Seeking Clinical Practice Manager of Primary Care for Excellent VA Leadership Opportunity in Fairview, Oregon

Position Information

The East Portland/Fairview, Oregon Veterans Administration Community Based Outpatient Clinic is seeking a full-time Board-Certified/Board Eligible Family Practice or Internal Medicine physician for its out-patient clinic in Fairview, Oregon for our Primary Care Clinical Practice Manager.  Being part of Portland VA Medical Center that provides services to an integrated network of care facilities, and a distributed system of outpatient clinics and hospitals located throughout Oregon.  The PVAMC is a 303-bed medical center providing primary care to local veterans, as well as a quaternary referral center for veterans in Oregon, southern Washington, and parts of Idaho. Last year 80,000 patients were treated in the PVAMC system.

The Clinic Practice Manager will provide management and leadership of interdisciplinary patient care services within the Primary Care setting, this position is 60% administration/management and 40% clinical (direct patient care).  The Clinic Practice Manager will be responsible with the Nurse Operations Manager for the daily operations of the assigned practice group.  The incumbent will be the first-line supervisor for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants within that practice group.

Candidates must be board certified in Family Practice or Internal Medicine and have demonstrated leadership and have administrative capabilities.  Must be strongly motivated in promoting appropriate staff education and development programs, and demonstrate a commitment to professional enrichment, merit promotion, equal employment opportunity and positive labor relations.

We are seeking a Clinical Practice Manager with a strong clinical, and administrative skills who will provide oversight of day-to-day operations, be clinically active, have excellent communication skills. Academic experience a plus, and opportunities for education and collaboration with our academic partner is possible.

The ideal candidate must be strongly motivated to promote continuing education for staff, inter-professional training, and be committed to professional enrichment, merit promotion, equal employment opportunity, and positive labor relations. An OHSU academic appointment may be  commensurate with experience.

Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday-Friday, (minimal call for abnormal labs).

• Must be U.S. Citizen
• Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in the U.S.
• Board Certification in Family Practice or Internal Medicine

Community Information

Portland, Oregon is a great city with distinctive and interesting neighborhoods, full of good restaurants and bars, coffee shops on every corner, local brewers, and hundreds of food carts where you can try out food from around the world. Portland is a safe, very clean and beautiful city. Portland is a safe, very clean and beautiful city. Portlanders are friendly and helpful. Even though Portland has 2.2 million people living in it--and has all the benefits and amenities of a big city--it has a friendly, small-town feel. Portland has one of the best public transit systems in America. Portland is also the most bicycle friendly city in America. You do not need a car to enjoy living in and exploring Portland! Portland is often called the "beer-capital of the world", with more varieties and brands of beer made in local breweries than anywhere else--and with over a dozen of beer festivals held in the city every year! Oregon is renowned for its wine, with over a hundred wineries in and near Portland, where you can sample world-class pinot noir. Oregon is a place of natural beauty & exciting adventures. Outstanding hiking, skiing, snow shoeing, and many other outdoor activities can be found within 60–90-minute drive from downtown.  Oregon boasts the most diverse climate in all the United States with cool rainforests and hot deserts, ocean beaches and snow-covered mountains.

Benefits and Features

The position offers a competitive salary based on education, training and experience and includes a full benefit package, student debt repayment, an annual CME stipend all designed to support a high-quality professional practice and favorable work-life-family balance. VA does this by offering: Paid Time Off in the form of 26 Days paid annual leave, 13 Days paid sick leave per year, 11 Federal holidays with pay, and 5-Day paid absence to attend approved CME courses. Insurance to include Health-Dental-Vision care insurance programs to choose from with premiums partially paid by VA; Flexible Spending Accounts; Term life insurance, family, and additional coverage options are available with the cost shared by the Federal Government; and Long-term care insurance available as an option. Federal Retirement Plan thru the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) - A three-tiered retirement plan composed of 1) Social Security benefits; 2) FERS-FRAE basic benefits (pension); and 3) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) which is a 401K-type plan, with up to five percent government matching contributions.  

To Explore This Physician Opportunity Further

Please forward copy of your Cover Letter and Curriculum Vitae to Henry "Hank" Laguatan, VA National Healthcare Recruitment Consultant at Henry.Laguatan@va.gov or call (206) 459-7927.

About East Portland/Fairview, Oregon Veterans Administration Community Based Outpatient Clinic

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 VA Medical Centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics) to over 9 million Veterans enrolled in the VA health care program. VHA Medical Centers provide a wide range of services including traditional hospital-based services such as surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology and physical therapy. In addition, most of our medical centers offer additional medical and surgical specialty services including audiology & speech pathology, dermatology, dental, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, podiatry, prosthetics, urology, and vision care. Some medical centers also offer advanced services such as organ transplants and plastic surgery.

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