm summers, snowy winters), a publicly-funded healthcare system that will feel familiar in structure to the NHS, and a clear long-term pathway to permanent residency through federal or provincial immigration streams.

About the practice

This Community Health Centre (BCHC) is a publicly-funded, not-for-profit Community Health Centre serving the surrounding area. The Centre is opening two new satellite sites —  (approximately within 20 minutes travel) — and is recruiting a full team of physicians to staff them.

The clinical model is interdisciplinary by design. Physicians work alongside nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, dietitians, diabetic educators, physiotherapists, and community health workers — meaning your patients have wraparound support and you have genuine multidisciplinary colleagues, not just a referral pad. The satellite site teams will access the CHC's on-site physiotherapists, diabetes educators and group programs. There is an identified community need within diabetes and endocrinology (so GPs with chronic disease interest are particularly well-placed).

Crucially, this is not a fee-for-service or capitation model — physicians are salaried, with dedicated administration and care coordination time built into the working day. Standard appointments are 20–30 minutes, with 45 minutes for complex care visits. Clinic hours are 8:30am to 4:30pm with some on-call commitments. The Centre is genuine about "comprehensive care without the rush" — the operational model supports it rather than just claiming it.

Package & earnings

• Salaried role — CAD $263,707 – $331,975 per year 
• On-call stipend: CAD $5,350
• 6% of gross annual earnings contributed toward RRSP (Canadian pension equivalent)
• Comprehensive benefit plan: Extended Health & Dental, Life/AD&D Insurance, Employee Assistance Programme
• 4 weeks vacation (20 days) to start
• 12 statutory holidays (2 float)
• 10 days CME (Continuing Medical Education)
• 12 sick days
• Bi-weekly pay with deductions at source — no billing, no overhead, no staff management
• Predictable hours and genuine work-life balance

Registration & immigration support

For UK-trained GPs, the Ontario pathway involves:

• CPSO registration (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario) — recently streamlined for UK MRCGP holders via the Recognised Training and Practice-Ready Assessment routes
• MCCQE Part 1 waiver available for UK CCT holders through CPSO's updated framework
• CCFP (College of Family Physicians of Canada) fellowship recognition via the recently expanded CFPC Recognised Training route for UK GPs
• LMIA (Labour Market Impact Assessment) sponsored by the employer — funding for all five positions is already confirmed
• Work permit and clear pathway to permanent residency via federal or provincial immigration streams

BDI's recruitment team has built specific expertise in the UK-to-Ontario GP pathway. We'll handle the heavy lifting on registration, LMIA, work permit, and PR strategy while you focus on the clinical and personal preparation.

Who we're looking for

• UK-trained GP with MRCGP and full GMC registration
• Genuine interest in community health and interdisciplinary primary care — this is not a high-volume, transactional model
• Three to five years of primary care experience (community health setting preferred but not essential)
• Comfortable working as part of a wraparound team with shared accountability for patient outcomes
• Open to relocating to Ontario and embracing four-season Canadian living
• Long-term mindset — this is a salaried, settled role designed for physicians who want to put down roots

Next steps

Send your CV to canada@bdiresourcing.com or get in touch to schedule a call with our team — we'll talk through the role, the CPSO/CFPC registration pathway, the LMIA and work permit process, and what life genuinely looks like as a UK GP working in Ontario community health.

Even if you're still a year or two away from relocating, it's worth an early conversation — the CPSO registration and LMIA process takes time to do properly, and Canada's pathway is currently more open to UK GPs than it has been in many years. Early engagement protects your options.

Hunter | BDI Resourcing