Physician PRN

Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care have an immediate opening for a Physician PRN.

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Status: PRN

Schedule: Varies, includes hospice patient inpatient care center rounding, some weekends

Hourly Pay Range: $103.43 - $121.53

Supplemental Pay: Based on position, schedule and/or availability: Overtime

Mileage and Expense Reimbursement: Sixty-two and a half cents per mile – one of the highest in the industry!

Culture, Benefits and Perks

• We value engagement, community, and outreach initiatives and know it matters for our team members and our patients. We provide welcoming and supportive care to our patients and a work environment where all team members feel respected and valued.
• We support a culture of work-life balance and provide team members with two, free, confidential and robust benefit programs designed to provide solutions to the logistical and financial problems that arise in life.
• Employer pays over 90% of employee medical premium in some plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with significant Employer Funding: Single $1,000, Family $2,000
• Healthcare Benefits are effective on the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
• Extensive Paid Time Off (PTO/Vacation Pay/Sick Leave): accrued
• Seven Paid Holidays with an additional Floating Holiday
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with Employer Match: 50% match up to 8% of total

Compensation

• Company-Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Career & Logo wear
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Clinical Career Ladders
• Certification Pay
• Generous Discover-a-Star Team Member Referral Program
• Robust Team Member Service Awards
• Extensive Leadership Development Training

Rewarding Work You Will Do

Provides physician services within the spectrum of hospice and palliative care.

The Physician guides, directs, and is a care consultant to the Outpatient, Inpatient and Palliative departments’ staff, the patient’s attending physician and other providers to assure standards, quality, and excellence of care is provided. Fosters and maintains external relationships between the hospice & palliative care programs and other professionals and organizations engaged in health care services.

• Provides physician services consistent with hospice and palliative care philosophy. Consults with attending physicians and palliative care/hospice staff as requested to address goals of care, pain and symptom management for patients.
• In absence of Medical Director, may be designated to assume responsibility for the medical component of the patient care program.
• Reviews clinical information upon patient referral to document disease diagnosis, prognosis, therapeutic regiment and assessment of patient’s health.
• Participates at Inter-Disciplinary Group/Team (IDG or IDT) patient care meetings. Utilization review of patient care as necessary.
• Determines clinical appropriateness of hospice and/or palliative admissions, transfers from palliative care to hospice, and discharges of hospice or palliative patients as needed.
• Assists the President with program philosophy and service model for hospice & palliative care.
• Follows hospice program policy when providing supervision for cross coverage of physician service.
• Serves as liaison with attending physicians, local hospitals, medical schools and teaching hospitals. Provides support to attending and consulting physicians, and oversees patient medical services. If the attending physician is not available, the physician is responsible for meeting the medical needs of a hospice patient.
• Conducts home, Inpatient, or facility visits to hospice & palliative patients, as needed.
• Participates in planning, developing and evaluating the hospice & palliative care department services within the agency as a whole, including but not limited to, internal and external committees and input into development of policy and procedures.
• Remains available for rotating schedule of on-call assignments. Phone coverage after hours and weekends for hospice and palliative consult service patients. Patient visits after hours and weekends when necessary.

What We Are Going to Love About You

• Minimum Education: Graduate from approved school of medicine.
• Minimum Experience: Three years’ experience as practicing physician in hospice, internal medicine, family practice, pediatrics, oncology or related field.
• Required License: Current Colorado Physician License to practice medicine.

Board certified (or board eligible) in Internal Medicine or Family Practice or Hospice & Palliative Medicine. Colorado state driver’s license and proof of insurance. Current CPR certification.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift minimum of 35 lbs.

Care Synergy is a network of mission driven, nonprofit healthcare organizations dedicated to caring for very ill, frail, and primarily elderly individuals by keeping them at home and out of the hospital while maximizing comfort, dignity, and quality of life.

The Care Synergy enterprise includes a group of collaborating nonprofit Affiliates across Colorado’s Front Range that share resources, expertise, and infrastructure to deliver high quality, compassionate care. Collectively, the enterprise generates approximately $100 million in annual revenue and serves thousands of individuals and families each year through hospice, home health, palliative care, CAPABLE, wellness, and PACE programs.

Across the Care Synergy network, the organizations provide significant community impact, including more than 7,000 hospice patients served annually, more than 2,000 palliative care patients, more than 355,000 hospice days of care each year, and more than $1.6 million in charitable care provided annually.

Care Synergy affiliated programs include The Denver Hospice, Pathways Hospice, Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care, Colorado Visiting Nurse Association, CAPABLE, and Superior Medical Equipment, along with PACE programs including Colorado PACE and Pathways PACE.

If you need assistance completing the electronic application please contact our Talent Acquisition team via email at cs-recruitment@caresynergynetwork.org. You may also call the Human Resources Department at (303) 228-5647. Applications can be completed in-person at any one of our affiliate office locations.

The Organization does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, creed, ancestry, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation/identity, transgender status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

This prohibition includes unlawful harassment based on any of these protected classifications.