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Job Description Summary

A Family Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) is an advanced practice provider specializing in comprehensive, continuous, and coordinated primary care services to patients and their families across the lifespan. Working collaboratively with supervising physician(s) and other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team, the Family Medicine PA provides the highest quality of care in an outpatient setting, optimizing patient outcomes, and serving as a vital link in the community’s primary care system.

Job Description

Essential Functions

• Manages and treats patients with a wide-range of acute illnesses, chronic conditions, and diseases in all patients across all age groups, focusing on clinical excellence, patient education, and collaboration.
• Conducts physical examinations on patients.
• Orders, performs, and interprets diagnostic and screening tests, such as EKGs, lab work, and imaging studies.
• Diagnoses, treats, and manages the health care needs of patients; referring to physicians when medically appropriate.
• Provides age-appropriate preventative health screenings and immunizations (e.g. well-child checks, adult annual physicals, cancer screenings).
• Consults and collaborates with primary care providers, and other specialists to ensure coordinated and holistic patient care.
• Performs minor office-based procedures as credentialed
• Coordinates follow-up care and referrals.
• Compiles and evaluates medical history, physical findings and diagnostic data to include but not limited to radiographic, laboratory, ultrasound, EKG, EEG, CT and nuclear scans, MRI and MRA studies on all patients to formulate accurate diagnoses.
• Monitors medications and initiates appropriate therapies and alters medications according to variations in a patient's response within established protocols.
• Provides and documents patient education regarding treatments, medications, and community resources. Promotes health, disease prevention, and management strategies based on age specific needs.
• Coordinates the implementation and continuity of medical treatment through activities such as home/hospital findings and other resources.
• Participates in the orientation and staff development programs for personnel assisting with patient care.
• Performs other duties as requested by primary manager that do not compromise moral code of conduct or protocols set in place for patient or employee safety

Supervised Positions

• None

Qualifications

Minimum Education Required

• Academic preparation and degree from accredited Physician Assistant program with current licensure in state of AL
• BCLS certification

Minimum Education Preferred

• ACLS certification

Minimum Experience Required

• Up to one year of position-related experience

Minimum Experience Preferred

• 2+ years of family medicine or primary care experience

Required Knowledge/ Skills/ Abilities

• Maintains current Alabama licensure.
• Maintains current any certifications obtained.
• Possesses a strong foundation in evidence based practice and education and accepts the responsibility for providing an environment of safe quality care.
• Demonstrates an advanced level of medical and nursing knowledge, clinical and technical competence, sound clinical judgment and professionalism as it relates to interpersonal and general communication skills
• Accepts accountability for own work and team outcomes when appropriate.
• Reports promptly any critical or unusual situations.
• Demonstrates ability to work with patients, families, visitors, and co-workers regardless of race, gender, disease process, life-style, religious or cultural beliefs.
• Works as a liaison for the patient to gain access to providers, case management, and dietary consults.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrates the knowledge and ability to select appropriate guidelines for the following age groups: Infancy to pediatrics, Adult 19-65 years, and Geriatric 65 years and older
• Practices effective stress reduction techniques.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the computer based medical record.
• Demonstrates responsibility for educational requirements as evidenced by reading all assigned related references, and attending all required educational meetings, or webinars, and completing annual Symplr requirements.
• Demonstrates commitment to organizations five (5) priorities and Six Ground Rules
• Person in this position is required to understand, agree upon and follow our Six Ground Rules:
  • No excuses.
  • We are a team.
  • Bring up your ideas.
  • Poor performance will be addressed.
  • ‘That’s not my job’ is not acceptable
  • Manage Up.

Shift

Day

Shift Details

FTE

1

Type

Regular

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Southeast Health is committed to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Southeast Health will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.