Medical Collaborating Physician
Title: Collaborating Medical Physician
Southwest Coalition, Inc., encompassing the Guiding Star Southwest LLC, is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Medical Collaborating Physician to volunteer their expertise in our mission to extend life-affirming medical care and trauma-informed services for women in the Borderland areas of El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Juarez, Mexico. As an affiliate of the national Guiding Star Project, we are committed to empowering women through education, healthcare solutions, and community support, aligning with Catholic and Biblical teaching. The ideal candidate is a seasoned medical professional with a servant’s heart, possibly specializing in OBGYN or Family Practice, eager to contribute their talents and gifts to promote dignifying and wholistic care.
The Opportunity
With over 20 years of pregnancy help services under our belt, we are expanding to include a new freestanding nonprofit birth center in El Paso, Texas, just a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border in alignment with Wholistic Feminism, We are searching for a Medical Collaborating Physician to volunteer alongside our teams, providing expertise and guidance in a variety of health areas, particularly fertility care, prenatal care, labor, delivery, and postpartum care. The successful candidate will be committed to providing top-quality wholistic care and education to our patients, focusing on wholism that integrates a person’s mind, body, and spirit.
The ideal candidate will enjoy:
- Our unique model: In addition to our programs to build a Culture of Life in the Southwest, we also strive to provide expert healthcare to ensure that women have a life-affirming alternative through pre-natal and post-natal healthcare, education, and material support.
- Our culture: At Southwest Coalition for Life, we offer a more relaxed working environment, catering to the needs of our employees and establishing a family-like feel, leading by example and supporting breastfeeding in the workplace.
- Being an innovator: With the merger and expansion of two non-profit organizations, you will be establishing the medical practice for a new venture and helping support a ground-breaking mission on the new frontline of the pro-life movement in post-Roe America.
The Company
Southwest Coalition, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation focused on restoring reverence for the sanctity of human life and natural womanhood across the Southwest through a coalition of nonprofit social enterprises in line with Catholic and Biblical teaching, including our Guiding Star Southwest women’s medical centers, The Lily Pad Maternity Home, our Her Care Connection outreach and mobile medical bus, and Coalition for Life ministries.
Our Core Values
All team members must embody and execute our Core Values within their day-to-day duties and responsibilities:
- Humble: Lack entitlement and ego, be respectful and flexible, don’t take yourself too seriously, set others up for success even at a potential loss for yourself.
- Hungry: Have an unrelenting hunger to change the world, taking initiative fueled by a boldly optimistic hope and entrepreneurial growth mindset.
- Smart: Strong emotional intelligence, understanding the impact of your words and actions on others, inviting vulnerable communication and healthy conflict.
- Heart: Be compassionate, prayerful, and empathetic with a sincere desire to truly see and know others through a reverence for life and natural womanhood.
What the Role Entails
The Medical Collaborating Physician will be tasked with various performance objectives, including
Performance Objectives:
- Work respectfully as part of our team of medical professionals, RNs, birth assistants, IBCLCs, office staff, etc.
- Focus on providing high-quality, evidence-based care for women and families.
- Ordering, performing, and interpreting diagnostic tests, and prescribing treatments.
- Assisting mothers and couples with prenatal care, labor and childbirth care, postpartum care, and newborn care appropriate to a community birth setting
- Monitoring the health of expectant mothers and their infants.
- Documentation and Reporting: Maintain detailed and accurate records of examinations, patient history, and pertinent findings in the electronic health record (EHR) and other designated systems. Prepare comprehensive reports summarizing diagnostic findings, measurements, and observations for timely delivery to referring physicians.
- Agrees with and is willing to uphold and adhere to the foundational principles in accordance with our Personnel Policies and Conflict Resolution Agreement.
- Counseling and educating male and female patients on natural reproductive health and fertility-awareness based methods of family planning.
- Performing administrative duties, such as taking patient histories, handling appointments, and processing payments.
- Plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
- Attend staff meetings, training, and education sessions as required
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Must be comfortable in a God-centered environment with a reverence for life at all ages from conception to natural death
- Excellent organizational and time management skills; Be self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to execute duties with little supervision and work effectively in a team-oriented environment
- Must have or be willing to acquire a thorough fact-based knowledge of pregnancy, abortion, and related health issues, as well as strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Highest level of personal integrity, must be humbly-confident, hard-working, trustworthy and work with a positive, friendly, and patient attitude
- Ability to thrive, remain flexible and focused in a fast-paced and evolving work environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills and collaborative leadership skills
- Ability to prioritize tasks and delegate when appropriate
- Proficient in commonly-used computer programs and applications, such as Google Workspace, project management apps (Asana), time clock, messaging apps (Slack), and other relevant technologies
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to effectively interact with patients and medical professionals.
- 2+ year experience in a medical practice setting (Preferred)
- Language: English (Required) and Spanish (Preferred)
- Regularly required to walk, stand, drive, sit for long periods of time (Required)
- Must be proficient at entering data in a quick and efficient manner (Required)
- Must be able to lift and carry objects up to 40 pounds. (Required)
- License/Certification: Must have/obtain a valid medical license in the State of Texas. Licensure in New Mexico also preferred.
- Ability to commute:
El Paso, TX 79902 & Las Cruces, NM 88011 - Must possess a valid driver’s license, auto insurance, and reliable personal vehicle for transportation (Required)