Full Job Description
Schedule: Tuesday – Friday and a Saturday shift approximately every 7 weeks 4 10-hour days between the hours of 5:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Department: ARUP Family Health Clinic – 141
Primary Purpose:
The Physician Assistant works collaboratively with clinical staff to ensure delivery of high-quality, comprehensive patient-centered primary care and employee health services for ARUP Laboratories and its community of all ages.
About ARUP:
ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
ARUP proudly hires top talent to create a work environment of diversity, professional growth and continuous development. Our workforce is committed to the important service we provide to over one million patients each month. We always strive for excellence and have a strong desire to have involvement with the advances in medicine and the role laboratory services plays within each patient’s life. We never forget that there is a patient behind every specimen we receive.
We are looking for individuals who want to contribute to ARUP’s culture of accountability, integrity, service, and excellence. Consider joining our dynamic team.
Essential Functions:
Patient Assessment: Reviews electronic medical records, takes detailed histories, conducts physical exams, and assesses patients’ overall health status.
Diagnosis & Treatment: Formulates diagnoses, orders/interprets tests, develops and manages treatment plans, and prescribes medications in collaboration with supervising clinicians. This includes preventive, acute, chronic, and complex care needs.
Clinical Decision Making: Applies evidence-based guidelines, critical thinking, and collaborative consultation to develop and implement individualized treatment plans. Ensure timely and appropriate interventions while considering patient safety, quality outcomes, and resource utilization.
Health Equity: Provides compassionate, patient-centered care to individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and value systems. Demonstrates sensitivity and adaptability in communication and treatment planning to respect cultural differences and promote health equity.
Collaborative Care: Works within interdisciplinary teams (physicians, pharmacists, nurses, medical assistants, phlebotomists, etc.) to provide comprehensive primary care services. Consult with outside providers and specialists as needed.
Patient Education: Counsels patients and families on health maintenance, illness, and treatment options with shared clinical decision making.
Documentation: Ensure accurate and timely completion of all electronic medical records and legal documentation
Procedures: Performs selected invasive procedures as validated within their scope of practice.
Specialized Care: May support specific populations, like children (pediatrics/developmental), those with complex conditions, mental health, or substance use/trauma.
Employee Health: Participates in annual occupational health assessments and employee work injury/exposure evaluations. This includes return-to-work guidance and collaboration with corporate safety.
Quality Improvement: Participates in developing and implementing quality improvement initiatives. Attends, participates in, and contributes to in-service education and staff training to maintain and increase skills
Legal: Adheres to state laws and regulations. Maintains all licenses, certifications, and credentials.
Other duties as assigned.
Physical and Other Requirements:
Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
Mobility: The person in this position needs to occasionally move between work sites and inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
Communicate: Frequently communicate with others.
PPE: Biohazard laboratory environment that requires use of personal protective equipment in accordance with CDC and OSHA regulations and company policies.
ARUP Policies and Procedures: To conduct self in compliance with all ARUP Policies and Procedures.
Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
Fine Motor Control: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
Vision: Having close, far, and peripheral visual acuity to perform a variety of tasks such as make general observations of depth and distance.
Experience
Required
- Graduated from a nationally accredited Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner program (Master’s degree or greater)
- Must maintain national certification as a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner
- Must maintain State of Utah provider license (PA/NP) through the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing
- Eligible for Utah controlled substance License II through V through the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing. Must maintain this license while employed
- Eligible for Federal DEA License II through V. Must maintain an active DEA license while employed
- Must maintain active Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
Preferred
- Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification (ACLS)
- Two (2) years of experience working in a family practice clinic setting, pediatrics, urgent care, women’s health, and/or mental health settings
- Work schedule flexibility with occasional weekend (approximately 1 in 7 Saturdays) coverage
Education
Required
- Master’s Degree or better in Physician Assistant
Licenses & Certifications
Required
- Basic Life Support
- Physician Assistant
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