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Centra Care
Saint Cloud, Minnesota

Family Medicine Physician – Float Pool – St. Cloud Area

Family Medicine 8.7 Work-LifeNo weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

Listed compensation

Salary range:  $260,000 - $500,000

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Full-Time · on-site
Call expectations
Not specified
Weekends
No weekends
Posted 1mo ago · Verified live

Job Description

Flexible assignments | 3 or 4-day work week | Practice variety

This position is eligible for hiring incentives to include sign-on bonus and relocation assistance!

Join CentraCare’s Family Medicine Float Pool and play a critical role in ensuring continuity of care across the CentraCare's central market. This position offers variety and flexibility, allowing physicians to support clinics during extended provider absences while practicing outpatient Family Medicine in a three or four-day workweek model across multiple locations.

Schedule

  • Full-time | 0.75–1.0 FTE | St. Cloud and surrounding CentraCare clinics
  • Day shifts | Weekdays | 3-4-day work week
  • Assignments typically deployed for 8–12+ weeks

Pay and Benefits

  • Salary range:  $260,000 - $500,000 per year
  • Pay may be determined by factors such as education, experience, skills, knowledge, location, and internal equity
  • Salary and salary range are based on a 1.0 FTE, reduced FTE will result in a prorated offer rate
  • May be eligible for additional pay through bonuses, or quality incentives
  • Benefits: Medical, dental, time off, retirement, employee discounts and more!

Qualifications

  • BE/BC in Family Medicine
  • Eligibility for Minnesota medical licensure
  • Previous experience in primary care
  • Flexibility and interest in practicing across multiple clinic locations
  • Comfort stepping into established patient panels and clinic workflows

Department Information

CentraCare’s new Family Medicine Float Pool will support outpatient clinics across the central market during provider leaves, transitions, and access needs.

Physicians will work within a well-organized deployment model that provides variety, schedule stability, and strong operational support while remaining part of a large, integrated health system focused on continuity, access, and high-quality patient care.

Clinics include

  • Albany
  • Becker
  • Big Lake
  • Clearwater
  • Cold Spring
  • Family Health Clinic (St. Cloud)
  • Northway (St. Cloud)
  • Sauk Crossing (St. Cloud)
  • Southway (St. Cloud)
  • St. Joseph

Our Location

CentraCare, a leading not-for-profit health system and one of the largest providers of rural care, serves patients across Central, West Central, and Southwestern Minnesota. It delivers nationally recognized care through 40+ medical and surgical specialties, innovative population health programs, and a collaborative physician–administration leadership model. St. Cloud Hospital, a 489-bed regional referral center and Level II trauma center, delivers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services with Magnet-designated nursing and expert support staff. Just 60 minutes from Minneapolis-St. Paul, the St.

Cloud region is a family-friendly mini-metro featuring excellent schools and four colleges, vibrant arts and theatre, abundant lakes and outdoor recreation, and year-round activities for all seasons.

About CentraCare https://www.centracare.com/about-us/

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CentraCare has made a commitment to diversity in its workforce. All individuals including, but not limited to, individuals with disabilities, are encouraged to apply. CentraCare is an EEO/AA employer.

Key Responsibilities

The physician will provide outpatient Family Medicine services across multiple clinic locations to ensure continuity of care during provider absences. They will step into established patient panels and maintain clinic workflows within a flexible, float pool deployment model.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Clinical WorkflowOutpatient Care

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Family Medicine Physician – Float Pool – St. Cloud Area at Centra Care a 8.7 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 5% in Family Medicine — ranked against 2,395 active Family Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

Family Medicine — Physician Career Context

In Minnesota, the Family Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$336k (26 salary observations; 50 listings), vs ~$269k nationally (461 salary observations; 1,470 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Family Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 60% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

Family Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is up 14.9% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Minnesota is 98.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$380k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $385k in an average-cost state. 63.4% of Minnesota clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Work-life snapshot

8.7/ 10
Listing-based score

Top 5% in Family Medicine

  • No weekends
  • No nights
  • On-site

Living in St. Cloud

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$252k
Typical market rent
$1,244/mo
Residents’ average commute
20 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
104.8
State income tax
Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Centra Care

Hospitals and Health Care
St. Cloud, MN
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Sign-on bonus
Relocation assistance
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Time off
Retirement plan
Employee discounts
Quality incentives