Job Description

Do you have a passion for geriatric patients and enjoy solving complex medical problems within an interdisciplinary medical team? Do you enjoy working autonomously and thrive in a leadership role? TeamHealth has the perfect opportunity for you. This full-time medical director role will include patient care rounding and medical director duties in a post-acute care setting in skilled nursing facilities located in Gig Harbor, Port Orchard, and Centralia, Washington. You will round approximately five days a week with the flexibility to choose your rounding schedule, allowing you to develop a good work/life balance.       Job Duties:  

• Primary care rounding in SNF
• Manage chronic disease, diagnosis illness and medical conditions, and implement plan of care
• Collaborate with clinicians, facility leaders and others regarding care and services
• Build relationships with your patients, patients' family members, and facility staff to facilitate effective treatment delivery
• Medical director duties for assigned facilities
• Provide oversight, guidance, and mentorship to our clinicians
• Conduct clinical case reviews, as needed and share tools, information, and guidelines as they relate to quality of care
• Represent TeamHealth on appropriate external levels engaging and establishing/maintaining relationships within the post-acute care community
• Collaborate with leadership to review care coordination initiatives, develop collaborative intervention plans, and share ideas about network management issues

Skills:

• Excellent clinical skills
• Critical thinking

• Position Highlights

• Flexible rounding schedule 
  
• Uncapped earning potential
  
• Paid professional liability insurance with tail coverage
  
• Leadership and growth opportunities to further your career
  
• Access to professional development tools, educational resources and CME through TeamHealth Institute
  
• Stability of a respected industry leader
  
• Access to TeamHealth�s clinician wellness and referral program

  Why TeamHealth Post-Acute Care?

  TeamHealth has been in operation for over 40 years and as the leading provider of facilities-based medicine, TeamHealth�s Post-acute Care program is the largest network of post-acute care clinicians. Our team is comprised of more than 1,500 primary care and behavioral health clinicians in more than 31 states. Our post-acute program is built around a team that coordinates care across skilled nursing, long-term care, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and rehabilitation facilities. We deliver care to post-acute patients at over 2000 post-acute facilities. Our post-acute clinicians help us prevent avoidable readmissions, improve alignment between post-acute and acute facilities, and promote successful care transitions to deliver a higher standard of patient care. Our post-acute care clinicians receive best-in class orientation and training, a dedicated EHR system and access to ongoing clinical education. TeamHealth has the resources to support you growing a strong practice and provide you with an excellent work/life balance. We are offering an exciting opportunity to be a part of one of the fastest growing fields in healthcare today.

  Tacoma, Washington

  Tacoma has been known as the City of Destiny for more than 100 years. Nestled on the shores of Commencement Bay on the West Coast of the U.S., Tacoma is an international gateway to the Pacific Rim and the world. The city also serves as a gateway to some of the most magnificent natural wonders in the world, such as Puget Sound, Mount Rainier National Park, and the Olympic Peninsula. Living in Tacoma, you can enjoy freshwater lakes, mountains, island hopping on Puget Sound, shopping, live theatre, and fine dining, ski resorts, hiking, and camping.