Lead addiction medicine and withdrawal management at RSG, primarily supporting New Beginnings with regular travel across Alberta sites. Provide virtual and on-call guidance.
As Regional Medical Director, you will combine advanced practice, people leadership, education, governance, and program development. You will support the 12-bed New Beginnings program, 100-bed Lakeview Recovery Community, future sites, Nurse Practitioners, and nursing teams. The work centers on consistent, recovery-oriented standards across Indigenous-focused services.
Key Responsibilities:

Assess complex withdrawal, concurrent disorders, and medical comorbidities
Manage medications and standardized withdrawal-care practices
Mentor NPs, nurses, and interdisciplinary teams
Develop education, competency pathways, and student placements
Establish scalable governance, coverage, and quality systems
Requirements:

Alberta Nurse Practitioner registration in good standing
Significant NP experience in addiction or related practice
Knowledge of substance use disorders and withdrawal management
Experience leading, mentoring, and developing healthcare professionals
Commitment to cultural humility and culturally safe care
Shape RSG’s medical model through withdrawal expertise, NP development, governance, and culturally safe recovery-oriented leadership.

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Regional Medical Director Addiction Medicine