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
- None
Qualifications
Minimum Education Required- Academic preparation and degree from accredited Physician Assistant program with current licensure in state of AL
- BCLS certification
- ACLS certification
- Up to one year of position-related experience
- 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.
ShiftDayShift Details
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TypeRegular
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What We Do
Since opening its doors in 1957, Southeast Health has provided for the changing healthcare needs of the growing communities it serves which includes about 600,000 residents neighboring communities and counties of Southeast Alabama, Southwest Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. Our progress represents the culmination of distinguished service by dedicated board members, physicians, employees and volunteers, and a supportive community. It takes more than technology and a modern facility to treat people. It takes a team of dedicated, well-trained professionals to continually deliver quality healthcare. Employing about 2,500, Southeast Health is recognized as one of the largest employers in the region and is proud of its reputation of providing a positive and responsive work environment. Southeast Health's medical staff consists of more than 225 active members and just over 400 total members either board certified or board prepared in specialties representing virtually every area of medicine. Through innovation and sustained performance, Southeast Health, a 420-bed regional referral center, has achieved the reputation of providing the best diagnostic, clinical, surgical and patient care services available in the region







