Full Job Description
Essen Health Care is the largest privately held, multispecialty medical group in New York, providing high-quality, compassionate care to some of the state’s most vulnerable and underserved residents.
Founded in 1999, we’ve grown from a single primary care office into a network of 50+ locations offering urgent care, primary care and specialty services, from women’s health to endocrinology and psychiatry. We also provide nursing home support, care management, and in-home care through our Essen House Calls program. Guided by a Population Health model, our team of 500+ providers deliver care in-person, at home, or via telehealth, ensuring patients get the support they need when and where they need it.
Job Summary: The Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant will support the doctors’ work and actively facilitate patients’ recovery. You will apply medical techniques and principles under the direction of a physician and you will deal with a diverse set of patients offering them care and encouragement.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
- Provide healthcare services under supervision of a physician.
- Examine patients and record their medical histories.
- Conduct physicals and treat minor injuries (sutures, splints, etc)
- Order diagnostic tests, interpret results and diagnose medical conditions.
- Prescribe therapy or medication with physician approval.
- Monitor responses to treatments and counsel patients.
- Assess patients’ health and their demands and aim to fulfill them as well as possible.
- Issue appropriate prescriptions and administer medicine.
- Inform physicians about any problems or discrepancies that might arise.
- Acquire and review patient histories identifying abnormal conditions.
- Monitor patients’ progress and keep records of treatments, surgeries or other medical events.
- Prepare patients for examinations and conduct routine procedures (measure blood pressure and temperature, administer injections etc)
- Provide therapeutic treatments (disinfecting wounds, stitching etc.)
- Collaborate effectively with team members of various specializations.
- Attend to emergencies.
Dermatology
Cardiology
House Calls (with a driver)
Neurology
Pulmonology
Nephrology
Primary Care Providers
Urgent Care
ENT
Ortho
Pain Management
Job Requirements:
- Master’s Degree required
- Active New York license as a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner
- Currently New York Controlled Substance and Drug Enforcement Registration
- Master’s degree
- Graduate of an approved NP or PA Program and a post-graduate training program in surgery or at least one-year equivalent work experience
- Current Certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) or American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
- DOT, BLS, ACLS Preferred
- Bilingual a plus – Spanish
- Knowledge of EMR Systems preferred
Equal Opportunity Employer
Essen Health care is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to work in and serve an ethnically diverse population.
Pay: $135,000.00 – $150,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
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