Acute Care Pediatrician

Full-Time: 0.8–1.0 FTE

Part-Time: 0.4–0.6 FTE

Seasonal: Full-time hours available January–April

Northwest Crossing Clinic 

1pm-8pm

The Opportunity 

The COPA Acute Care Pediatrician is a clinical leader within the Patient-Centered Medical Home, partnering with children, families, and an interdisciplinary care team to provide exceptional right-fit care for kids at every milestone through relationship-centered, evidence-based pediatric care. Guided by the principles and best practices of the American Academy of Pediatrics and aligned with COPA’s mission, vision, values, policies, and procedures, the Acute Care Pediatrician focuses on the timely evaluation and management of acute illness and injury in the primary care setting, bringing and maintaining pediatric acute care skill sets within COPA while supporting each child’s relationship with their medical home.

Beyond caring for individual patients, the Acute Care Pediatrician plays an integral role in improving the health of children throughout our community. By expanding timely access to acute care and helping families receive the right care in the right setting, and through collaboration, quality improvement, population health initiatives, advocacy, and leadership, the Acute Care Pediatrician helps ensure that every child has the opportunity to achieve their healthiest potential. 

The COPA Acute Care Pediatrician exemplifies professionalism, teamwork, lifelong learning, and clinical excellence while fostering trusted, long-term relationships that strengthen children, families, and the health of our community.

The Company

Central Oregon Pediatric Associates (COPA) has been caring for kids and families in Central Oregon for over 50 years, building lifelong relationships and helping children thrive from newborns to teens. Our mission is to provide exceptional, right-fit care for kids at every age and stage, and our vision is to improve the health of all kids in our community. We do this in a welcoming, inclusive environment where collaboration, openness, play and accountability are part of how we care, not just what we do. At COPA, you’ll work alongside people who value kindness, teamwork, and earning families’ trust every single day. COPA is committed to providing equitable, compassionate care that is welcoming and accessible to all children and families, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, disability, socioeconomic status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

What you'll do

• Provide timely evaluation and management of acute illness and injury for children from birth through adolescence, including same-day and after-hours visits.
• Perform pediatric acute care procedures, including nebulized medication administration, laceration repair (suturing), splinting, foreign body removal, and incision and drainage.
• Recognize, stabilize, and begin management of seriously ill or injured children, coordinating safe and timely transfer to emergency or inpatient care when needed.
• Develop differential diagnoses and evidence-based treatment plans, ordering and interpreting laboratory and diagnostic studies and prescribing medications and other therapies.
• Screen for and manage behavioral, developmental, and mental health concerns, including acute mental health presentations, in collaboration with our behavioral health team.
• Connect acute visits back to each child's medical home through clear follow-up and timely communication with the child's primary pediatric provider.
• Serve as a clinical leader on an interdisciplinary care team that includes nurses, medical assistants, behavioral health consultants, care coordinators, and community health workers.
• Provide educational updates to clinical teams on acute care topics and help develop COPA's acute and urgent care clinical practice guidelines.
• Contribute to quality improvement and to the mentorship of students, trainees, and new providers.

Schedule and location

• Based primarily at our Northwest Crossing clinic in Bend, covering other COPA sites as needed.
• Rotating evening, weekend, and holiday acute care coverage with the COPA provider team.
• No primary care panel, newborn rounding, or hospital call.

Benefits

• 401k and Profit sharing
• HSA, HRA and FSA Enrollment
• Medical, Life, Vision and Dental Insurance
• Supplemental insurance Options
• Pediatric Care Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Working with Amazing Kids

 Education and Certification:

• Graduate of a four-year, accredited US medical school or the equivalent, has completed an accredited Pediatric or Emergency Medicine Residency program, and has current board certification. New residency graduates pending board certification also welcome.
• Licensure/certification: Board eligible/certified in pediatrics or emergency medicine. Unrestricted license to practice medicine in Oregon by the start date.
• Unrestricted Federal DEA number registered in Oregon.
• Unrestricted ability to participate in Medicaid, or other federal or state governmental health care programs.
• NRP and PALS certification (COPA can facilitate these certifications for anyone who does not yet have them).

Experience: 

• 2+ years of clinical experience in pediatric primary care or a pediatric specialty      required (residency experience can apply).
• 2+ years of pediatric urgent care or emergency care preferred.
• Epic EMR experience preferred.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English a plus.

Physical Requirements: 

• Use of clear and audible speaking voice and the ability to hear normal speech level in person, over the telephone or through use of other required technology. Sitting or standing for long periods of time. Frequent repetitive motion includes computer keyboard use, reaching with hands and arms, and walking. Occasional lifting and or moving up to 30 pounds and on rare occasion up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include viewing computer monitor for long periods of time, close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. 
• Must be able to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) as required.
• Manual dexterity sufficient to perform procedures such as laceration repair and splinting, and the ability to respond quickly to medical emergencies.

Working Conditions: 

• Work inside in a general medical office setting with ergonomically configured equipment. 
• The employee is subject to hazards including a variety of physical conditions such as proximity to mechanical parts and chemicals including odors. The employee has been identified as having the likelihood of occupational exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials, therefore are included in the OSHA Exposure Control Plan with specification for preventing contact with the above materials.
• Travel between COPA clinics and business office as required.
• Travel between COPA clinics, business office, and lab as required

*This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and is not an all-inclusive list of duties, responsibilities, or expectations. Responsibilities may change as business needs evolve.