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Physician - Primary Care and Chair of Primary Care Innovation

Job in Cottleville, Missouri, 63338, USA
Listing for: St. Luke's Hospital
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-13
Job specializations:
  • Nursing
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 250000 - 300000 USD Yearly USD 250000.00 300000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Cottleville

Position Summary

The Chair of Care Team Innovation in Primary Care is responsible for providing strategic direction and clinical leadership with a focused mandate to strengthen and transform primary care across the organization. This role emphasizes mentoring and developing newly recruited and early‑career physicians while also serving as a system‑wide clinical leader who champions adoption of evidence‑based best practices across all primary care providers, supporting ongoing practice optimization, consistency, and continuous professional growth.

The Clinical Executive partners closely with physician leaders, advanced practice providers (APPs), and operational teams to advance collaborative, team‑based care models that fully integrate nurse practitioners and physician assistants, enhance patient access, and optimize panel management. The role also plays a key leadership function in advancing data‑driven quality improvement, population health performance, and alignment with value‑based care objectives across the primary care service line.

Principal

Duties and Responsibilities Organizational Leadership
  • Establishes strategic vision and priorities for primary care transformation, emphasizing collaborative, team‑based care.
  • Serves as a senior clinical mentor to newly recruited and early‑career primary care physicians and provides peer leadership and coaching to established physicians to support ongoing practice excellence.
  • Leads efforts to expand and strengthen collaborative practice arrangements with nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
  • Facilitates in‑person and virtual collaborative forums, training sessions, and provider coaching to accelerate adoption of leading practices.
  • Partners with physician and operational leadership to enhance patient access, panel management, and care team optimization.
  • Supports recruitment efforts, ensuring alignment with organizational values and expectations for collaborative practice.
  • Promotes a culture of patient‑centered, team‑based care and organizational alignment.
  • Performs other duties as requested or required.
Performance Improvement, Data & Population Health
  • Champions use of data and analytics to improve population health outcomes and guide clinical decision‑making.
  • Partners with providers to leverage performance data to improve access, panel management, and care delivery.
  • Utilizes data to identify variation, reduce inequities, and strengthen chronic disease and preventive‑care performance.
  • Establishes key performance indicators related to access, panel size, quality, and patient experience.
  • Monitors provider and practice performance and delivers actionable insights and coaching.
  • Leads clinical engagement to support success under value‑based and risk‑based models.
Quality & Compliance
  • Promotes high‑quality primary care through monitoring and evaluating care processes and outcomes.
  • Ensures alignment of care delivery with value‑based and risk‑based care models, including accountability for quality, safety, access, patient experience, utilization, and cost outcomes.
  • Drives adoption of evidence‑based practices and standardized care pathways.
  • Engages physicians in understanding performance under population health and payer contracts.
  • Provides leadership for value‑based programs impacting primary care.
  • Supports improvement in total cost of care, utilization, quality, equity, and patient experience.
Self
  • Serves as a visible leader and role model for collaborative, team‑based care and continuous improvement.
  • Maintains current knowledge of primary care innovation, workforce trends, and care delivery transformation.
Clinical
  • Maintains clinical FTE status with remaining FTE status administrative.
  • Collaborates with APPs in clinical location(s).
  • Maintains board certification in…
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