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Northwest Permanente, P.C. is currently seeking a Board Certified or Board Eligible Palliative Medicine physician to support our medical group as a locum tenens (per diem) in the Hospice and Palliative Medicine department. You will work as part of our 18-clinician team in the Portland, Oregon metro area. You will need to demonstrate excellent communication, collaboration, and palliative care medical skills. Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship training is required.Kaiser Northwest has its own hospice program, integrated clinic-based palliative care and home-based palliative care, as well as an inpatient consultation service. The opportunities for palliative care clinicians are challenging and varied, and there is broad institutional support for our mission. We place a strong emphasis on a team-first, collaborative approach. In this role, you will work on an as-needed basis providing care to our Inpatient team at the Sunnyside and Westside medical centers. There is no call required for this role. You will need to be local to the Portland metro area and able to work as a W2, temporary employee with flexibility to cover both locations when our core staff needs additional support.For more information about this position, contact Jason Dulin, Physician Recruiter, at jason.r.dulin@kp.org.Join our medical group:Northwest Permanente is a self-governed (physician-led), multi-specialty group of 1,500 physicians, surgeons, and clinicians, caring for 630,000 members in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Kaiser Permanente is one of the nation's pre-eminent health care systems, a benchmark for comprehensive, integrated, value-based, and high-quality care.Equal opportunity employer:At Northwest Permanente, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Northwest Permanente believes that equity, inclusion, and diversity among our employees are critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.