Job Description

Pediatrics - Physician at IPHCA-Chicago - Illinois Primary Health Care Association summary:

The Pediatrician provides primary and preventative medical care to infants, children, and adolescents across multiple communities, focusing on increasing health and wellness access. They collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to coordinate comprehensive care including dental, mental health, and addiction treatment services, emphasizing patient-centered and data-driven practices. This role supports a community health center network committed to health equity, social justice, and innovative care delivery to diverse and underserved populations.

Client Overview

Our Mission:

We boldly commit to supporting the well-being of our communities, ensuring equity in access and delivering exceptional care inspired by a culture of innovation.

Our Vision:

Strong, healthy communities, where everyone has access to high quality health and wellness care, leading to better social and emotional health.

Our Core Values:

We are committed to social justice, health equity, and access to quality services for all.

We engage a patient centered approach that empowers all to live healthy lives.

We celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion in all that we do.

We support the transformation of our historically disadvantaged communities to strength and wellness through our trauma informed care.

We are fearless, optimistic, and innovative in our approaches and believe that we can overcome even the most severe barriers.

We invest in our employees, providing them with the tools they need to grow and do their best work.

We seek opportunities to grow our impact through strategic collaborations that embodies our vision and values.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

We are committed to social justice, health equity, and access to quality services for all. We work in spaces formed and maintained by systematic oppression, impacting our employees and those we serve. We strive to end, repair, and fight against these inequities and injustices by challenging the systems, laws, policies and key stakeholders in the health and human services industries which threaten diversity dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, language, age, abilities, caregiver status, poverty, health access and literacy, religion, citizenship status, and veteran status .

Job Description

This Community Health Center is an award winning nationally recognized leader in community health care, and the third largest community health center network in Illinois, seeking a Pediatrician to join their team.

Through their progressive and coordinated model of care, they have built a reputation as an innovator of patient centered health and an essential component of the health care ecosystem.

Their staff of over 1,000, including health care providers, social workers, educators, counselors and advocates, is all committed to serving more than 70,000 patients and clients annually across 19 health centers throughout Chicago and the counties of Cook, Iroquois, Kane, Kankakee, Stark, Vermilion and Will.

The Pediatrician will:

• focus on increasing access to health and wellness services to babies, kids, and teens in the 565 communities we serve
• work collaboratively to coordinate primary and preventative medical care, dental care, mental health care and addictions treatment services to ensure the whole patient is being treated effectively
• focus on evidence-based practices and data to create value that can be experienced throughout our services

Other Benefits

• Health insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Dependent coverage

• Voluntary insurance (accident, critical illness, etc.)

• Health and dependent care savings accounts

• Short/long term disability

• 401k/403b • 401k/403b match or safe harbor contribution

• Vacation

• Sign-on bonus - $5000

• Retention bonus $5000, productivity bonus to be determined.

Keywords:

pediatrics, primary care, preventative medicine, child health, community health center, patient-centered care, health equity, mental health coordination, addiction treatment, healthcare innovation

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