Physician Engagement Specialist
Listed compensation
$36.51-$54.31/hr
The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed
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Job Description
Where You’ll Work
Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, is a 22-state network of more than 9,000 physicians, 63,000 employees, and 400 care centers, including hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging and surgery centers, home health, and primary care clinics.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and underserved. For more information, please visit our website at dignityhealth.org. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
One Community. One Mission. One California
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Physician Engagement Specialist, you will serve as the crucial liaison between Informatics and physicians, ensuring the successful integration of clinical systems and processes across the organization.
Every day, you will collaborate with the applications and support team to develop best practices for physician utilization of clinical information systems.
Your duties include training clinicians on software and IT processes, assisting in the development and implementation of current and future hospital clinical information systems, and working closely with leadership and stakeholders to enhance efficiencies and continuity of care through technology.
To be successful this role, you will have strong communication and interpersonal skills, a deep understanding of clinical workflows and IT systems, and a passion for driving technology adoption to enhance patient care.
Education of physicians and clinical staff. Effectively serves as resource to providers, AHP's, extenders, physician office staff and staff re: use of clinical information system tools (Cerner, consult accelerator, etc.). Develops educational tools for physicians and other clinicians.
- Comfortable with 1 on 1 training or managing small groups on multiple computers if training in group setting.
- Coordinates physician and other clinician service requests and incident resolutions through the Dignity Health IT Help Desk and Dignity Health change request process.
- Demonstrates understands physician needs and practice patterns and workflow in hospitals.
Collaborates with Clinical Informatics Director, Project Managers, Clinical Informatics and stake holders to optimize current clinical information system to meet the needs of the physicians. Serves in liaison role for all new physician-related applications.
- Participates in cross divisional projects as needed and performs other duties as assigned.
- Job Requirements
- Required
- Bachelors Other in healthcare related field or equivalent professional experience
- Minimum of five (5) years’ related experience in acute healthcare setting
Preferred
Project Management and/or Project Team Leader experience, prior experience training/educating others and
Experience in electronic medical record applications
Key Responsibilities
The Physician Engagement Specialist acts as a liaison between IT and clinical staff to ensure the successful integration and utilization of clinical information systems. They are responsible for training clinicians, managing service requests, and collaborating with leadership to optimize workflows and technology adoption.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in a healthcare-related field and possess at least five years of experience in an acute healthcare setting. Proficiency in electronic medical record applications and prior experience in training or project management are preferred.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor degree
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Key Skills
Healthcare Administration Career Context
Of the 40 active Healthcare Administration listings this role was benchmarked against, 43% are remote, 28% have no call, 75% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$94k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $85k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | $76k–$113k | Healthcare Administration median $59k (middle half $46k–$74k)16 comparable listings, Oct 2026 |
| Cost-of-living adjusted pay | ~$85k in purchasing power | California index 110.7 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Healthcare Administration listings in California | 13 active | 125 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 43% remote · 28% no call · 75% no weekends40 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | not stated | US healthcare professional listings: 5% state a sign-on bonus (median $4k) · 6% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Oct 2026 |
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