[Hiring] Physician @Blueberry Pediatrics

Role Description

The Practicing Physician is a frontline clinician on the Balance care team. You will carry your own panel of Balance families, running intake, reviewing labs, designing care plans with families, prescribing GLP-1 therapy where appropriate, and managing that care over time—all within the protocols and multidisciplinary model the program is built on.

This is a part-time (1099), flexible engagement designed to grow with the program:

• Starts at a modest monthly commitment and scales up as the panel does.
• Strong fit for a physician who wants meaningful clinical work in adolescent metabolic health without a leadership mandate.
• Opportunity to build obesity-medicine expertise on the job.

You don't need to have run a program or hold an obesity-medicine certification to do this role well—you need sound clinical judgment, genuine interest in this population, and the willingness to work inside a coordinated, distributed care team.

What You'll Own

• Patient intake and evaluation
  • Complete comprehensive patient intake for adolescents entering the program, including history, risk factors, and eligibility review.
  • Order appropriate labs and review results, escalating findings that fall outside program guardrails.
• Care planning and treatment
  • Meet with patients and their families to design an appropriate, individualized care plan grounded in each teen's goals and clinical picture.
  • Prescribe and manage GLP-1 therapy where clinically appropriate, always within a holistic plan that includes nutrition and behavioral support.
  • Manage ongoing care for patients and families over time: monitoring visits, dose management, side-effect and safety management, and adherence support.
• Care-team coordination
  • Coordinate with other care team members—physicians, nurse practitioners, registered dietitians, and health coaches—so each family experiences one cohesive care plan rather than a set of disconnected touchpoints.
  • Follow the program's clinical protocols and escalation pathways, and surface complex or ambiguous cases to the Physician Lead.

Qualifications

• MD or DO with active, unrestricted medical license in good standing.
• Comfort and credibility caring for adolescents and their families.
• Interest in adolescent and obesity medicine, and a willingness to complete light onboarding training in weight/obesity management and GLP-1 therapy.
• Availability of 20–80 hours per month, starting on the lower end and scaling up as the program grows.
• Strong written communication; comfort operating in an asynchronous, distributed telehealth care team.

Preferred Experience

• Board certification in Obesity Medicine (ABOM/DABOM), or a clear path to gaining certification.
• Prior experience prescribing or managing GLP-1 therapy.
• Experience delivering care via telehealth, and fluency with the workflow differences it demands.
• Experience working alongside registered dietitians, behavioral health clinicians, and health coaches in a multidisciplinary model.
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) or experience serving linguistically diverse pediatric populations.

Time Commitment and Growth Trajectory

This is a part-time role, starting at 20–80 hours per month and scaling with the program's patient panel.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.