Family Medicine Physician

Salud Para La Gente

Purpose Meets the Pacific Coast | FQHC Family Medicine Physician

Watsonville, CA

$278K–$313K

full-time

Outpatient

Job Highlights

• Loan Repayment or Assistance Offered
• Flexible Schedule
• Opportunity to Give Back to an Underserved Community

Salud Para La Gente is a mission-driven FQHC providing comprehensive primary care to diverse communities across California’s Monterey Bay region.

We are seeking a compassionate Family Medicine Physician to deliver high-quality, community-centered care as part of a collaborative clinical team.

Make an impact while enjoying life on California’s beautiful Central Coast.

Glance at the Facts:

• Flexible schedules with 4 day work week
• FT/PT options
• Opportunity to care for a full spectrum family practice panel, including dedicated pediatrics time, if desired
• See 20 patients per day
• True primary care medical home with dental, optometry, behavioral health on site as well as robust community health services department
• Healthy Steps site, parent educators on staff, lactation on site
• Diabetic nurse educator on site and MAT program

Direct Patient Care:

• Build and manage a patient panel, providing comprehensive, high-quality primary care.
• Evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients using established clinical guidelines.
• Perform procedures within documented training and clinical privileges.
• Collaborate across Salud’s medical, behavioral health, dental, and community health services to coordinate whole-person care.
• Refer patients to specialists when clinically appropriate.
• Respond appropriately to urgent and life-threatening situations.
• Maintain timely, accurate, and complete documentation in the electronic health record.
• Partner with scheduling and management teams to meet productivity standards.

Professional Conduct:

• Adhere to clinic communication guidelines and expectations with internal and external customers including co-workers, patients, and external partners.
• Communicate respectfully and effectively with people of different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds and lifestyles
• Demonstrate professional and productive collaboration with healthcare team
• May assist with recruitment of physicians/advanced practice clinicians
• May form liaisons with appropriate professional societies, educational institutions and community organizations to enhance clinic ability to deliver medical care to target population.
• Adhere to departmental policies, procedures and objectives, ongoing quality improvement efforts and safety, environmental and infection control standards
• Maintain patient confidentiality and comply with all federal and state patient confidentiality laws
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Valid California Physician's License
• Maintains an updated CPR certificate, valid California driver's license, and valid DEA license; submits copies of renewed licenses and certificates to Human Resources.
• Board Certified or Board Qualified in Family Medicine, preferred.
• Ability to obtain/maintain hospital admitting privileges at local hospital.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Fluent Spanish/English.
• Bi-cultural Spanish/English

Salud is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Salud is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact the Salud Human Resources Department.

Compensation Details

$278K–$313K

Benefit package: available to all regular Salud employees working 24+ hours per week. Part-time employees may receive some benefits on a pro-rated basis.

• Employer paid Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance Plans for employee
• Relocation reimbursement of up to $20,000.00
• Paid Time Off (PTO): starting at 19 days per year
• Paid Holidays: 13.5 days per year
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer contribution
• 457(b) deferred compensation plan
• Voluntary Long-Term Disability
• Continuing Medical Education (CME) Reimbursement up to $2,500 and 40 hours per fiscal year

Posted August 28, 2026