Physician Assistant - Urgent Care (Per Diem)

Main Function: 

• Provides clinical medicine services and applicable administrative services to F.F. Thompson • Hospital Urgent Care patients. • Provides consistent, high quality care consistent with accepted national and/or community • standards. • Collaborates with office staff in development and performance of efficient office practices. • Fosters a cohesive Thompson identity. • Assures regulatory compliance. • Provides patient management and role modeling that unifies practice goals with health • system goals. • Acts in the best interest of the patient. • Assists the health system in meeting strategic goals.

Required Job Specific Competencies: 

• Recognized competence in outpatient clinical medicine. S/he must have the ability to assess • data reflective of the patient’s status, interpret the appropriate information needed to identify • each patient’s requirements relative to her/his age-specific needs and provide the necessary • care. • Demonstrates knowledge necessary to ensure care appropriate to the age of the patient. This • includes demonstration of knowledge and principles of growth and development over a life • span. • Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with all office staff and providers. • Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with hospital leaders. • Knowledge of recognized best patient care practices in his/her department. • Maintains current knowledge of and ability to institute programs necessary to comply with • evolving regulatory requirements. • Consistent excellence in provider-patient and provider-staff communications. • Exhibits leadership skills and professional behavior consistently. • Actively guards confidential and protected information. • Willing to receive feedback from associates and patients/families. • Lives the CARES values at all times. • Generates legible, meaningful, comprehensive and timely (within 1 business day of the date • of service) patient care records sufficient for all patient care, regulatory, billing and other uses • of the medical record. • Responsible for ensuring all professional licenses, registrations, liability insurance education • and renewal requirements and applicable physician certifications are up to date and current as • required for employment.

Qualifications:

• Active NYS certification/registration as a Physician Assistant • BLS, ACLS required. PALS recommended• DEA license required• Able to gain appropriate FFTH privileges

Education:

• Graduation from an ARC-PA approved school as a Physician Assistant 
• Meets continuing education requirements of the applicable discipline board

Experience:

• Previous experience as a Physician Assistant preferred particularly in urgent care or emergency medicine
• Previous experience in primary care medicine preferred 

Pay Range: $85.00/hr.

Starting Pay: Based on Experience

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