Medical Staff Lead Clinician

Summary

Join Virta Health, a company revolutionizing type 2 diabetes and weight-loss care, as a Physician Leader. Reporting to the Associate CMO, you will lead and mentor a team of 8-10 physicians and nurse practitioners while also seeing patients part-time. This leadership role involves overseeing medical care delivery, fostering team growth and collaboration, and leading strategic clinical initiatives. You will manage the team's people and processes to achieve practice goals efficiently and effectively. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership, communication, and clinical skills, along with experience managing physicians and clinical metrics. Virta offers a values-driven culture and competitive compensation.

Requirements

• MD or DO degree with at least one active state medical license
• Board Certified in an ABMS specialty, such as endocrinology, internal medicine, emergency medicine, or family practice
• 2+ years in a management role where you directly people-manage physicians or APPs, hiring them, firing them, writing performance reviews, etc
• Experience managing clinical and business metrics, including quality, clinical outcomes, and productivity
• Strong communication, collaboration, and team-building skills
• Comfortable managing a panel of patients with diabetes, pre-diabetes, and obesity

Responsibilities

• Provide quality oversight for medical care delivery
• Follow up and execute on improving workflows critical for safety and efficacy
• Monitoring of quality and safety
• Monthly review of clinician quality and efficiency metrics with team members
• Clinical QA of team members (and others’) clinical performance
• Develop a highly functional team of clinicians, further preparing high performers for leadership roles, while working proactively to performance manage those not meeting expectations
• Manage clinicians on your team, with responsibilities to include: Oversee onboarding of new physicians and NPs joining the team
• Regularly connect via 1:1 meetings with team members to discuss challenges, ideas for improvement, provide feedback
• Regular virtual and occasional in-person team meetings to build cohesion and advance common projects
• Review of quarterly cross-team feedback
• Semiannual performance reviews
• Participate in regular reviews of clinical events
• Work collaboratively with other team members matrixed or directly reporting to their team, including RNs and other team members
• Responsible for keeping the other team members connected to the team and the Virta mission/company
• Biweekly review of intake quality and patient feedback as appropriate
• Recruitment, interviewing, and onboarding of new team members
• Lead strategic initiatives across Virta within a specific clinical program area

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in a growth-stage organization or similar environment is preferred

Benefits

Compensation range is $201,536 - $231-650