This is a PRN Role
The Circle the City Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner provides high quality holistic health care as an integral part of a dynamic interdisciplinary team. Care is provided in multiple settings including the innovative Medical Respite Center, Parsons Family Health Center, Downtown Family Health Center, the mobile medical unit, and street outreach sites.
Summary of Position:
The Physician PRN Float is an independently licensed physician in the state of Arizona who is board certified (or actively in the process of certification) in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine. This individual works collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to provide care for patients who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The Float provides support to all the Circle the City service lines (e.g. outpatient, respite or outreach setting) depending on Company needs. This person must be flexible in the ability to work in multiple diverse settings and have a strong desire to provide clinical care to vulnerable populations - particularly people facing homelessness. The successful candidate will be able to provide clinical care in diverse settings including medical mobile units, brick-and-mortar clinical settings, as well as "back-pack" medicine.
The Physician provides direct patient care and must be comfortable with flexibility of work schedule.
Essential duties:
Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Develops unique ways to deliver health care in a compassionate, expedited, and patient-centered manner.
- Assesses patient health by interviewing patients, performing examinations, obtaining, updating, and studying medical histories
- Generates differential diagnoses for acute, chronic and/or undifferentiated illnesses and utilizes critical thinking and decision making when independently developing treatment plans for patients experiencing homelessness.
- Identifies opportunities to promote and maintain wellness in patients utilizing screening and prevention guidelines and understands barriers in achieving wellness in people experiencing homelessness and work to address those barriers.
- Documents patient care and clinical decision making accurately and efficiently in the agency's Electronic Medical Record and meets agency requirements regarding timeliness of chart completion and productivity expectations.
- Coordinates patient-centered care using a multidisciplinary team and community resources. Can navigate the complex care requirements necessary for effectively caring for those experiencing homelessness.
- Apply evidence-based care principles in treatment of patients experiencing homelessness, integrating patient preferences in care plans and provides continuity of care by developing and implementing patient management plans and care transitions.
- Appropriately utilizes healthcare resources in the management of patients experiencing homelessness (specialist referrals, ED referrals, lab utilization and medication management) Collaborates and effectively seeks consultation with physicians and other care providers as needed in the provision of care and the formulation of treatment plans with a goal of decreased fragmentation of healthcare..
- Maintains positive therapeutic relationships with patients, using language and nonverbal behavior to demonstrate respect and establish rapport.
- Assesses patient health learning levels to provide medical information and health education in culturally and linguistically appropriate communication techniques.
- Assists patients in identifying barriers to care and social determinants of health and appropriately refers patients to community resources as needed.
- Contributes to the integrated care team's activities around process improvement, workflow design and training.
- Uses data systems to monitor gaps in care.
- Maintains an exceptional level of customer service; addresses and resolves complaints; serves as an example by providing excellent service to internal and external customers, employees, and patients.
- Maintains safe and clean working environments by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Comply with federal, state, and local legal professional requirements by studying existing and new legislation; enforces adherence to requirements; advises management on needed actions.
- Embraces and promotes a professional working environment based on understanding and respect for diversity and multi-culturalism in all its forms; demonstrates sensitivity, acknowledges varied beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and customs, and encourages communication and appreciation of all forms of diversity.
- Maintains patient confidentiality by controlling the environment and information being disclosed to authorized individuals always ensuring HIPAA and organizational compliance requirements.