Description

UNC Health Pediatrics at Apex is hiring a Pediatrician (MD/DO)!

At UNC Health Pediatrics at Apex, the focus is taking care of kids from birth to 18 years of age. Located conveniently at Kelly Road and Olive Chapel Road near Publix and Olive Chapel Elementary School, they offer after-school appointments. Providers collaborate with parents to provide the highest level of personalized care to meet the needs of the family. The team is dedicated to treating the whole child. Compassionate, child-centered care is the mission.

Position Specifics:

• Outpatient only
• Adjunct faculty affiliation with UNC, teaching medical students in the clinic is possible
• Competitive salary with excellent benefits
• Excellent, prime location in Apex, NC
• Positive culture in a physician-led organization and large health care system

Clinic Hours:

Monday - Thursday 8:00am - 5:00pm

Job Qualifications:

• Medical School Graduate (MD/DO)
• Board-certified pediatrics required
• NC State License preferred
• Must be eligible for credentialing
• 2-plus years of experience required

UNC Health Medical Group (UNCHMG) practices are patient-centered. Our providers are trained to assist you in the detection, treatment, and prevention of illness. Each practice?s goal is to help you achieve optimum well-being through education, anticipatory guidance, and strategic medical interventions.

High-quality health care begins with high-caliber people. Our steadfast commitment to the health of our community begins within. If you seek an environment that promotes excellence, leadership, and autonomy in clinical practice, then a career with UNCHMG may be for you. Physician practices affiliated with the UNCHMG are offering opportunities for employment.

Become part of an inclusive organization with nearly 40,000 diverse employees, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.

To inquire about this opportunity, email Owen Watkins at owen.watkins@unchealth.unc.edu

Other information:
Education Requirements:

• Meeting the Board Certification requirements. Graduation from an accredited school of medicine.

• Board Certified in Specialty; MD License in healthcare specialty
• DEA;MD;BLS

• Prefer prior experience in Pediatrics.

• Language Skills: Should be able to communicate proficiently in English.

High-level quantitative and qualitative reasoning skills are essential in order to diagnose medical and clinical issues presented by patients.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: 

North Carolina Medical License, DEA License, BLS certification. Board-certified in area of specialty.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, kneel, bend, and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Ability to lift up to 25 pounds required.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.A physician generally works in a medical office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Reasoning Ability: High-level quantitative and qualitative reasoning skills are essential in order to diagnose medical and clinical issues presented by patients.

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC Health Medical Group

Organization Unit: UNC Health Pediatrics at Apex

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Apex

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

About UNC Health

UNC Health is charting a new course for the organization, one that reflects our aspirations, values and the high expectations customers have in today’s healthcare marketplace. These changes will help the organization adopt business and medical practices that will help us become a more responsive, customer-focused, integrated healthcare system. UNC Health and its 33,000 employees, continue to serve as North Carolina’s Health Care System, caring for patients from all 100 counties and beyond our borders. We continue to leverage the world class research conducted in the UNC School of Medicine, translating that innovation to life-saving and life-changing therapies, procedures, and techniques for the patients who rely on us.

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