Medical Staff Lead Clinician - MD

Virta Health is on a mission to transform type 2 diabetes and weight-loss care. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. Join us on our mission to reverse diabetes in 100 million people. 

Reporting into the Associate CMO, the Virta Medical Group is searching for a physician leader to lead and mentor a team of 8-10 physicians and nurse practitioners, while seeing a part-time panel of Virta patients. The goal of the Virta Medical Group is to provide exemplary clinical care to our members while partnering with our counterparts in the Virta Health Corporation.  This leader will manage the people and processes on their team to achieve the practice’s goal efficiently and effectively. The team leader does this by: 

• Providing quality oversight for medical care delivery

• Supporting effective growth of the medical staff and the professional development of the VMS members whom they lead

• Fostering effective collaboration with key departments

• Leading strategic clinical initiatives

Responsibilities

The physician in this role will lead by example, seeing a panel of Virta patients and helping the physicians and nurse practitioners on her/his team improve the quality of care they provide to Virta patients. Specific responsibilities include:

Quality Oversight for Medical Care Delivery

• Follow up and execute on improving workflows critical for safety and efficacy

• Monitoring of quality and safety 

• Monthly review of clinician quality and efficiency metrics with team members

• Clinical QA of team members (and others’) clinical performance

Growth and Development of team member

• Develop a highly functional team of clinicians, further preparing high performers for leadership roles, while working proactively to performance manage those not meeting expectations

• Manage clinicians on your team, with responsibilities to include:

  • Oversee onboarding of new physicians and NPs joining the team.

  • Regularly connect via 1:1 meetings with team members to discuss challenges, ideas for improvement, provide feedback

  • Regular virtual and occasional in-person team meetings to build cohesion and advance common projects

  • Review of quarterly cross-team feedback

  • Semiannual performance reviews

Foster Effective Collaboration

• Participate in regular reviews of clinical events

• Work collaboratively with other team members matrixed or directly reporting to their team, including RNs and other team members.

  • Responsible for keeping the other team members connected to the team and the Virta mission/company.

  • Biweekly review of intake quality and patient feedback as appropriate

  • Recruitment, interviewing, and onboarding of new team members

Lead Strategic Initiatives

• Lead strategic initiatives across Virta within a specific clinical program area.

• Virta Clinical Initiatives: A key component of the role is to lead clinical initiatives critical to the delivery of great patient care and the execution of the business. Leaders are expected to lead initiatives within the clinical team and then to collaborate across Virta in order to assure initiative success. 

Must-Haves

• MD or DO degree with at least one active state medical license.

• Board Certified in an ABMS specialty, such as endocrinology, internal medicine, emergency medicine, or family practice.

• 2+ years in a management role where you directly people-manage physicians or APPs, hiring them, firing them, writing performance reviews, etc. Physicians without direct people management experience will not be considered for this role.

• Experience managing clinical and business metrics, including quality, clinical outcomes, and productivity.

• Experience in a growth-stage organization or similar environment is preferred.

• Strong communication, collaboration, and team-building skills.

• Comfortable managing a panel of patients with diabetes, pre-diabetes, and obesity.

Values-driven culture

Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if:

• You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally

• You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same

• You prioritize positive impact over busy work

• You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience

• You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information

• You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma

• You take risks and rapidly iterate

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As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided.

Virta has a location based compensation structure. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. For this role, the compensation range is $201,536 - $231-650.  Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers. 

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