Transitional/Overflow Primary Care - Physician
Listed compensation
$325k–$360k
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
Carle Health is seeking an additional BE/BC Family Medicine Physician to join our Windsor Primary Care Department in Urbana, Illinois.
Opportunity Details
This position is a hybrid role, with 0.5 FTE dedicated to providing primary care coverage and 0.5 FTE inbasket management.
The in-office primary care responsibilities include delivering acute care services, conducting follow-up appointments for hospitalized patients, and ensuring continuity of care until patients are able to see their primary care providers. Your office location will be at the Windsor Primary Care building in Urbana, IL.
The inbox management duties involve overseeing provider inboxes for multiple primary care clinics when providers are unavailable due to leave, vacation, or continuing medical education.
This is an innovative and unique primary care role designed to improve patient access, more efficiently manage primary care workloads and reduce primary care provider burnout.
Schedule will be M-F 8a-5p in person at the Windsor location. Your schedule will be determined based on primary care access needs.
You would join a team of dedicated and collaborative team of providers and experienced support staff in our clinic. You will also be able to consult with specialists across the organization to effectively care for patients.
Rotate in a shared-on call group with the Windsor Primary Care providers via phone.
Be part of a strong, stable, financially sound, and innovative healthcare system
Excellent benefits package: health/dental/life insurance, 403-B plan with employer match, LTD, relocation allowance, CME allowance, and paid malpractice insurance with tail insurance coverage
About Our Community
Globally connected, innovative and culturally rich, Champaign-Urbana is centrally located to Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis and is home to one of the world's great public research universities - the Big Ten University of Illinois. With ease of transportation, excellent schools and affordable housing options, our community features the friendliness and advantages of a smaller town while offering the dining, arts, sports, and entertainment options found in a much larger city.
About Us
Find it here. Discover the job, the career, the purpose you were meant for. At Carle Health, we're committed to fostering a workplace where every team member feels valued, respected and empowered, where passion and purpose come together to positively impact the lives of our patients and our communities.
Find it all at Carle Health. Our nearly 17,000 team members and providers work together to support patient care across central and southeastern Illinois. We’ve grown to include eight, award-winning hospitals and a multispecialty provider group with more than 1,500 doctors and advanced practice providers.
We’re developing the next generation of providers and healthcare professionals through Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the world’s first engineering-based medical school, and Methodist College.
Carle BroMenn Medical Center, Carle Foundation Hospital, Carle Health Methodist Hospital, Carle Health Proctor Hospital, Carle Health Pekin Hospital, and Carle Hoopeston Regional Health Center hold Magnet® designations, the nation’s highest honor for nursing care.
We offer opportunities in several communities throughout central Illinois with potential for growth and life-long careers at Carle Health.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
Carle Health participates in E-Verify and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. | For more information: human.resources@carle.com.
Compensation and Benefits
The compensation range for this position is $325,000 - $360,000. This represents a good faith minimum and maximum range for the role at the time of posting by Carle Health.
The actual compensation offered a candidate will be dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, qualifications, location, training, licenses, shifts worked and compensation model. Carle Health offers a comprehensive benefits package for team members and providers. To learn more visit careers.carlehealth.org/benefits
Key Responsibilities
The physician will provide primary care coverage and manage provider inboxes for multiple clinics to ensure continuity of care. Responsibilities include delivering acute care, conducting follow-up appointments, and participating in a shared on-call rotation.
Requirements
Candidates must be Board Eligible or Board Certified in Family Medicine. The role requires the ability to work in-person at the Windsor Primary Care facility in Urbana, Illinois.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Family Medicine — Physician Career Context
In Illinois, the Family Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$271k (113 salary observations; 242 listings), vs ~$264k nationally (1,901 salary observations; 6,463 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
The cost-of-living index for Illinois is 100.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$343k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $343k in an average-cost state. 62.6% of Illinois clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Of the 50 active Family Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 54% have no call, 66% require no weekends.
Family Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Transitional/Overflow Primary Care - Physician at Carle Health a 6.5 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Family Medicine — ranked against 2,560 active Family Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc.
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- Includes weekends
Living in Urbana
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $220k≈ 0.7× annual pay
- Typical market rent
- $1,232/mo≈ 5% of gross pay
- Residents’ average commute
- 14 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 92.7
- State income tax
- Up to 5%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Champaign-Urbana, IL metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.