Pediatric Hospitalist/Newborn Nursery

Job description

Location Detail: St Vincents Medical Center (10427)
Shift Detail: 24 hours shifts
Bridgeport, CT – Pediatric Hospitalist/Newborn Nursery - Full-time
Join a collaborative, patient-centered team at Hartford HealthCare, where we support our physicians in their professional and work-life balance goals.
Location(s):
Hospital: St. Vincent’s Medical Center, 2800 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT 06606-4201
Position details:
• Full time, newborn nursery and hospital pediatric coverage
• Schedule:
• Six (6) weekday shifts and two (2) weekend shifts per four (4) week cycle
• There are thirteen (13) cycles per year
• Each shift is twenty-four (24) hours
• For weekday shifts, physician must be on-site at the hospital between 5:00PM - 10:00AM of each twenty four (24) hour shift and available via phone between 10:00AM – 5:00PM
• For weekend shifts, physician must be on-site at the hospital for the entire twenty-four (24) hour shift
• Hospital coverage includes rounding on newborns, attending c-sections (both scheduled and emergent), managing photo therapy, occasional pedi consults to E.D. or floors, and stabilization of newborns for transport
• Faculty opportunity with Quinnipiac University teaching med students
• Support from neonatologists 24/7
• No circumcisions
• Hospital averages over 1,000 deliveries annually

Location:
Located just minutes to New York City and two hours from Boston, we are in the heart of New England’s most stunning communities offering your family nationally acclaimed school systems, a choice to live at the shore, in vibrant urban areas, near a major university or in a Kiplinger “Top 10 Best City to Raise a Family” and Travel & Leisure’s “Coolest Suburb in America”.
At Hartford HealthCare, Physicians enjoy:
• Highly competitive compensation
• Robust benefits including a generous 401K match, CME and paid time off
• Loan repayment support
• Generous Paid-Time Off
• Reimbursement for CME, professional society membership, licensure, and malpractice
• Opportunity to teach and precept students

Qualifications
The ideal candidate will possess:
• A passion for providing patient-centered care to a pediatric patient population
• A willingness to work closely and collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team
• An unrestricted State of Connecticut Medical License (or eligible)
• BC/BE in Pediatrics

Contact Information:
Jennifer Straka, Physician Recruiter, Hartford HealthCare
Cell : 860-996-4441
Email : [email protected]