Physician - Pediatrics for Primary Care Clinic
Listed compensation
$280K–$300K /yr
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
Ask the employer about time off.
Job Description
Community Health Centers of America is hiring for an MD/DO Pediatrician to work in our family practice clinics in Mariposa, CA. Willing to supervise NP/PAs. You will be responsible for diagnosing and treating patients in the clinic setting.
Community Health Centers of America is a premier multi-specialty group focused on improving the health of the community through excellence in clinical care. Our goal is to provide better care to the patient with a collaborative, supportive, respectful, and productive work environment for its healthcare professionals.
Sign-On Bonus!
Job Description
- Helps patients by evaluating medical conditions.
- Develops and implements treatment plans, including prescriptions.
- Monitors and evaluates treatment results.
- Evaluates patients by interviewing patient, family, and other persons; conducting physical examinations; observing behaviors; reviewing medical history and related documents; selecting, administering, and ordering laboratory tests and evaluating results.
- Develops treatment plans by determining nature and extent of medical conditions.
Maintains interdisciplinary treatment by reviewing treatment plans and progress, and consulting and collaborating with primary care physicians, mental health therapists, nurses, and other health care providers.
Assures quality and safe service for patients and staff by enforcing policies, procedures, standards, rules, Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations requirements, and legal regulations; participating in utilization reviews; and remaining available for emergency consultations.
Maintains historical records by documenting symptoms, medications, and treatment events and writing summaries.
Updates job knowledge by participating in continuing medical educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Job Qualifications
- Completion of residency
- Valid state medical license as MD or DO
- Valid DEA certificate
- 3 years’ experience working as a Physician
- Current BLS and/or ACLS
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Critical thinking
- Active listening
- Social perceptiveness
- Our healthcare professionals enjoy competitive benefits, including:
- Highly competitive salaries with benefits, a 401(k) plan, and CME allowance
- Sign-On Bonus!
- Manageable work schedules, providers are not required to work evenings or weekends
- Some flexibility with schedules - great for providers with families/other responsibilities
- Night/Weekend call coverage!
- Opportunity to work with a diverse range of professionals
- A professionally challenging environment with a mix of disease acuity
- A career with administrative freedom - appropriate support staff is supplied
Access to charting system that has been designed for quick and easy billing. Dictation available (including, but not limited to Dragon).
We are looking for skilled, self-motivated, and enthusiastic Providers. If you are interested, please submit your resume.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Salary: $280,000.00 - $300,000.00 per year, depending on experience
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Loan forgiveness
- Malpractice insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Relocation assistance
- Visa sponsorship
- Vision insurance
License/Certification
- California MD/DO license (Required)
- Work Location: In person
Schedule: Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No nights
- No weekends
Requirements
Position Requirements
- Must possess a degree in medicine and a valid license from the California Medical Board.
- Experience: 3-5 years of related experience preferred; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Licenses/Certifications: Appropriate certifications and/or licensures
- Current BLS/ACLS required
- Current DEA required
- In depth knowledge of legal medical guidelines and medicine best practices
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Active listening and active learning
- Flexibility to work with a variety of people, differing in ages, personalities, and backgrounds
- Time management skills to be able to see a high number of patients
- Interpersonal skills, compassion, and empathy to build positive relationships with patients and colleagues
- Critical thinking
- Social perceptiveness
- Complex problem solving
- Respect patient confidentiality
Key Responsibilities
The physician will diagnose and treat pediatric patients in a clinic setting, including developing treatment plans and ordering laboratory tests. They will also collaborate with other healthcare providers and maintain accurate medical records.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physician - Pediatrics for Primary Care Clinic at Community Health Centers of America a 6.8 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Pediatrics — ranked against 733 active Pediatrics listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.
Pediatrics — Physician Career Context
Community Health Centers of America holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 74/100, 19 active listings.
In California, the Pediatrics weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$264k (97 salary observations; 237 listings), vs ~$242k nationally (500 salary observations; 1,997 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, 2% are remote, 62% have no call, 52% require no weekends.
Pediatrics pay on WeekdayDoc is up 14.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$290k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $262k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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