FAMILY MEDICINE PHYSICIAN - MEDICAL LEAD

Description

Lead Care. Shape Strategy. Make an Impact.

InterCommunity Health Care is seeking a board-certified physician leader to serve as Medical Lead within a mission-driven, integrated Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). This role offers the opportunity to provide clinical leadership while continuing meaningful patient care across adult and pediatric primary care, behavioral health, and addiction services.

The Medical Lead is a key member of InterCommunity’s Senior Leadership Team and plays a central role in advancing clinical excellence, provider engagement, and high-quality, patient-centered care across the organization.

About InterCommunity

InterCommunity is a 2025 Healthcare Top Workplace—voted by staff as a Top Workplace for 12  years. As an FQHC Look-Alike, we are committed to accessible, compassionate care for all, regardless of ability to pay.

We operate community health centers in:

• East Hartford

• Hartford

• South Windsor

Our Addiction Services Division offers a full continuum of care, including integrated primary care, behavioral health, outpatient and residential services, and community-based supports.

The Role:

The  Medical Lead for family medicine and pediatrics provides clinical leadership for primary care services across the lifespan from infancy to gerontology. This role provides direct high-quality health care, patient-centered care, by guiding clinical practice standards, supporting interdisciplinary teamwork, and promoting evidence-based approaches to prevention, chronic disease management and pediatric wellness. The Medical Lead serves as a key clinical resource for pediatric providers and staff. The Medical Lead focuses on mentorship, quality improvement, and operational efficiency at the clinic level and bridges frontline providers and executive leadership.

The Medical Lead directly supports and provides clinical supervision to school-based health center providers, and primary care providers including performing chart audits, leading didactic trainings, and clinical consultation which ensures real-time provider engagement, quality patient care, and sustainable workflows.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides high quality, person-centered pediatrics and primary care services including timely and accurate documentation. Maintain a monthly production standard at 75% of standard production for an FT provider.
• Provides clinical/medical oversight and clinical supervision to pediatric/school-based health center providers, primary care providers (physicians and APRNs), offering guidance, performance support, credentialing/privileging assessments, and real-time decision support to providers. May act as the collaborating physician as needed for primary care APRNs.
• Lead primary care provider onboarding, mentorship (including clinical supervision and case consultation), ongoing professional development, education and training. 
• Provides pediatric consultation on complex cases.
• Develops and implements QA and/or QI process improvement initiatives including reviewing treatment plans, clinical records, diagnoses, and client discharge plans for adherence to policies and/or Joint Commission, HRSA, PCMH, DPH, DMHAS, and other standards.
• Foster a collaborative, supportive, and whole-person care culture through clinical leadership and multidisciplinary team collaboration. Acts as a co-leader in the multidisciplinary, and Peer Review Committee.
• Conducts and/or participates in meetings on clinical and administrative policy, quality assurance, safety, medical/clinical programs.
• Works collaboratively with clinical leadership to collect and report core data metrics for improved health outcomes.
• Conduct chart reviews, audits, and provider evaluations to ensure adherence to best practices for school-based health centers and primary care providers.
• Performs related duties as required.

Why Join InterCommunity?

• Leadership role with real influence and organizational voice

• Mission-driven work with measurable community impact

• Collaborative, supportive executive team

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits

• Commitment to work-life balance and physician well-being

AMAZING Benefits!

At Intercommunity, we believe our benefits should make a difference to you, to your family and to the life you lead outside of work. Benefits are more valuable than ever before and are a significant part of our total compensation package. InterCommunity offers a choice of medical plan options so you can choose the plan that best meets your needs and those of your family.  All benefit- eligible employees of InterCommunity are eligible for Medical, Dental, Voluntary Vision, Group Life, Supplemental Life, Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. (A benefit -eligible employee is one who is schedule to work a minimum of 30 hours per week.). In addition, all employees may contribute to our 401k and those who meet eligibility and service requirements will receive the company contribution. Benefits are effective on the first day of the month following date of hire.

Benefits:

• Work Life-Balance-Flexibility, generous Paid PTO, and paid holidays.
• Health & Dental insurance- with flexible contribution options to include 2 HDHP w/ HSA contribution at no cost premium or non-HDHP at a minimal cost  to employees.
• Voluntary vision.
• STD, LTD & Disability coverage - employer paid.
• Basic Life & AD&D employer paid.
• Supplemental  Life Insurance available.
• 401(k)  with 3% employer match and 3% employer give after 12 months and 1,000      hours worked.
• Career advancement opportunities.  

Requirements

Considerable knowledge of methods and principles of medicine including assessment and care across the life spectrum;  considerable knowledge of recent developments in field of internal medicine, family medicine, Pediatrics, psychiatry, and  substance abuse including treatment models, best practices, and regulations related to FQHC regulations and operations; considerable interpersonal skills; considerable oral, written, and computer communication skills (experience with EPIC strongly preferred); considerable ability to examine for, diagnose, assess and treat clients with multiple co-occurring illnesses; ability to develop a collaborative group practice environment with other members of the senior leadership team as well as psychiatrists, physicians APRN’s, and members of interdisciplinary teams; ability to analyze and interpret laboratory reports and other medical and/or psychological reports and findings; administrative/ supervisory ability.

Education &/or Experience:

Board certified in Family Medicine, Pediatrics, or Internal Medicine-pediatrics (Med-Peds). A minimum of (5) years of clinical experience in an outpatient primary care setting with specialty in pediatric medicine. Three (3) years' experience in clinical leadership at a community health center, public health, or medical program. Knowledge of FQHC and PCMH