Job Description

Emergency Medicine - Physician at Sound Physicians - Chicago, IL - Sound Physicians summary:

A board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician with leadership experience who serves as a National Ambassador Medical Director traveling to partner hospitals nationwide. This role involves flexible assignments ranging from fully clinical to administrative leadership, focusing on enhancing emergency department performance, collaboration, and patient care quality. The position offers competitive compensation, travel support, and comprehensive benefits while fostering professional growth and impactful team leadership.

Join Sound’s Emergency Medicine National Ambassador Medical Director Travel Team

Sound Physicians Emergency Medicine Ambassador Team is looking for triple threat utility players with the experience and skills of an EM executive combined with outstanding clinical abilities. The goal of this position is to support Sound’s emergency medicine service line with talented individuals as we expand and develop. This person needs to be able to shift among three different types of assignments, including intense administrative focus, hybrid administrative/clinical, and fully clinically focused, depending on the needs of the service. Our team of Ambassadors is highly skilled, flexible, and adaptable change agents. We integrate into complex situations and make a positive impact to meet the needs of our patients, clinicians, and hospital partners.

People First at Sound

Local Team Collaboration:

• Our physicians are Emergency Medicine trained and board-certified. They bring many years of leadership and executive-level experience. Many of Sound’s Ambassador Leaders have been facility medical directors, regional medical directors, hospital CMOs, health system-level leaders, medical group leaders, and medical staff leaders in their previous work.
• Our team members live nationwide and travel to our hospital partner sites nationwide.
• We are passionate about teamwork, integrity, and delivering high-quality patient care.
• We are highly adaptable to different work environments, including varying program sizes and levels of sophistication.
• Our team has an excellent reputation as physician leaders with strong diagnostic and a calm and rational approach to problem-solving.

Qualifications:

• Board-certified/eligible in emergency medicine.
• 5 years of emergency medicine leadership experience.

Practice in the Heart of the Community

Scheduling:

• Emergency Medicine National Ambassador Leaders work various schedules depending on assignment. Flex Director and Full Clinical assignments take advantage of block scheduling. Full Administrative Focus requires more regular on-site presence.

Purpose-Driven Work with Local Impact

• Excellence in the care we deliver to our patients and communities.
• Leadership Support for our EM Teams at sites across the country.
• Build, manage, and develop highly collaborative Emergency Departments with our hospital partners.
• Develop team members to their potential.
• National Ambassadors Leaders have dual responsibilities of directing and overseeing the emergency department team’s performance and managing our hospital partner and stakeholder relationships and expectations.

Rewards and Benefits:

• Sound pays for our national ambassador’s airfare, lodging, and rental cars. We reimburse expenses like parking, mileage, travel day food, and rental car fuel.
• Sound’s licensing team will help manage the procurement and cover the cost of any state licenses needed to work at one of our hospital partner locations.
• Expected annual compensation ranges from $435k, depending on allowable clinical time. Flex Director and Fully Clinical shifts are paid at $325/hour.
• Shift lengths are usually 10 to 12 hours, accommodating different preferences and needs.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance, long- and short-term disability, 401k with match, paid medical malpractice and tail coverage, and annual CME allowance.

Keywords:

Emergency Medicine, Physician Leadership, Medical Director, Traveling Physician, Emergency Department Management, Clinical Care, Hospital Collaboration, Patient Care Quality, Board-Certified, Healthcare Executive

Job Tags

Full time, Temporary work, Local area, Flexible hours, Shift work,

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