Grow with our Group Practice as a Full-time, Salaried Associate Acupuncturist!
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Who We Are
Grow within our heart-centered, collaborative, and supportive team as an Associate Acupuncturist. You have been a Staff Acupuncturist with Transformational Acupuncture for at least 18 months, and you would like to take on more responsibility and an active role in building, fostering, and supporting our administrative and clinical team. You desire to join the team in attracting patients, marketing, expanding our clinical model, and generating income.
Our Associate Acupuncturists work an average of 30-35 hours per week split between both clinical and administrative time. The base salary and benefit package offered by Transformational Acupuncture is more than 30% higher than the median salary (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2025; median DC-area acupuncturist salary: $78,220) and is the platinum standard for our profession. Our benefits package includes paid time off, medical/dental/vision/life insurance, malpractice insurance coverage, license and certification renewals, continuing education reimbursement, and company-sponsored 401k. Our base salary and benefit calculations do not include any potential bonuses or profit sharing. This position qualifies for promotion to management as a Clinical Director after at least 6 years as an Associate Acupuncturist.
What We Value
Mission Statement
Our mission is to help heal our patients, our communities, and ourselves through the work we perform at our clinic and in our local community. Our goal is to treat each other and every patient with the respect and care they deserve. We believe our patients’ care is of great importance, and we provide our patients with the best quality of care either through our services or by referring them to other healthcare professionals depending on their specific needs.
Core Values
Sustainability: We value sustainability in all aspects of our clinic. We take active steps to ensure that we do not exceed our available resources whether they be financial, energetic, time-based, or any other asset.
Compassion: We bring compassion to our patients and ourselves. We actively work to create a safe space for our patients’ emotional healing while maintaining necessary boundaries. We work to provide compassion for ourselves and our co-workers while maintaining professionalism.
Patient-Centered Care: We treat each and every patient with respect and a high level of care. We center our care on every patient during every interaction – from the moment they step into the clinic, to the consultation room, to receiving treatment, to checking out at the front desk, and finally to payment collection.
Privacy: We value the privacy of every patient. We actively work to ensure that each patient’s privacy is respected in every area of the clinic. We employ strict HIPAA protocols to ensure this privacy is respected both electronically and in the local community.
Commitment to Education: We are committed to lifelong learning as necessary for our profession. We actively seek to improve our clinical skills thereby improving the quality of our care and patient retention.
The Position
- Our management style is one where we value a heart-centered approach, transparency, professionalism, kindness, and open communication.
- Our Core Values are instrumental to the success of our group clinic.
- Practitioners will be collaborating, growing, and sharing clinical insights with a team of fellow East Asian Medicine practitioners.
- We employ part and full-time admin staff that cover office management, marketing, scheduling patients, insurance billing, and collection of payments.
- We offer lucrative paid time off with 4 weeks of PTO.
- While each practitioner’s schedule may vary, our work weeks are limited to either a 3-day or 4-day clinical schedule.
- Starting Base Salary: $72k. Additional benefits include:
- Medical/dental/vision/life insurance
- 4 weeks paid time off
- Reimbursement for license and certification renewals
- $1,000 CEU reimbursement per calendar year
- Malpractice insurance coverage
- 401k and profit sharing available
- Potential for bonuses based on individual and company-wide performance
- Our clinical spaces are serene, aesthetically pleasing, and often described by our patients as a sanctuary. Our main clinic is located in Dupont Circle and we have two satellite clinics throughout the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area.
- Continue to gain a lot of clinical experience, help a lot of people, and receive mentoring and professional development from master practitioners.
- Hone the art form of helping patients identify the root causes of their health issues, and address those causes through lifestyle and personal transformation.
- Discover your clinical and healing gifts, put them into practice, and begin to develop your area of specialization.
The Right Candidate
We owe our success to the fact that we look to hire people whose personality and character make them a good, harmonious fit with our clinic culture. Here is how we describe that person:
- Strong ability to work in or adapt to a busy, fast-paced environment.
- Verbal interactions with patients should be as therapeutic as your treatments.
- The ability to communicate clearly and effectively with both patients and fellow staff members. This individual can field a range of personality types—including the occasional difficult one—while maintaining a pleasant demeanor and a focus on positive outcomes.
- Accurately documenting patient notes in a timely manner and following clinic charting protocols for all patients (re-exams, proper indication of diagnosis codes, etc).
- Possess a strong work ethic and take pride in one’s work.
- Comfortable with technology. Familiarity with or ability to learn iPad, iOS, Unified Practice, Dispensary Tree, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Sheets, and Google Docs.
- Able and willing to adhere to our strict HIPAA and PHI policies.
- Prioritizes self-care because any healer is in danger of burning out if they are not proactive with their self-care. This is especially important at our clinic because our practitioners are very busy with patients.
- Possess a pleasant and professional demeanor towards staff and patients.
- Desire to work alongside colleagues who strongly value spiritual and personal development.
- Ability to collaborate with fellow practitioners within a group practice setting.
- Knowledge and ability to recommend and prescribe supplements, patent formulas, and custom herbal formulas.
- Possess an interest in committing to the clinic for the long term.
- Desires to work in a collaborative environment and understands that their contributions to the company benefit the entire team.
