What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pediatrician for Long-Term Care Facility position at Summit Healthcare Staffing?
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.