Physician

Description

Primary Purpose

To provide direct medical care to patients of FoundCare as part of the medical provider team, including primary care, chronic disease management, and minor procedures. Unless specifically exempted by the Chief Executive Officer, Physicians are qualified to provide inpatient care, assume on-call after-hours responsibilities, and supervise the health center’s PAs and NPs as appropriate.

Essential Job Functions

Provide direct medical services to program patients. Scope of work includes Primary Care Medicine, chronic illness and disease management minor surgeries and procedures, and all other areas of family medicine.

• Interdepartmental medical consultation as requested.
• Clinical supervision of mid-level staff, resident physicians, FNP/PA and medical students as needed.

Participate in the development of medical services, including protocols, standard procedures, and management of patient care related activities.

• Quick response/accurate data entry to present treatment plans to patients in a short timeframe.
• Maintain patient and family confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA regulations.
• Serve as liaison with the local medical community.
• Initiate appropriate specialty referrals.

Advise Chief Medical Officer/Medical Director of any problems that can affect the efficiency of the Health Center.

Maintain a problem-oriented health record for each patient seen in accordance with the Center's established Health Information Management policies and procedures to include providing appropriate and legible documentation.

• Complete appropriate documentation necessary for Data and Billing Department.
• Advise nursing and/or medical assistant staff of appropriate response to patient phone calls.

Assist with agency fundraising activities are requested, including promotional events, selling tickets, soliciting donations, and other tasks to support events.

Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Comprehensive knowledge of primary care medicine, chronic disease management, and family medicine practices, with the clinical judgment to apply this knowledge across a diverse patient population.

Ability to review, understand, and apply concepts presented in training programs, conferences, and/or professional literature.

Clear understanding that FoundCare provides information on educating individuals on safer sex practices, which would include but not be limited to, exposure to explicit language, explicit printed material, and descriptions of explicit sexual activities as part of the agency's mission in the prevention and transmission of HIV disease.

• Ability to use good reasoning and judgment and to react calmly in emergency situations.
• Ability to handle special projects on an ongoing basis while addressing the daily needs of the department.

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with patients, medical staff, coworkers, and the public.

Ability to effectively communicate with patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams, including the ability to communicate in the English language with or without the use of interpreters or auxiliary services.

Ability to use computer programs in completion of duties, including the ability to navigate electronic health record systems.

Physical Requirements

Ability to endure short, intermittent, and/or long periods of sitting and/or standing in performance of job duties.

Full range of body motion required. Position requires reaching, bending, and handling objects with hands and/or fingers, talking and/or hearing, and sight.

Exposure to blood and body fluids, communicable diseases and utilizing standard precautions to prevent transmission of diseases acquired by contact with blood, body fluids, non-intact skin and mucous membranes.

• Ability to lift and carry objects weighing 25 pounds or less.
• Ability to use standard office and clinical equipment and technology in the course of daily duties.
• Ability to travel to other FoundCare locations and perform job duties.

Ability to travel to other locations to attend meetings, workshops, and seminars, plus travel to other FoundCare departments and FoundCare conference rooms.

Minimum Qualifications

Graduation from an accredited medical school or college of osteopathic medicine with a degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO).

Completion of an approved residency program as required by the position.

Possession of a current unrestricted license to practice Medicine in the State of Florida. Board Certified preferred.

Annual continuing medical education as required by Board specialty

Must be registered and have current DEA, and other such certificates to legally operate as a practitioner in the State of Florida.

• Possession of a minimum of two (2) years of clinical experience in the direct delivery of primary care.
• This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.