Physician Pediatrician (P/T)

Primary Care Physicians: Health Advocates Delivering Patient-Centered Care

La Clínica de La Raza is a community-based health center dedicated to providing culturally appropriate, high-quality, and accessible health care to the diverse communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. We advocate for and create a health home for those denied access to care, focusing on economic and social factors affecting health.

Major Areas of Responsibility

• Provide all aspects of outpatient pediatric care to children from birth through adolescence.
• Deliver routine, acute, urgent, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative medical care to youth, and determine appropriate regimens as needed, including initiating referrals to medical specialists as required.
• Screen and monitor the management of stabilized chronic conditions in asymptomatic and well patients.
• Attend to and/or admit patients to appropriate hospitals as needed while ensuring 24-hour availability of care to patients by sharing night and weekend call with other physicians.
• Deliver culturally sensitive well and chronic disease care to a diverse patient population of all ages.
• Demonstrate flexibility in meeting patients' needs, and participate in the after-hours call pool and Saturday clinics rotation.
• Develop a positive rapport with patients and families to foster the physician/patient relationship.
• Serve as a member of the cross-functional team of providers, consulting with Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants on the assessment, management, and treatment of complicated cases, chart review, co-signing, and case conferences.
• Suggest improvements for clinic flow, patient scheduling, and service delivery, and collaborate professionally with interdisciplinary team members, including providers, health educators, medical assistants, registered nurses, and case managers.
• Provide direction to medical assistants regarding patient care as needed.

Minimum Job Requirements

• Knowledge and experience with Electronic Health Record programs, such as NextGen or Epic.
• Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities, including symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
• Cultural competence working in diverse/low-income communities.
• Ability to deal courteously and effectively with a diverse patient population, and maintain good working relationships with professional colleagues and other staff.
• Ability to work courteously and effectively as a team member to support the established quality and productivity standards established for the clinic; work independently; exercise good judgment; communicate effectively orally and in writing, make and thorough manner with speed and accuracy with minimal supervision.
• Ability and willingness to work under pressure and as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate flexibility and ability to accept changes gracefully.
• Ability to work across cultures and demonstrate support of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Top-notch time management skills and evidence-based approaches to medical care.
• English/Spanish proficiency preferred but not required.

Experience and Other Certifications

• MD/DO degree from a recognized University.
• One to two years of experience working in primary care clinic setting.
• Board certification in Pediatrics or board eligibility within 2 years of employment.
• Valid California license.
• DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) certification.
• Current BLS (Basic Life Support) Certificate, with a 30-day grace period to obtain it from the date of hire.

Salary

$108.53 - $129.01 DOE