Clinical Associate

The Doctor; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid sick leave

Health benefits

Educational assistance

Job summary

The Doctor is a patient‑centered primary care and wellness practice with two clinics in Los Angeles (West Hollywood and Downtown). We are hiring a Clinical Associate to work alongside our physicians and nurse practitioners, rooming patients, drawing blood, giving injections, and supporting clinical workflows.

You will be trained, reviewed, and mentored; compensation is $23.00–$30.00 per hour, full-time (40 hours/week).

Qualifications

• A medical degree from an accredited school and hands-on clinical experience (at least 1 year).
• Clear, kind communication in English; Spanish, Russian or Tagalog is a plus.
• Comfort with computers and electronic health records; you can type as you listen.

Responsibilities

• Room patients, take vitals, give injections and draw blood after sign-off.
• Scribe visits in real time and prepare charts before patients arrive.
• Enter and track orders, referrals and authorizations, route results per protocol.
• Teach patients from clinician-approved material and make follow‑up calls.
• Help maintain quality registries and improve intake, rooming and documentation workflows.

Skills

English communication

EHR familiarity

Team collaboration

Education

Medical degree (MD/MBBS/DO) or equivalent

Tools

Electronic Health Records

Job description

The Doctor is an independent, LGBTQ+-focused primary care, wellness and mental health practice with two clinics in Los Angeles: West Hollywood and Downtown. We look after the whole person, from primary care, sexual health, HIV prevention and care, and gender-affirming care to mental health and wellness, with a small team that knows its patients by name.

We were founded by an immigrant, and much of our core team came to this country from somewhere else. That shapes how we hire: we care about what you can do and who you are, not where your diploma is from, and we help our people build the careers they came here for.

We are tech-forward by conviction. We build many of our own tools, including AI assistants that our clinicians review and supervise, so that our people spend their time on patients rather than paperwork. If you have an idea for doing something better, you will probably be the one asked to build it.

The office is warm, witty and professional. We work hard, we laugh a lot, we do not tolerate cruelty, and dad jokes are welcome. Everyone gets Apple gear and the apps to do the job well, and every employee has access to our own care services.

If you want to help change how a doctor's office works in this country, come work with us.

About the role

We are hiring a Clinical Associate: a clinically trained professional who works alongside our physicians and nurse practitioners every day, in West Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles. You will room and prepare patients, draw blood and give injections after our training sign-off, document visits as a scribe, prepare charts before visits, coordinate referrals and results, teach patients from clinician-approved material, and help us build better clinical workflows.

This role fits someone who trained as a physician, in the United States or anywhere else, and wants to work in US primary care while building their own path forward. We pay every hour, teach you our systems, and after six months we help with the next step: up to $5,250 a year in educational assistance, two paid hours a week of protected study or shadowing time, a clinician mentor, and documented experience letters for your applications.

What you'll do

• Room patients, take vitals and history, give injections and draw blood (after our sign-off), run point-of-care tests and EKGs, always with a licensed clinician on site.
• Scribe visits in real time and prepare charts before patients arrive.
• Enter and track the orders, referrals and prior authorizations our clinicians decide on; route results and messages by protocol.
• Teach patients from clinician-approved material and make follow-up calls.
• Help keep our quality registries and design better intake, rooming and documentation workflows, including the clinical content behind our AI tools, reviewed by our clinicians.

Qualifications

• A medical degree (MD, MBBS, DO or equivalent) from an accredited school in any country, and at least a year of hands-on clinical experience.
• Clear, kind communication in English; Spanish, Russian or Tagalog is a plus.
• Comfort with computers and electronic health records; you can type as you listen.
• BLS/CPR within 30 days of starting (we cover it), and authorization to work in the United States.
• Warmth and respect for our community: LGBTQ+ patients, sexual health, HIV prevention and care, gender-affirming care.

Pay, hours and benefits

$23.00 to $30.00 per hour, full-time (40 hours a week), hourly and non-exempt with overtime under California law. This is a good-faith range for the position; where you start depends on your clinical experience and your English. Paid sick leave and paid time off per our handbook, health benefits per our plan, and the six-month Pathway described above.

Important

This is not a licensed clinical role. The Clinical Associate works under the supervision of our licensed clinicians and does not diagnose, treat, prescribe or triage. A California medical license is not required.

The Doctor is an equal opportunity employer. We make hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and California's Fair Chance Act.