Job Summary
Job Description
What defines you? If it’s integrity, excellence, and a caring heart, Skilled Physicians Group is the practice you’ve been looking for.
We’re a nationwide mobile surgical practice focused on skin, wound, and ostomy patient issues in nursing home settings. What truly sets us apart, though, are the values that guide our company and our healing. We are caring, ethical, and conscientious practitioners who understand the importance of working collaboratively and putting patients first.
What you’ll find at Skilled Physician’s Group:
- A new and exciting specialty, in a hands-on bedside procedure-oriented practice
- A chance to educate and empower nursing home staff to better understand and better treat wounds
- Mentoring, professional guidance, equipment, malpractice insurance, credentialing, and highly advanced wound care and surgical training
What you won’t find:
- Physicians who went to medical school for the title, or who enjoy the chance to bully subordinates and bark orders at them
- Anyone whose procedure technique is more about “working on meat” than about relieving real human suffering
- Burned out or apathetic colleagues waiting to run out the clock
At Skilled Physicians Group, our culture is different.
According to a recent study from the Mayo Clinic, physicians are suffering from low career satisfaction, rising rates of work-home conflicts, and greater depersonalization. Long hours and frequent call duty are contributors to poor work-life balance, greater burnout, and more professional dissatisfaction.
Our practice is different. Our hard-working and highly skilled physicians enjoy seeing a high number of patients, but don’t work nights or weekends, and don’t take call. They have time to recharge, decompress, and bring their best selves to the bedside. Our focus is on delivering exceptional care to wound-care patients in nursing homes, and your colleagues will be interesting, ethical, compassionate healers who care about real people and real outcomes. Sacrificing your personal well-being and your relationships with your family and friends won’t make you a better doctor, but it will burn you out quickly.
Many physicians feel like they work in fields where patients only get sicker. In our specialty, we heal patients fast and get real results.
Many physicians feel isolated, or on their own in big impersonal hospitals or practices. Our team is focused on camaraderie and collaboration. In fact, uur goal is to empower doctors to live up to the etymology of the word “doctor,” (from the Latin docere, to teach). Our physicians are constantly working with, educating, and empowering the nursing facility staff as part of a holistic care team. We value education and learning in every aspect of our work, from our own individual practice to pushing the scientific boundaries of what’s possible in wound care.
Many physicians are worried that they have to sacrifice having a life to have a career. Our physicians have a job satisfaction rating of well over 90%. In fact, we recently called a team member of Skilled Physicians Group to ask her for her advice on what to share with applicants. She was in the middle of documenting on her EMR on her iPad, while relaxing down by a nearby river. Her response? “Tell them that no matter how hard I'm working, I know I will make it home to my family before dinner.”
So if you are:
- Interested in becoming an expert in your field and highly advanced in your subspecialty
- Talented, driven, and committed to excellence
- Compassionate in procedures and hard-working in all aspects of your professional life; and
- Looking for a fast-moving specialty that will let you practice medicine with a phenomenal team
We want to hear from you. Your current specialty and training background are less critical than your patient-facing skills and your commitment to care. We can assist you with any gaps in your knowledge, and we will connect you with mentors, peers, and all the training and support you need to be successful.
Applicants should be available for a minimum of two full weekdays, but full-time (Monday-Friday) physicians will receive priority consideration. Our headquarters are based in Los Angeles, but we have positions open nationwide.
We invite you to give us a call or enter your information; we want to get to know you, and we want you to meet our incredible team. Together, we can go far.
Disclaimer: Skilled Physicians Group will ask all candidates to perform pre-employment confidential testing and appropriate relevant skills testing prior to hiring. Skilled Physicians Group is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information and sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation).