LTD Physician Advisor - Personnel - Lakewood - Days (Limited Appointment)

Who We Are

The below job posting is a limited appointment job opening with an expected duration of hours not to exceed 1000.

UCI Health is the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine, and the only academic health system based in Orange County. UCI Health is comprised of its main campus, UCI Medical Center, a 459-bed, acute care hospital in in Orange, Calif., four hospitals and affiliated physicians of the UCI Health Community Network in Orange and Los Angeles counties and ambulatory care centers across the region. Listed among America's Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for 23 consecutive years, UCI Medical Center provides tertiary and quaternary care and is home to Orange County's only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, high-risk perinatal/neonatal program and American College of Surgeons-verified Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center, gold level 1 geriatric emergency department and regional burn center. UCI Health serves a region of nearly 4 million people in Orange County, western Riverside County and southeast Los Angeles County.

To learn more about UCI Health, visit www.ucihealth.org.

Your Role on the Team

Position Summary:

Supporting one or more Community Network hospital for UCI Health, the Physician Advisor is a physician duly licensed to practice medicine in the State of California ('State') responsible for reviewing medical records specified by Hospital and communicating with members of Hospital's medical staff, managed care organizations and other third parties at Hospital's request with respect to the appropriate utilization of Hospital resources and related matters.

What It Takes to be Successful

Required Qualifications:

• Must demonstrate customer service skills appropriate to the job
• Minimum 3 years of clinical practice, preferably in Emergency Medicine
• M.D. or D.O. degree
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Board certification/eligibility in direct patient care specialty (Internal Medicine, hospitalist, Emergency Medicine, medical subspecialties, surgical specialties, etc.)
• Ability to maintain a work pace appropriate to the workload
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across the Health System

Preferred Qualifications:

• Leadership experience in an academic medical center environment
• Knowledge of University and Medical Center organizations, policies, procedures and forms

Total Rewards

We offer a wealth of benefits to make working at UCI even more rewarding. These benefits may include medical insurance, sick and vacation time, retirement savings plans, and access to a number of discounts and perks. Please utilize the links listed here to learn more about our compensation practices and benefits.