Physician Pediatrician ( Part-Time)

Primary Care Physicians: Health Advocates Delivering Patient-Centered Care

La Clínica de La Raza is a community-based health center dedicated to providing high-quality, accessible, and culturally appropriate health care to diverse communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1971, we advocate for equitable health care and have expanded to serve over 90,000 individuals across 35 sites in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties.

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.
• 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 Administration) certification.
• Current BLS (Basic Life Support) Certificate, with a 30-day grace period to obtain the certificate from the date of hire.

Pay

Salary range: $108.53 - $129.01 per hour, DOE (Salary determined by experience and qualifications).