Physician - Internal Medicine

Palo Alto, CA

Specialty Internal Medicine
Profession Physician

Join our Team at the Department of Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic, Livermore, CA as a Physician – Medical Director, Community Based Outpatient Clinic Supervisor!

This is your opportunity for career growth and leadership development! The opportunity to serve as a Medical Director for a Community Based Outpatient Clinic VA Primary Care Clinic and work with a dynamic, collaborative, and engaged local leadership team to manage high quality & efficient health care on site.

At VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Livermore VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic, we stress the principles of servant leadership; the Medical Director will benefit from training and gain experience in effective communication, data management, and process improvement for success on the front line. Managerial duties will include staff deployment & leave administration, human resources management & labor relations, professional practice review & evaluation, and planning & implementation around existing system imperatives. The Medical Director will also have freedom and support to explore and develop or tailor new initiatives and projects to meet service performance metrics and/or health system strategic goals at their sites. The role will afford regular mentorship and interaction with Service level & Executive Leadership, including daily huddling, recurring site and system wide meetings, and championship of one or more broad performance metrics. The Medical Director will have a reduced clinical load commensurate with the size/complexity of the site and the number of staff reports. Additional reductions may be considered for additional skills and work in various areas of key interest such as whole-health deployment.

Benefits and Features

  • Expected Salary range from $303,077 to $325,000 (negotiable based on candidate's qualifications, credentials and experience).
  1. Work Schedule: Full-time. Schedule will be determined by supervisor.
  2. Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases.
  3. Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time-off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME).
  4. Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
  5. Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement).
  6. Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory.
  7. CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification).
  8. Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided.
  9. Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting.

We encourage you to consider VA employment in Livermore, CA. We offer both a mission you can put your heart into and a home for fun, new experiences. Join a team that values a healthy home/work life balance and be rewarded by your role in keeping the promise to those who served.

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