By Jo-Ann Toldt, CPC-PRC, TeamHealth Senior Clinical Recruiter, Special Operations Teams

Our Special Operations (Ops) Team is an elite team of highly trained physicians who are adaptable, self-reliant, emotionally intelligent and able to function in all environments. While the team provides integral emergency medicine care throughout the United States, physicians select a region in which to practice.

The Special Ops team provides physicians with a great work-life balance. Do you ever feel like you’re working back-to-back shifts and you really need a few days off to enjoy your other interests or tackle a long-overdue personal project? Physicians on our team enjoy working blocked shifts where they can block time off their schedules for personal time. The schedule and lifestyle are a huge benefit to team members, and the premium compensation helps to pay down student loans or finance those items on your bucket list!

Although Special Ops physicians travel, receive excellent compensation and have blocked time off, this elite team is not a locum tenens team. As a permanent physician on the Special Ops team, there is no worry whether there will be a next assignment or how many hours will be available.

A Special Ops physician experiences various emergency medicine practices all within the same company, and those physicians who have an interest in leadership can attend TeamHealth’s leadership development courses. In fact, many Special Ops physicians have had the opportunity to showcase their leadership talent serving as interim medical directors.

As your career develops and life happens, it is reassuring to know you have opportunities available nationwide with a company you know and trust. To find out how you can become a Special Ops physician, contact one of our recruiters at physicianjobs@teamhealth.com so you can live where you want, and practice where you’re needed.

Started by physicians, led by physicians. Join a team that encourages your input and helps you grow, every shift, every day. We truly believe clinicians are at the heart of TeamHealth—the culture, the community, the company as a whole. Here, you have the opportunity to be a part of something large, connected, and truly impactful. We care about improving healthcare, not only for our own patients, but across the country. At TeamHealth, we are committed to providing the best place for patients to receive care and clinicians to practice medicine.

Purpose

At TeamHealth, our purpose is to perfect the practice of medicine, every day, in everything we do.

We are proud to be the leading physician practice in the U.S., driven by our commitment to quality and safety and supported by our world-class operating team. To improve the experience of our physicians and advanced practice clinicians, we empower clinicians to act on what they believe is right, free clinicians from distractions so they can focus on patient care, invest in learning and development to promote growth in the clinical field and foster an environment where continuous improvement is a shared priority.

Leadership Philosophy

TeamHealth’s leadership team is comprised of seasoned professionals with significant healthcare experience. Throughout our organization, we partner physicians with business professionals. This paired leadership philosophy has contributed to our growth and success while ensuring a physician-friendly environment that’s committed to advancing patient care.

Why TeamHealth? Practice Options. Career Growth. Continuing Education. Risk Management. Administrative Support. Flexible Scheduling. Personal Wellness. Commitment to Safety. Networking with Respected Peers. The list goes on.

Visit our Why TeamHealth site to view available job opportunities and find out more about how TeamHealth can help enhance your patient care.

By Rohit Uppal, MD, MBA, Chief Clinical Officer, Hospitalist Services

For TeamHealth leaders, recent weeks have been a time of intense focus on the issues of leadership development and clinician engagement. We invest considerable resources into leadership development, and clinician engagement is one of our top strategic priorities and is always an area of focus. We are just completing our clinician engagement and work/life balance survey, and within the span of a few weeks, we gathered our leaders for the National Medical Leaders Conference (NMLC) in Nashville, Tennessee, and completed sessions of our Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) and Coach Development Academy (CDA) courses in Knoxville, Tennessee.

I chose to join and remain with TeamHealth largely because of the energy and resources that our organization invests in leadership development and clinician engagement. I am proud to be part of this organization, and I place great value on these two areas. During the CDA course, I spoke on leadership development and clinician engagement, and current research offers objective evidence connecting leadership, clinician engagement and patient outcomes.

The impact of clinician engagement is well documented. Research has consistently indicated that as clinician engagement or satisfaction increases, there is a correlation with improved patient safety, clinical quality and patient experience. This is all consistent with the TeamHealth philosophy: we believe better experiences for physicians lead to better outcomes—for patients, partners and physicians alike.

While we have established that improved clinician engagement has a significant impact, the research on how we achieve engagement has been primitive until recently. There is emerging evidence demonstrating what many of us have intuitively known: leadership is a key enabler for improving clinician engagement. For a great example of this research, look at this study from the Mayo Clinic. The bottom line is that the things our leaders say and do have a tremendous impact. High-performing leaders improve clinician engagement, and clinician engagement leads to better outcomes for our patients.

In the non-clinical realm, the impact of an immediate supervisor on employee satisfaction is well established. I think that in the clinical realm this is amplified due to the emotional weight and complexity of the work, growing financial pressures within our healthcare institutions and disruptive changes we are experiencing in healthcare. Achieving clinician engagement requires a local leader who understands both the daily realities of clinical work and the operational and financial realities of our practices. Clinician engagement requires a servant leader who can develop trusting relationships with his/her clinicians, create a positive culture and manage change. Of course, this is challenging work, and none of this is taught in medical school. We are fortunate that our organization has recognized the need for identifying and developing clinical leaders and providing them the tools and training needed to succeed in these challenging roles. Not only that, our FMD2B course enables us to identify potential physician leaders and prepare them for future leadership roles.

Our longstanding focus on leadership and clinician engagement is essential to supporting our future success. If you are a leader, thank you for the hard work you do and be sure to participate in the leadership development programs above. If you support a leader, please know how valuable a role you play in enabling the success of our leaders. Your work makes a significant impact. If you are thinking of becoming a leader, please make that clear to your leadership team and know that you are in the right organization.

Lead a team focused on delivering excellent patient care. Discover how TeamHealth  supports you and offers growth opportunities throughout the organization.