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Summit Healthcare Staffing
Ossining, New York

Pediatrician for Long-Term Care Facility

PediatricsFull-Time

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Job Description

Summit Healthcare Staffing is a healthcare staffing firm focused on connecting clinical professionals with meaningful opportunities across long-term care, nursing, home healthcare, and related care settings. The organization partners with healthcare teams to help ensure patients and residents receive consistent, high-quality care from experienced clinicians who can make an immediate impact.

This opportunity is suited to a pediatrician who is committed to caring for medically fragile children and wants to contribute in a highly collaborative clinical environment. In this role, you will play an important part in supporting pediatric residents with complex health needs while working closely with the care team to help maintain continuity, quality, and compassion in day-to-day care.

Responsibilities

  • Provide pediatric medical care for medically fragile children in a 122-bed long-term care facility.
  • Collaborate closely with nurse practitioners and registered nurses across a four-unit facility.
  • Support ongoing assessment, treatment planning, and care coordination for pediatric residents with complex health needs.
  • MD or DO degree.
  • Active state medical license in good standing.
  • Board certification or board eligibility in pediatrics.
  • Experience caring for medically complex pediatric patients in long-term care settings.
  • Experience collaborating with nurse practitioners, nurses, and interdisciplinary clinical teams.
  • Experience communicating with families, caregivers, and clinical staff in long-term pediatric care.
  • Eligible to work in the United States.
  • 3 years of experience working with critically ill children is a plus.
  • Benefits Package including health insurance.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an MD or DO degree and possess an active state medical license. Board certification or eligibility in pediatrics is required, along with experience in long-term care settings.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical assessmentInterdisciplinary collaborationPatient advocacyCommunicationMedical documentation

Pediatrics — Physician Career Context

In New York, the Pediatrics weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$217k (73 salary observations; 115 listings), vs ~$243k nationally (520 salary observations; 2,056 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Pediatrics listings this role was benchmarked against, 12% are remote, 70% have no call, 36% require no weekends.

Pediatrics by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedPediatrics median $255k (middle half $210k–$275k)13 comparable listings, Oct 2026
New York vs national$217k median in New York$243k nationally (−10%)73 state / 520 national salary observations
Cost of livingNew York index 107.9US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Pediatrics listings in New York45 active739 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 12% remote · 70% no call · 36% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Pediatrics pay trend+14.1% vs prior quarter—through Sep 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top Pediatrician Jobs

28 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

21 jobs · 19 employers
5
<$230k
4
$230k-270k
4
$270k-310k
7
$310k-350k
1
$390k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

20 jobs · 19 employers
401k / retirement match
90%
CME allowance
65%
Relocation assistance
40%
Sign-on bonus
25%
Loan repayment
25%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

Neonatology - Physician

CHOC Specialists · Orange, California

$260k-$390k
#2

Physician - Pediatrics

Neighborhood Healthcare · Riverside, California

$210k-$348k
#3

Pediatrician - Reliant Medical Group

$204k-$346k
#4

Physician- Outpatient Pediatrician

$285k-$332k
+ 26 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 5.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Pediatrics listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 734 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Ossining

Typical market rent
$2,967/mo
Residents’ average commute
36 min
State income tax
Up to 10.9%
Sources & methodology

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

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