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How to hire a Family Practitioner

Family practitioner hiring summary. Here are some key points about hiring family practitioners in the United States:

  • In the United States, the median cost per hire a family practitioner is $1,633.
  • It takes between 36 and 42 days to fill the average role in the US.
  • Human Resources use 15% of their expenses on recruitment on average.
  • On average, it takes around 12 weeks for a new family practitioner to become settled and show total productivity levels at work.

How to hire a family practitioner, step by step

To hire a family practitioner, you need to identify the specific skills and experience you want in a candidate, allocate a budget for the position, and advertise the job opening to attract potential candidates. To hire a family practitioner, you should follow these steps:

Here's a step-by-step family practitioner hiring guide:

  • Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
  • Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
  • Step 3: Make a budget
  • Step 4: Write a family practitioner job description
  • Step 5: Post your job
  • Step 6: Interview candidates
  • Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new family practitioner
  • Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

What does a Family Practitioner do?

Family practitioners are medical professionals who are responsible for providing care for an entire family in small and rural communities. By using their knowledge in the medical profession, these doctors are required to diagnose and treat a variety of medical issues while referring patients to an appropriate specialist if medical problems are outside their range of practice. They must participate in well-care visits with their patients to monitor the development of their health as well as perform routine tests such as cholesterol tests and blood pressure readings. Family practitioners must also help women give birth to a child.

Learn more about the specifics of what a family practitioner does
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  1. Identify your hiring needs

    Before you start hiring a family practitioner, identify what type of worker you actually need. Certain positions might call for a full-time employee, while others can be done by a part-time worker or contractor.

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    Hiring the perfect family practitioner also involves considering the ideal background you'd like them to have. Depending on what industry or field they have experience in, they'll bring different skills to the job. It's also important to consider what levels of seniority and education the job requires and what kind of salary such a candidate would likely demand.

    Here's a comparison of family practitioner salaries for various roles:

    Type Of Family PractitionerDescriptionHourly Rate
    Family PractitionerPhysicians and surgeons diagnose and treat injuries or illnesses. Physicians examine patients; take medical histories; prescribe medications; and order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests... Show More$43-172
    PhysicianPhysicians' general responsibility is to check, diagnose, and treat a patient's condition to improve their overall wellness. A physician could be General Practitioners or Specialist Physicians, wherein General Practitioners are physicians who provide regular checkups for patients depending on their needs and refer them to a Specialist Physicians who are more skilled in a particular field of expertise for a thorough diagnosis... Show More$61-212
    In-House PhysicianAn In-House Physician is in charge of providing health care services to diagnose and treat the medical conditions of patients within a community or organization. Their responsibilities typically include providing consultations, conducting various tests and examinations, studying a patient's medical history, prescribing medication, developing care and treatment plans, and referring patients to other specialists when necessary... Show More$54-165
  2. Create an ideal candidate profile

    Common Skills:
    • Family Medicine
    • Patients
    • Family Practice
    • Internal Medicine
    • Urgent Care
    • Pediatrics
    • Rehabilitation
    • Private Practice
    • Direct Patient Care
    • Medical Care
    • Primary Care
    • Nursing Home
    • Diagnosis
    • EKG
    Check All Skills
    Responsibilities:
    • Manage family health problems, examine patients, perform physical examination.
    • Manage conditions including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, hypothyroidism, asthma, and GERD.
    • Provide examination, testing, diagnosis, treatment, referral and follow- up care for newborn through geriatrics.
    • Provide residential care and emergency medical treatment to incapacitate elderly patients
    • Operate electrocardiogram equipment to administer diagnostic testing (EKG).
    • Ensure patient and family understanding of diagnosis treatment and all accompanying relevant information.
    More Family Practitioner duties
  3. Make a budget

    Including a salary range in your family practitioner job description helps attract top candidates to the position. A family practitioner salary can be affected by several factors, such as geography, experience, seniority, certifications, and the prestige of the hiring company.

    For example, the average salary for a family practitioner in Maine may be lower than in Florida, and an entry-level family practitioner usually earns less than a senior-level family practitioner. Additionally, a family practitioner with certifications may command a higher salary, and working for a well-known company or start-up may also impact an employee's pay.

    Average family practitioner salary

    $180,399yearly

    $86.73 hourly rate

    Entry-level family practitioner salary
    $90,000 yearly salary
    Updated February 10, 2025

    Average family practitioner salary by state

    RankStateAvg. SalaryHourly Rate
    1Pennsylvania$185,118$89
    2Kentucky$182,421$88
    3Washington$181,439$87
    4Texas$179,449$86
    5Alabama$177,517$85
    6California$173,397$83
    7Montana$166,811$80
    8Michigan$166,708$80
    9North Carolina$159,581$77
    10Illinois$158,209$76
    11Indiana$155,727$75
    12Maryland$150,538$72
    13Oregon$146,964$71
    14New York$145,691$70
    15Massachusetts$141,036$68
    16Wyoming$133,035$64

    Average family practitioner salary by company

  4. Writing a Family Practitioner Job Description

    A good family practitioner job description should include a few things:

    • Summary of the role
    • List of responsibilities
    • Required skills and experience

    Including a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager is also appreciated by candidates. Here's an example of a family practitioner job description:

    Family Practitioner job description example

    Due to ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act of 2021) funds, this position has the potential to make up to an additional $9,084 annually in stipends on top of the base salary. This has been approved through 6/30/2023 with the potential to be extended.

