Pediatric Palliative and Complex Care Physician (M89489)

Pediatric Palliative and Complex Care Physician - M89489

Department of Pediatrics

Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU - Richmond, VA

Join CHOR at VCU’s Palliative and Complex Care teams—an expanding, collaborative pediatric program with dedicated faculty, APPs, nurse navigators, and a social worker. Serve diverse patients across inpatient and outpatient settings while teaching and advancing research.

Unit: School Of Medicine MBU

Department: Pediatrics

Mission or Goal of Unit: VCU’s Department of Pediatrics is dedicated to shaping the next generation of compassionate, skilled pediatricians—caring for every child as if they were our own while advancing the field through innovative, impactful research. Our home base is the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU in downtown Richmond, supported by a network of satellite locations and community clinics serving families across Central Virginia.

Chief Purpose of this Position in Support of Above Mission or Goal: The Complex Care section within the Division of General Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU is seeking a non?tenure eligible physician to join a dynamic, mission?driven team engaged in clinical care, teaching, and research. Our multidisciplinary group includes dedicated faculty, advanced practice providers, nurse navigators, and a social worker, all committed to delivering exceptional care. Providers serve patients in both the state?of?the?art inpatient tower and the downtown Children’s Pavilion, offering a diverse and rewarding clinical experience.

Responsibilities: 

• Teaching: Faculty member will have teaching responsibilities. Faculty member will provide teaching and mentorship to medical students, Residents, Chief Residents, and Fellows when applicable.
• Research: Faculty member will have working knowledge in research methods and be able to participate in clinical, translational, and outcomes research.
• Service: Faculty member will serve on departmental or School of Medicine level committees when appropriate, and engage in professional activities through journal review, conference presentations, etc.
• Clinical: Faculty member will serve as a pediatric complex care and palliative care physician for the Department of Pediatrics in the Section of Complex Care. The division provides clinical care to both inpatient and outpatient arenas as well as at the Transitional Care Unit at the Brook Road campus.
• Other: Faculty member will take on administrative duties associated with this role. 

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

• Board certified in Pediatrics and either Board certified or board eligible in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
• Experience with clinical care of patients
• Experience in an academic medical center
• Demonstrated experience working in and fostering an environment of respect, professionalism, and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and students from various backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a complex care clinic and/or caring for medically complex pediatric patients

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The Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Pediatrics is dedicated to providing comprehensive, compassionate, state-of-the-art pediatric health care, research and education at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU, a full-service children’s hospital within the VCU Medical Center. CHoR offers a robust continuum of pediatric services, research and education, and is the region’s only full-service children’s hospital. CHoR provides emergency, primary, secondary, advanced, tertiary and long-term care. CHoR has 11 locations across Central Virginia and provides more than 42 pediatric medical/surgical services.

There is energy and momentum around advancing children’s health in Richmond, and we have marked a new milestone. Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU recently opened a multi-story, high-tech ambulatory pavilion for pediatric services.  The new facility will meet the growing need for outpatient services for children in our community.

CHoR's outpatient pavilion is the largest, most advanced outpatient facility dedicated to children in the region. The new pavilion includes diagnostic and treatment services for children, bringing together the majority of outpatient pediatric services currently on the MCV campus to one location. It is designed to meet the unique health care needs of children, and to provide Richmond the most advanced and coordinated care possible:

The facility is a 640,000 square foot, multi-story building and includes a 7-story parking deck with more than 600 spaces.
The new pavilion houses 72 exam rooms arranged in clinic pods to optimize a multidisciplinary care model. Each pod includes 12 exam rooms, a treatment room, support space and a centralized clinical team.
The new pavilion features pediatric-dedicated imaging, surgical and endoscopy procedure rooms, as well as pediatric faculty offices.
The pavilion is designed with future expansion in mind. It can accommodate additional clinic pods and operating rooms, as demand for these services increases.

When we break ground on a new facility, it’s about more than bricks and mortar. It’s just like we tell our children— it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Over the past three years, Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU has increased pediatric faculty to more than 130 clinicians focused on 42 specialty areas and providing access to children’s health care from more than 11 locations throughout the region. It’s these dedicated physicians and an extensive network of pediatric-trained nurses, child-life specialists, therapists, social workers and ancillary medical staff, who will continue providing health care designed especially for children.

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