Director of Pediatrics

Our client located near Sacramento, California is seeking an Associate Director of Pediatrics to join their FQHC/Community Health Practice. This is an opportunity to carry out your passion for working with the underserved while maintaining a work-life balance with a 4 day work week. The ideal candidate has completion of a M.D. or D.O. with 3+ years of recent outpatient primary care practice experience and previous management/leadership experience. Current Board Certification of Pediatrics is also required. They are accepting FMG candidates with ECFMG or Fifth pathway certification.


Responsibilities of Pediatrics Associate Medical Director include:

• Schedule: Monday - Thursday
• Be highly knowledgeable in Pediatrics by maintaining high level of clinical expertise, utilizing the most current sources and guidelines, and being familiar with changing standards of practice.
• Regularly monitor and oversee the performance of clinicians practicing Pediatrics with respect to established performance indicators, including peer review. Assist Chief Medical Officer in annual performance appraisals of clinicians within Pediatrics.
• Develop strategies to improve the performance of clinicians or sites lagging in any performance indicators.
• Help in reviewing, modifying, and developing Policies and Procedures and clinic workflows as relevant to Pediatrics.
• Develop optimal templates, accelerators, and other workflows in Pediatrics for the Electronic Health Record.
• Monitor resource and referral utilization within Pediatrics and assist in identifying additional resources to improve provider and patient access to specialty care. Help to create standards and standard procedures for the most common referrals.
• Meet regularly with the Chief Medical Officer to review clinical issues, clinician performance, and strategic initiatives and priorities.
• Attend and participate in meetings as required or requested.
• Provide comprehensive medical services to patients at a high level of care and quality consistent with Pediatric scope of practice in a community clinic environment, including taking appropriate health history, performing physical examination, completing medical work-up, performing or ordering appropriate lab, imaging, and other tests, prescribing, ordering referrals, and implementing appropriate therapy according to standard medical practice. Address urgent, chronic, and preventive medical needs on an ongoing basis.
• Obtain appropriate consults when problems presented are outside the scope of practice or when unfamiliar with a particular aspect of the client's care.
• Facilitate transfer of care to other clinicians when religious or personal beliefs interfere with the clinician's ability to offer full care options.
• Provide health education to Center clients and their families and answer questions, and work closely with other clinic staff to recruit and retain the appropriate care managers that provide these services; expand and grow the overall provision of appropriate education and information, including follow-up, for patients.

• Completion of a M.D. or D.O. degree from an U.S. accredited medical school, school of osteopathy medicine, or FMG with ECFMG or Fifth pathway certification.
• Board Certified in Pediatrics.
• Recent outpatient primary care practice experience
• Previous management/leadership experience.

• Competitive salary for 30+ hours per week
• Retirement 4% employer match with immediate vesting
• Malpractice/Tail Insurance-Provided at no cost to employee
• Annual CME Benefit
• Comprehensive benefits package-$0 in-network out-of-pocket costs
• Tuition Reimbursement