Full Job Description
Main Function:
- Provides clinical medicine services and applicable administrative services to F.F. Thompson
Hospital Urgent Care patients.
- Provides consistent, high quality care consistent with accepted national and/or community
standards.
- Collaborates with office staff in development and performance of efficient office practices.
- Fosters a cohesive Thompson identity.
- Assures regulatory compliance.
- Provides patient management and role modeling that unifies practice goals with health
system goals.
- Acts in the best interest of the patient.
- Assists the health system in meeting strategic goals.
Required Job Specific Competencies:
- Recognized competence in outpatient clinical medicine. S/he must have the ability to assess
data reflective of the patient’s status, interpret the appropriate information needed to identify
each patient’s requirements relative to her/his age-specific needs and provide the necessary
care.
- Demonstrates knowledge necessary to ensure care appropriate to the age of the patient. This
includes demonstration of knowledge and principles of growth and development over a life
span.
- Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with all office staff and providers.
- Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with hospital leaders.
- Knowledge of recognized best patient care practices in his/her department.
- Maintains current knowledge of and ability to institute programs necessary to comply with
evolving regulatory requirements.
- Consistent excellence in provider-patient and provider-staff communications.
- Exhibits leadership skills and professional behavior consistently.
- Actively guards confidential and protected information.
- Willing to receive feedback from associates and patients/families.
- Lives the CARES values at all times.
- Generates legible, meaningful, comprehensive and timely (within 1 business day of the date
of service) patient care records sufficient for all patient care, regulatory, billing and other uses
of the medical record.
- Responsible for ensuring all professional licenses, registrations, liability insurance education
and renewal requirements and applicable physician certifications are up to date and current as
required for employment.
Qualifications:
- Active NYS certification/registration as a Physician Assistant
- BLS, ACLS required. PALS recommended
- DEA license required
- Able to gain appropriate FFTH privileges
Education:
- Graduation from an ARC-PA approved school as a Physician Assistant
- Meets continuing education requirements of the applicable discipline board
Experience:
- Previous experience as a Physician Assistant preferred particularly in urgent care or emergency medicine
- Previous experience in primary care medicine preferred
Pay Range: $62.00 – $70.00
Starting Pay: Based on Experience
Thompson Health is an EOE encouraging women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply
Experience
Preferred
- Previous experience as a physician assistant/nurse practitioner preferred.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)