Physician Assistant (MAT Clinic)

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

Employee must not and will not be under sanction by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) or by the General Services Administration (GSA) or listed on the OIG’s Cumulative Sanction Report, or the GSA’s List of Excluded Providers, or listed on the OIG’s List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE).

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles; risk of electrical shock and risk of radiation. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Preferences

• Experience working with patients experiencing active addiction (preferred but not required)

• Comfort providing care to individuals with opioid or alcohol use disorders

• Experience prescribing controlled substances in addiction‑treatment settings

• Training or familiarity with Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)

• Ability to manage a patient panel of approximately 75–100 individuals

• Interest in delivering comprehensive recovery services, including:

  • Intensive Outpatient Recovery Services

  • Contingency Management

  • Individual and group substance‑use counseling

  • Family care coordination

  • Peer recovery support

  • Coordination with detox and residential treatment programs for eligible patients