PHYSICIAN - 64907

Executive Service

PHYSICIAN Department of Health Community Health Services Chattanooga, TN Closing Date: 02/19/2025

Who We Are And What We Do

The Southeast Region of the Tennessee Department of Health provides women's health services, as well as primary care services, in the ten-county region surrounding Hamilton County.

How You Make a Difference In This Role

Protect, promote, and improve the health and prosperity of people in Tennessee by serving the uninsured in medically underserved counties in Southeast Tennessee.

Job Overview

Are you ready to leave the private sector and no longer worry about insurance, overhead costs, and quotas? Are you interested in public health and being a leader for innovative methods of care? The Tennessee Department of Health Southeast Region is looking for a physician to provide primary care services, as well as women's health services and Pediatrics, in rural county health departments surrounding Hamilton County. Clinics are staffed by both physicians and advanced practice nurses and serve the uninsured population.

Benefits

This position will be based at the Southeast Regional Office in Chattanooga but will work in surrounding county Health Departments. Travel reimbursement provided. The State of Tennessee offers great benefits including:

• Convenient working hours, Monday through Friday, 37.5 hours per week,
• 12 paid holidays,
• Potential Student Loan Repayment,
• Affordable insurance premiums including health, dental and vision,
• Retirement Plan, 401K and 457K plan options,
• Employee Discount Program,
• Generous Vacation and Sick Leave Package
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver direct patient care.
• Follow health department guidelines, protocols, and program recommendations.
• Be available to consult with other department staff.
• Provide chart review for APN charts as requested.
• Follow professional development directives from the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners, including having and maintaining a valid unrestricted medical license.
• Participate in county and regional based activities as requested by county and regional supervisors.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Valid and unrestricted Tennessee medical license.
  
  

Required Experience

• Residency training in either Family Medicine or General Internal Medicine.
  
  

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.