Family Practice Physician

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary

This position will play vital role in the Health Center’s primary care program. Successful candidates will be able to provide comprehensive medical services for patients of all ages. The candidate will be responsible for meeting, assessing and diagnosing patients in our clinic and providing them with healthcare services that meet the national standards of care.

Essential Functions:

Promotes and believes in BACHC mission statement “Helping People Heal”.

Believes and aligns with BACHC core Values of Compassion, Respect, Integrity, Accountability and Teamwork.

Treats everyone equally regardless of racial, ethnic, religious, social, and economic status or background.

Performs all job functions in a professional and courteous manner.

Provides excellent customer service to internal and external clients/patients by being responsive to all inquiries in a timely manner.

Performs job duties collaboratively with health center management and exercises good judgement.

Fosters and promotes a culture of service excellence and accountability with focus on patient safety.

Consistently adheres to a high standard of professional ethics; conducts self in an ethical manner and is a role model to others.

Ensure patient information is always secure and confidential.

Perform evaluation and treatment of patients in an outpatient clinic setting.

Assess medical needs and develop a care plan and preventive health maintenance, assess acute needs, chronic conditions.

Keep accurate, concise, and thorough documentation of all medical history, exam results, and discussions with patients in relation to their health care. Close all notes in the EMR in a timely manner.

Review and sign off on all laboratory and radiology results. Ensure that there is patient follow up when necessary.

Initiate and follow through on specialist referrals. Communicate with specialist providers when necessary.

Serve as a clinic supervisor for mid-level providers.

Meet productivity standards for care providers, including a goal of seeing 16-24 patients daily.

Participate in care team huddles, provider meetings, and all-staff meetings.

Perform all other related duties as assigned.

Education

At least 3 years of experience in a related role outside of their residency

Licensed to practice medicine in the state of California

DEA certificate

CPR Certification

Skills / Experience

1. A keen interest in helping the underserved population (e.g. the homeless population).

2. FQHC Experience a plus

3. Familiarity with Quality Measures a plus

4. Able to be successfully credentialed by BACHC.

5. Strong communication and interpersonal skills

6. Bilingual (English and Spanish) a plus

Physical Demands

This is a physical position that will require standing on your feet, and walking. This would require the ability sit, walk, bend or stand as necessary, and ability to lift up to 25lbs.

Other physical demands of the position include but are not limited to:

1. Use of hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools, or controls

2. Repetitious movements

3. Sit for long periods of time

4. Bend and twist the body

5. See details of objects nearby

Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a Full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, hours range from 7:30am-6:30pm with occasional approved overtime.

Travel

On occasion travel will be required.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice to fit the needs of this position and BACHC.

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OUR MISSION

The mission of Bartz-Altadonna Community Health Center is to provide, patient-centered, high-quality, trauma-informed health and wellness care services to all regardless of ability to pay.

“Healing the whole person; enliven the whole community”.