    At Child & Family, we hold two core beliefs. That individuals and communities thrive when supported by strong families and that a community works best when it accepts responsibility for all of its members. These beliefs influence everything we do and have guided our growth since we first opened our doors in 1866.
    FLSA Status: Exempt

    Hours: 37.5 per week

    Supervisory Responsibilities: None

    Job Summary

    Family Centered Treatment (FCT) is an evidence based model approach that provides intensive in-home support to families susceptible to removal of a child from their home or have a child returning from out-of-home placement. FCT addresses the needs of the family unit as a whole, recognizing that what affects one family member affects all family members. The FCT Specialist will meet with their clients several times a week, using the FCT model to reduce the families dependence on professional services and increase their independence as a unit, decrease out-of-home placements, and improve communication between family members.

    Responsibilities and Duties

    * Effective joining with the family and initiation of services including provision of services with families defined as resistant or oppositional to services
    * Provide 24/7 on-call support for all assigned families
    * Provision of family and / or individual sessions per the requirements of the assigned treatment model
    * Provision of the services with a variance of days / hours designed to respond to the client/family needs/schedule
    * Observation of appropriate personal and professional boundaries and adhere to FCT and professional code of ethics
    * Provision of a service or treatment plan that is based on an effective assessment; i.e. the FCT Family Centered Evaluation
    * Provision of a closure and aftercare plan for each family / client

    Qualifications and Skills

    * Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred
    * Valid driver's license
    * Ability to maintain a flexible schedule due to the nature of the workflow

    Benefits and Perks

    All full-time and part-time employees are considered benefit eligible, temporary employees are eligible for sick time under RI law.

    * 12 holidays, 2-4 weeks vacation, 12 sick days, and 1 personal day annually: paid time off is pro-rated for part-time employees
    * Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI health insurance: 2 plan options
    * Fully funded Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
    * Delta Dental of RI
    * VSP vision insurance
    * Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA): dependent care and health care
    * Agency paid for New York Life/Cigna life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and long-term disability
    * Supplemental AFLAC insurance: 5 plans available
    * 401(k) plan: traditional and Roth deferrals available, with company contribution after 1 year of service
    * Coastline EAP
    * Tuition Assistance Program after 6 months of service
    * Employee Referral Bonus Program
    * Discounted child care available at Middletown building
    * Discounted cell phone discount through Verizon
    * Discounted Nationwide Insurance pet insurance
    * Discounted YMCA membership
    * Discounted BJ's membership
    * Potential for housing assistance on Aquidneck Island only
    * Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligible
    * RI DOH license, bilingual, and advanced degree salary stipends
    * Shift differential for night shifts
    * Direct deposit and employee self services through Paycom

    EOE/AAP Participant

    Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

    C&F strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.
  5. Post your job

    There are a few common ways to find family practitioners for your business:

    • Promoting internally or recruiting from your existing workforce.
    • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
    • Attend job fairs at local colleges to meet candidates with the right educational background.
    • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to recruit passive job-seekers.
    Post your job online:
    • Post your family practitioner job on Zippia to find and attract quality family practitioner candidates.
    • Use niche websites such as healthcarejobsite, health jobs nationwide, hospitalcareers, medreps.com.
    • Post a job on free websites.
  6. Interview candidates

    Your first interview with family practitioner candidates should focus on their interest in the role and background experience. As the hiring process goes on, you can learn more about how they'd fit into the company culture in later rounds of interviews.

    You should also ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match the ideal candidate profile you developed earlier. Candidates good enough for the next step can complete the technical interview.

    The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

  7. Send a job offer and onboard your new family practitioner

    Once you've selected the best family practitioner candidate for the job, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, this letter should include details about the benefits and perks you offer the candidate. Ensuring that your offer is competitive is essential, as qualified candidates may be considering other job opportunities. The candidate may wish to negotiate the terms of the offer, and you should be open to discussion. After you reach an agreement, the final step is formalizing the agreement with a contract.

    You should also follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that you've filled the position.

    To prepare for the new family practitioner first day, you should share an onboarding schedule with them that covers their first period on the job. You should also quickly complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Finally, Human Resources must ensure a new employee file is created for internal record keeping.

  8. Go through the hiring process checklist

    • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
    • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
    • Define job responsibilities and requirements
    • Establish budget and timeline
    • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
    • Write job description
    • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
    • Promote the job internally
    • Process applications through applicant tracking system
    • Review resumes and cover letters
    • Shortlist candidates for screening
    • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
    • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
    • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
    • Conduct background checks on top candidates
    • Check references of top candidates
    • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
    • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
    • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
    • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
    • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
    • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)
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How much does it cost to hire a family practitioner?

Recruiting family practitioners involves both the one-time costs of hiring and the ongoing costs of adding a new employee to your team. Your spending during the hiring process will mostly be on things like promoting the job on job boards, reviewing and interviewing candidates, and onboarding the new hire. Ongoing costs will obviously involve the employee's salary, but also may include things like benefits.

The median annual salary for family practitioners is $180,399 in the US. However, the cost of family practitioner hiring can vary a lot depending on location. Additionally, hiring a family practitioner for contract work or on a per-project basis typically costs between $43 and $172 an hour.

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