Staff Physician with Obstetrics

Santa Rosa Community Health; Santa Rosa (CA); On-site; USD 212,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

Santa Rosa Community Health seeks a Family Physician to provide full-scope primary care at Lombardi or Vista campuses in Santa Rosa, CA. The role includes obstetric call duties and a prenatal panel within a busy FQHC.

The position emphasizes continuity of care, teaching residents, and collaborating with a diverse care team while maintaining CA licensure and privileges.

Qualifications

• Active California medical license in good standing.
• Board certification or eligibility in Family Medicine.
• If surgical, obstetric fellowship with minimum 100 cesarean sections.

Responsibilities

• Provide continuous primary care to panel patients within CA license scope.
• Use Epic EMR for encounters, inbox management and referrals.
• Coordinate with specialists and care centers as needed.
• Promote quality initiatives and improve workflows and protocols.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team for patient care and education.
• Participate in obstetric call coverage and labor/delivery supervision.
• Teach/ supervise residents and physician assistants.
• Maintain licenses and hospital privileges as required.

Skills

Bilingual (Spanish/English)

Interpersonal skills

Teamwork

Judgment & problem solving

Education

Active California Medical License

Board Certified/Eligible in Family Medicine

Obstetric Fellowship (preferred)

CPR (BLS) certification

100 cesarean deliveries (minimum)

Tools

Epic EMR (OCHIN clinic, Sutter Epic hospital)

Outlook/Office software

Job description

Job Details

Job Location: Lombardi Campus - Santa Rosa, CA 95407.

Position Type: Full Time.

Salary Range: $211,660.00 - $255,709.00.

Job Summary

This unique and challenging position is ideal for the Family Physician who is ready to provide full‑scope, primary care to all age ranges of patients seen at a busy FQHC located in the heart of Sonoma County.

You will be predominantly stationed at one of two of our largest clinics – Vista or Lombardi. Either position includes your own prenatal panel of singleton pregnancies, as well as options for comprehensive reproductive health and gynecologic care.

Lombardi campus is located in southeast SantaRosa, a predominantly Latino neighborhood where Spanish is a preferred first or second language for most. Vista campus, the home clinic of our Sutter SantaRosa Family Medicine Residency, sees the most broad spectrum of patients representing a wide variety of cultures and languages.

Because of the co‑location of the residency, there are multiple options for teaching and precepting. Additionally, the position includes membership on the SRCH Obstetric Call team, where you will serve as Attending and delivering physician for patients admitted to our affiliated hospital.

The primary call manages all patients and Attends vaginal deliveries. Family Physicians who have completed an Obstetric fellowship and are privileged to perform cesarean sections serve as the immediate backup to Primary. The hospital hosts the Family Medicine Residency (the same one that has its home clinic at Vista), so inherent in Team membership is a teaching role of residents on Labor & Delivery.

Specific Tasks / Duties in Clinic

• Create an ongoing, continuity primary care relationship with patients on your panel; diagnose and treat SRCH patients within the scope of your CA license and FM Board Certification, using evidence‑based medicine and working with the support of a clinic team, including Medical Assistants, nursing, among others.
• Proficiently use clinic EMR (OCHIN Epic), including signing encounters within agency timeline standards and active and appropriate Inbox management.
• Facilitate referral for and coordination with other specialists or care centers.
• Promote and support quality initiatives by the agency; including input on improving workflows, treatment guidelines and protocols.
• Actively support organizational priorities of patient care, quality, education, and sustainability, with an agency goal of a positive work environment.
• Participate in regular clinic, agency and clinician meetings, and other professional activities, as designated by the Site or Medical Director or OB Team Leader.
• Meet regularly with Clinician Lead and/or Medical Director to review patient care issues and treatment guidelines and protocols.
• Provide as needed clinical supervision and consult to Family Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants who are members of your team or part of the clinic.
• Collateral duty assignment as the signing supervisor for up to four APCs.
• Participate in ongoing training; maintain HIPAA compliance; and support variance reporting system.

Specific Tasks / Duties for OB Call Team

• Take OB call (primary or primary and backup), pending your role.
• Call schedule is selected and decided upon by OB Team members.
• Provide clinical supervision of Family Medicine Residents on labor and delivery.
• Participate in OB Team weekly meetings, both full team and site‑based.
• Attend monthly OB CME; attend regular hospital OB/Peds M&M.
• Maintain all necessary licenses and privileges as required by hospital and SRCH malpractice and insurance.

Qualifications – Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Active California License; in good standing with the Medical Board of California.
• Board Eligible or Board Certified in Family Medicine.
• If surgical privileges sought, completion of Obstetric Fellowship; including minimum 100 primary cesarean sections.
• Also certification current (Instructor status preferred).
• 50 deliveries in the last 36 months.
• Current CPR (BLS adequate) certifications.

Experience, Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrated proficiency with procedures and tasks enumerated on Staff Physician competency list.
• Proficiency working with electronic medical records (EMR); specifically, Epic (both OCHIN in clinic, and Sutter Epic in hospital). Experience with Outlook email function and related software products to enhance clinic and agency communication.
• Proficiency in Spanish and English (speak, read, and write), especially in medical setting, especially language and topic around obstetric care, preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to be sensitive with persons of various social, cultural, economic and educational backgrounds.
• Good judgment, problem solving, and decision‑making skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team, both in clinic and hospital.

Equal Opportunity Employer

SRCH is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.

Physical Requirements

• Use standard office equipment to access, input, and retrieve information from a computer.
• Use computer keyboard with manual and finger dexterity and wrist‑finger speed sufficient to perform repetitive actions efficiently for extended periods of time.
• Reach forward, up, down, and to the side.
• Sit or stand for minimum periods of one hour at a time and come and go from the work area repeatedly throughout the day.
• Lift up to twenty (20) pounds.
• Give and follow verbal and written instructions with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Perform complex mental functions; collect, interpret, and analyze complex data and information, including developing differential diagnosis for patients’ medical conditions.
• Coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Perform basic arithmetic functions, including for prescribing medications.
• Understand complex laws, regulations, and policies, at an agency and community level.
• Vision: see details of objects at close range.
• Travel to other office and community locations in a timely manner, including to hospital when on OB call.

Accommodation

SRCH provides reasonable accommodation for individuals with a physical or mental disability to apply for jobs and to perform the essential functions of their jobs unless it would cause an undue hardship.