Physician Team Lead-Urgent Care, Optum NV

Southwest Medical, part of the Optum family of businesses, is seeking a Team Lead Urgent Care Physician to join our team in Las Vegas, NV. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.

As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you’ll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone.

At Optum, you’ll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. Here, you’ll work alongside talented peers in a collaborative environment that is guided by diversity and inclusion while driving towards the Quadruple Aim.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Supervise providers with respect to administrative functions including productivity, patient satisfaction, professional behavior, compliance with medical records and other administrative duties.
• Responsible for onboarding and ongoing teaching and support for providers at assigned site
• Liaison between OnDemand Medicine division and OptumCare leadership and site providers.
• Responsibilities include scheduling providers for entire site and adjusting schedules as needed, reviewing timecards, filling open shifts, as well as attending monthly leadership meetings
• Oversee patient care services and be first point of contact for patient feedback or any issues related to policies and procedures.
• Engage, assess, diagnose, and treat patients presenting for care.
• Using sound medical judgment, triage and direct patients to alternative levels of care for presenting problem and/or follow-up.
• Use resources of the site to engage providers and patients in addressing wellness and gaps in preventive care, in accordance with evidence-based practice and standards of care
• Utilize technology to thoroughly document visits and treatments in a timely and comprehensive manner in accordance with OptumCare and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrate and reinforce value of On Demand Medicine services during each visit.
• Maintain service level standards for response, visit time, and patient satisfaction, as well as currency with evidence-based practice standards
• Provide clinical triage support to medical group patient services team as needed, as well as staffing support to OptumCare/On Demand Medicine team as needed.
• Support and embrace Quadruple Aim of high-quality care, accessible care, controlled costs, and high patient and provider and staff satisfaction.
• Support and embrace C-I-Care program.

Position Highlights:

• Providers work primarily three 12-hour work weeks on-site in one of our urgent care clinics, with some weekends, nights and holiday shifts distributed evenly among the staff.
• Attractive base salary, sign on bonus, and comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and life insurance, STD/LTD, professional liability, matching 401K, paid vacation, CME, and eight company paid holidays.

Required Qualifications:

• Board Certified MD or DO in related field of medicine with experience treating all ages
• Unrestricted DEA and state license in NV or ability to obtain prior to employment
• Minimum of 3 years of clinical experience in an urgent care setting is ideal
• Intermediate level of proficiency in PC-based work, including basic Microsoft Word and Outlook
• Proficiency in EMR
• Experience in a leadership or administrative role preferred, but not required

About Optum

Optum is the health care technology and innovation company of the UnitedHealth Group enterprise along with UnitedHealthcare. We’re a global organization that’s evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live their healthiest life. With our hands across all aspects of health, we'll provide you with a rewarding career that enables you to grow in the directions that best fit your passions. This is your opportunity to be part of a team that’s dedicated to Caring. Connecting. Growing together.