Family Medicine Physician

Compassion. It’s the starting point for health care providers like you and it’s what drives us every day as we put our exceptional skills together with a real feeling of caring for others. This is a place where your impact goes beyond providing care one patient at a time. Because here, every day, you’re also providing leadership and contributing in ways that can affect millions for years to come. Ready for a new path? Learn more, and start doing your life’s best work.SM

Optum’s Pacific West region is redefining health care with a focus on health equity, affordability, quality, and convenience. From California to Oregon and Washington, we are focused on helping more than 2.5 million patients live healthier lives and helping the health system work better for everyone. At Optum Pacific West, we care. We care for our team members, our patients, and our communities. Join our culture of caring and make a positive and lasting impact on health care for millions.

Life Changing Work 

Optum is a physician-led, close-knit team that has been long-respected in Southern California. We are passionate about patients. We are leading the state of California toward better healthcare practices. And we are looking for amazing doctors like you! 

As part of our continued growth, we are recruiting for Full-Time Family Medicine Physician to join our Primary team in Torrance community. 

Position Details:

• Clinic Locations: Torrance, CA 
• Outpatient: Primary Care including office consults, annual visits, follow up appointments and in office procedures. 
• Appointment Schedule: Monday – Friday; 40 / 20 minutes for consults and follow up appointments 
• Average Patients per day: 20 patients 
• Comfortable seeing pediatric to geriatric aged patients; general in office procedures 
• Medical Assistant to support Physician; rooming patients, vitals, RX refills, follow up appointments. 

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications: 

• Unrestricted CA Physician License 
• Current CA DEA certificate required prior to start date 
• BE/BC Family Medicine 
• 1+ years post residency experience preferred 
• Welcome Family Medicine New Grads 
• Current BLS, ACLS certification 
• EMR Proficient 
• Excellent communication skills and time management 
• Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential requirement of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation 

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package including medical malpractice coverage and tail policy, generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and holidays, CME time and dollars, medical, dental and vision benefits, company paid life insurance, bonus potential. 

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

At Optum we’ve found that putting clinicians at the center of care is the best way to improve lives.

Here you’ll be a part of an organization in the Los Angeles and Orange County area that has been committed to developing innovative models of healthcare delivery that improve our patients' quality of life while containing healthcare costs since 1992.  You’ll join a community that brings the benefits of coordinated care to more than 600,000 patients in California who represent the diversity of cultures, socioeconomic groups, ages, and health statuses in the communities we serve. As part of Optum, your network will expand nationwide – to nearly every state. You’ll have endless opportunities to grow your career, explore your evolving interests in medicine or relocate if it suits your lifestyle or family needs. As you grow, we can meet you where you are in any phase of your career.

At Optum, being part of something bigger allows us to provide physician-led care locally while transforming healthcare nationally. We’ll provide you with the technology and support to help you focus on patient outcomes instead of administrative duties. We bring deep analytical capabilities and health information system technology to our clinical teams in ways that drive better decision-making at every point along the care continuum. This thriving, expanding enterprise can be a career home where you can be your best every day. As a member of this team, you'll be helping improve the lives of millions of patients.