Urgent Care Supervising Physician - St. Paul Metro

The Supervising Physician partners with the Regional Medical Director in joint responsibility for the leadership, supervision and outcomes of all clinic activities and day to day operations.  Together they work to assure a vibrant practice based on sound stewardship principles, and for the retention and recruitment of clinic physicians and advanced practice providers. 

The Supervising Physician will work clinical and administrative time which consists of clinic time between a 0.50 FTE - 0.80 FTE and administrative time of a 0.15 FTE.  

The Supervising Physician is responsible for ensuring outstanding clinical care, patient satisfaction, and access to affordable care in the context of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim.

The Supervising Physician provides accountable leadership for all of the HealthPartners Medical Group goals and priorities, including the People, Experience, Health and Stewardship (Four Dimensions) goals.

The Supervising Physician has a good understanding of systems thinking and planning, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, a basic understanding of finance, and an ability to make and execute difficult decisions.

 

Reporting Relationship:

The Supervising Physician reports directly to the Regional Medical Director (RMD). 

Required Qualifications: 

• Physician in good standing in a primary care specialty (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics) or Emergency Medicine
• M.D., D.O., or foreign equivalent degree, board certification in Family Medicine, Med-Peds or Emergency Medicine 
• Minnesota medical practice license 
• Demonstrated communication skills and an ability to work effectively with all disciplines and levels of professionals within a large multi- specialty organization 
• A commitment to develop leadership skills

Position Responsibilities: 
The Supervising Physician will first and foremost lead by example: 
• Advocate and model the vision, mission, and values of HealthPartners 
• Provide care, to all patients, consistent with the Triple Aim. 
• Work a combined clinical and administrative time. Clinic time between a 0.50 FTE - 0.80 FTE.  Administrative time is 0.15 FTE.  
• Work within the Urgent Care Clinic leadership team to achieve organizational goals in all the Four Dimensions (Health, Experience, Stewardship, and People) 
• Assigned projects. 
• Understand, support, and lead consistent with the Group Practice Culture 
• Promote and represent the Urgent Care Clinics within the HealthPartners organization and within the community 

Urgent Care Clinic Locations: 
St. Paul Clinic

Como Clinic 

Arden Hills Clinic

Apple Valley Clinic

Woodbury Clinic
 

PEOPLE

• Promote partnership, collaboration, collegiality, and communication with urgent care physician and advanced practice provider colleagues. Develop and implement strategies to assess and improve morale among clinic staff and clinicians
• Provide leadership in recruiting new professional staff to the clinic
• Establish effective mentoring of new physicians
• Coordinate orientation and training of physicians and clinicians in the clinic, per medical group urgent care guidelines
• Support all clinic physicians’ and advanced practice clinicians’ success through ongoing conversations, coaching and structured meetings
• Conduct regularly scheduled group meetings with clinic physicians and advanced practice clinicians
• Set agendas and provide leadership at regular meetings with clinic physicians and other clinicians
• Assure that clinic physicians and advanced practice clinicians fulfill expectations for professional behavior, work quality, effort, productivity and hours. Demonstrate the ability to respectfully hold clinicians accountable to job expectations. Work collaboratively to create specific corrective action plans if job performance is deficient or behavioral concerns arise
• Routinely assess the work status of all physicians and advanced practice clinicians.  Actively promote their continuous development 

HEALTH

• Assure optimal clinic access and function by partnering with the Clinic Manager to manage physician staffing
• Monitor physician, advanced practice clinician and overall clinic performance in the HealthPartners Medical Group’s dashboard measures of access and health outcomes
• Actively promote and monitor effectiveness of clinic Care Model Process (CMP); introduce and assist with CMP Retraining.
• Review and share health outcomes data, and develop specific action plans for improvement