Staff Physician with Obstetrics

POSITION TITLE: Staff Physician with Obstetrics

REPORTS TO (TITLE): Medical Director and OB Team Director

SALARY RANGE: $211,660 - $255,709 DOE

                               Additional Compensation for OB Call

Job Summary: This unique and challenging position is ideal for the Family Physician who is ready to provide full-spectrum, primary care to all age ranges of patients seen at a busy FQHC located in the heart of Sonoma County.

You will be predominantly stationed at one of two of our largest clinics – Vista or Lombardi.

Either position includes your own prenatal panel of singleton pregnancies, as well as options for comprehensive reproductive health and gynecologic care.

Lombardi campus is in southeast Santa Rosa, a predominantly Latino neighborhood where Spanish is a preferred first or second language for most.

Vista campus, the home clinic of our Sutter Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency, sees the most broad spectrum of patients representing a wide variety of cultures and languages.  

Because of the co-location of the residency, there are possible options for teaching and precepting that must be pre-approved by site operations and medical directors in collaboration with the CMO.

Additionally, the position includes membership on the SRCH Obstetric Call team, where you will serve as Attending and delivering physician for patients admitted to our affiliated hospital. 

The primary call manages all patients and attends vaginal deliveries. 

Family Physicians who have completed an Obstetric fellowship and are privileged to perform cesarean sections serve as the immediate backup to Primary. 

The hospital hosts the Family Medicine Residency [the same one that has its home clinic at Vista], so inherent in Team membership is a teaching role of residents on Labor & Delivery.

Specific Tasks/Duties in Clinic:

• Create an ongoing, continuity primary care relationship with patients on your panel; diagnose and treat SRCH patients within the scope of your CA license and FM Board Certification; using evidence-based medicine and working with the support of a clinic team, including Medical Assistants; Nursing, among others.
  • Proficiently use clinic EMR [OCHIN Epic], including signing encounters within agency timeline standards, and active and appropriate Inbox management. 
  • Facilitate referral for and coordination with other specialists or care centers
  • Promote and support quality initiatives by the agency; including input on improving workflows, treatment guidelines and protocols.
• Actively support organizational priorities of patient care, quality, education, and sustainability, with an agency goal of a positive work environment.
• Participate in regular clinic, agency and clinician meetings, and other professional activities, as designated by the Site or Medical Director; or OB Team Leader.
• Meet regularly with Clinician Lead and/or Medical Director to review patient care issues and treatment guidelines and protocols.
• Provide as needed clinical supervision and consult to Family Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants who are members of your Team or part of the clinic.
  • Collateral duty assignment as the signing supervisor for up to 4 APCs
• Participate in ongoing training; maintain HIPAA compliance; and support variance reporting system.

Specific Tasks/Duties for OB Call Team:

• Take OB call [primary or primary and backup], pending your role.
  • Call schedule is selected and decided upon by OB Team members.
• Provide clinical supervision of Family Medicine Residents on labor and delivery
• Participate in OB Team weekly meetings, both full team and site-based.
• Attend monthly OB CME; attend regular hospital OB/Peds M&M.
• Maintain all necessary licenses and privileges as required by hospital and SRCH malpractice and insurance.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

Minimum Qualifications:  

Education and Experience

• Active California License; in good standing with the Medical Board of California.
• Board Eligible or Board Certified in Family Medicine.
• If surgical privileges sought, completion of Obstetric Fellowship; including minimum 100 primary cesarean sections.
• ALSO certification current (Instructor status preferred)
• 50 deliveries in the last 36 months
• Current CPR (BLS adequate) certifications

Experience, knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrated proficiency with procedures and tasks enumerated on Staff Physician competency list.
• Proficiency working with electronic medical records (EMR); specifically, Epic [both OCHIN in clinic, and Sutter Epic in hospital]. Experience with Outlook email function and related software products to enhance clinic and agency communication.
• Proficiency in Spanish and English (speak, read, and write), especially in medical setting, especially language and topic around obstetric care, preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to be sensitive with persons of various social, cultural, economic and educational backgrounds.
  • Good judgment, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team, both in clinic and hospital.

SRCH is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation. 

Physical Requirements:  

While performing the duties of this job, this position is frequently required to do the following: 

• Use standard office equipment to access, input, and retrieve information from a computer.  
  • Use computer keyboard with manual and finger dexterity and wrist-finger speed sufficient to perform repetitive actions efficiently for extended periods of time. 
  • Reach forward, up, down, and to the side. 
  • Sit or stand for minimum periods of one hour at a time and come and go from the work area repeatedly throughout the day.
  • Lift up to twenty (20) pounds.
• Give and follow verbal and written instructions with attention to detail and accuracy. 
• Perform complex mental functions; collect, interpret, and analyze complex data and information, including developing differential diagnosis for patients’ medical conditions.
  • Coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously. 
• Perform basic arithmetic functions, including for prescribing medications
• Understand complex laws, regulations, and policies, at an agency and community level
• Vision: see details of objects at close range.
• Travel to other office and community locations in timely manner, including to hospital when on OB call.

SRCH provides reasonable accommodation for individuals with a physical or mental disability to apply for jobs and to perform the essential functions of their jobs unless it would cause an undue hardship.