Area Medical Director - Physician or APP

Nextcare Introduction

NextCare strives to be the leader in high access healthcare, offering urgent care, occupational health, virtual health and primary care services to our patients. With offering services in eleven states (Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming) and over 165 urgent care clinic locations, we offer exceptional, affordable care to patients across the country.

At NextCare, we constantly strive to provide you with the highest degree of caring, growth, integrity, results and teamwork. These essential core values form the foundation of our relationships with patients, customers, investors, partners and one another. Extraordinarily high-performance standards serve as critical guides for making important clinical and business decisions. The expression of these standards is evident in our behavior, our attitude, and our approach to our daily work. The product of our strict adherence to core values is the ability to harness tremendous organizational energy to achieve our goal of upholding the highest standard for quality and service within the high access healthcare. This unique combination of values, performance standards and commitment serves as the key to our success.

What we are looking for

NextCare Urgent Care is looking for an Area Medical Director who will provide both clinical and administrative services to NextCare clinics within the Northern Arizona (Flagstaff/Cottonwood/Prescott/Prescott Vally) area. This position can be filled with either a Physician (Boarded in Family or Emergency Medicine) or Advanced Practice Provider (Family NP-C or PA-C)

Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively with medical and clinical operations leaders to support the day-to-day operations of assigned service area
• Provides guidance and leadership pursuant to the Provider educational resources within NextCare
• Support and provides input into the development of standardized clinical policies and procedures
• Serves as an organizational leader in the implementation of NextCare initiatives that directly or indirectly impact the provider(s)
• Provides feedback regarding the purchase of medical equipment, diagnostic service, on-site pharmacy inventory, and other appropriate
• Defines and analyzes clinical metrics, including documentation errors, coding trends, and the Provider Dashboard
• Defines desired outcomes, prepares the organization for change, if necessary, and manages the momentum of that change
• Evaluates clinical and financial ramifications of organizational decisions and provides input and insight, assuring that NextCare is achieving the best possible outcome, cost effectively
• Assists in the internal and external promotion of NextCare services
• Acts as a principal liaison and facilitator for conflicts that occur between providers or providers and other NextCare associates or management
• Interfaces with customers, employers and the medical component of health plans as needed
• Supports local marketing initiatives
• In collaboration with the Clinical Operations and Provider Scheduler, works to ensure that all shifts are covered with adequate medical coverage to ensure minimal wait times for patients 365 days of the year
• Serves a key role in provider recruitment in collaboration with the Provider Recruiter and assists in the evaluation of provider compensation; serves as a liaison to educational institutions and residency programs
• Responsible for hiring, onboarding, and termination of providers in the local area, as applicable
• Provides a key role in managing and mitigating risk Proven track record or understanding and support in implementing change management

Essential Education, Experience And Skills:

• 3-5 years of experience in a medical leadership role managing and guiding a team as well as providing one on one performance management
• Arizona Licensed Physician or Advanced Practice Provider (Family Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant)
• Proven track record or understanding and support in implementing change management
• Previous experience in strategic planning
• Previous experience in establishing standards in risk management
• Previous experience in identifying training needs and oversight in the develop of educational programs in response to those needs
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrates solid decision-making and negotiating skills
• Demonstrates knowledge of compliance and regulatory issues

Benefits:

NextCare offers full time provider employees: CME/license reimbursement program, malpractice insurance, medica/dental/vision insurance, health savings account, basic life, voluntary employee/spouse/child life, long term and short term disability, employee assistance program, critical illness, accident, legal, identity theft and paid time off benefits. Employees of all statuses are offered 401(k) Plan benefits. Benefits are offered per policy and plan rules.

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