Pediatrician - Pediatric Weight Care (Remote) - Texas License

**About Tailwind Care** ======================= Tailwind Care is building a better way to care for kids and teens with metabolic health concerns through a family\-centered model. Too often, families are left to navigate fragmented care, long waitlists, and a system that treats medical, nutritional, and behavioral needs separately. We bring medical care, nutrition, and behavioral health together in one coordinated, evidence\-based program, covered by insurance. Our goal is to help kids and teens build healthier lives, with care that’s practical, compassionate, and built around the whole family. **About the role** ================== As a Pediatrician at Tailwind Care, you’ll provide evidence\-based medical evaluation and treatment to children and adolescents with obesity and weight\-related health concerns through virtual care. You’ll assess new patients, develop individualized treatment plans, evaluate and manage weight\-related medical conditions, and provide ongoing follow\-up as patients progress. You’ll work closely with registered dietitians, behavioral health clinicians, and care coordinators as part of a multidisciplinary care team. As a 1099 independent contractor with Tailwind Care, you will not be eligible for employee benefits, including health insurance or paid time off. Tailwind will provide services to support your practice, such as patient matching, billing, and administrative support. **What you’ll own** =================== * **Evaluate and plan.** Conduct comprehensive evaluations of new patients, including history, growth trajectory, labs, medications, and comorbidities, and develop individualized, evidence\-based treatment plans based on clinical needs and family goals. * **Manage weight\-related conditions and medications.** Address comorbidities, order and interpret labs, and prescribe and manage medications when clinically indicated, including FDA\-approved obesity management medications for eligible patients. * **Deliver respectful, stigma\-free care.** Discuss obesity and weight\-related health concerns with children and families in a clinically direct, culturally responsive, and non\-stigmatizing way, while recognizing obesity as a chronic disease. * **Provide longitudinal follow\-up.** Monitor progress, medication response, side effects, and labs, adjusting treatment as patients progress. * **Coordinate care.** Work with Tailwind’s dietitians, behavioral health clinicians, and care coordinators, as well as patients’ primary care and referring clinicians, to keep care connected. * **Keep records that hold up.** Complete timely, accurate documentation supporting continuity of care, medical necessity, and payer requirements. **What makes this role different** ================================== * **Your hours are guaranteed.** Most telehealth platforms pay per visit and guarantee nothing. We reserve a weekly block and pay all of it while we fill your schedule. * **Practice as part of a multidisciplinary team.**