Full Job Description
SUPERVISOR: Medical Site Director HOURS: M-F 8-5, Some Sat. 9-12, Flexible
(May include weekend and/or evening hours as needed)
CLASSIFICATION: Full-time/Salaried/Exempt TRAVEL / LOCATION: TBD
JOB SUMMARY: The Physician’s Assistant is responsible for providing high quality primary medical care for patients at Jericho Road Community Health Center as part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary team. The physician will be primarily based at one outpatient clinic and may cover at times in other clinic sites. Ideally, the family medicine physician will work on the Jericho Road inpatient service covering adult, pediatrics, and obstetric patients, while having the opportunity to work with resident physicians. The ability to travel to our global clinic sites is available after one year of employment.
Essential Job Duties
CLINICAL
- Provide high quality primary care for adult, pediatric, and obstetric patients of Jericho Road Community Health Center
- Offer comprehensive, patient and family centered care
- Ensure consistent, cost-effective care
- Maintain electronic medical records efficiently and maximize resources
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary clinical and program teams at Jericho Road Community Health Center
- Create a learning plan that includes familiarity with new research and changes to standard of practice
- Participate in quality improvement activities with a data-driven approach
- Provide inpatient adult, pediatric, and obstetric care as part of a call pool with other family medicine and OB/GYN physicians
- Willingness to work with family medicine and pediatrics residents
- Attend required staff and provider meetings except when clinical activities prevent such attendance
- Provide patient care in a wholistic manner including attention to physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health
ADMINISTRATION
- Maintain electronic medical records efficiently and maximize resources
- Create a learning plan that includes familiarity with new research and changes to standard of practice
- Participate in quality improvement activities
- Attend required staff and provider meetings except when clinical activities prevent such attendance
- Maintains current certifications including all mandatory annual and CPR training
- Ability to adhere to professional code of ethics, and compliance to Article 28 and FQHC requirements
TEAM
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary clinical and program teams at Jericho Road Community Health Center
- Ensure all actions, personal conduct, and communications represent the organization in a highly professional manner at all times.
- Uphold and ensure compliance to all policies/procedures, mission, and organizational values in a highly professional manner at all times.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Must be able to sit or stand for long periods of time. Exert up to 50lbs. pushing, pulling, or lifting. Walking, climbing stairs required. Able to talk/hear and communicate with others with or without reasonable accommodation.
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: Must be able to travel to sites while maintaining standards of safety and compliance with motor vehicle traffic laws. This position may require travel for necessary training and conferences.