SENIOR PHYSICIAN - PRIMARY CARE - 60004745

Senior Physician Primary Care

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is the state of Florida's social services agency. The agency oversees services for child safety, fostering, adoption, domestic violence, adult protective services, refugees, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, childcare providers, human trafficking and public assistance. The agency's mission is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency. Within DCF, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health (SAMH) Program office is recognized as the single state authority for substance abuse and mental health services. Florida State Hospital (FSH) is a mental health treatment facility owned and operated by the State of Florida and is part of the Department of Children and Families. The department's mission is to "work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency."

This is a highly responsible and professional position serving as the Senior Physician Primary Care within Clinical Services. The ideal candidate will be a collaborative team player who works seamlessly across all sections within the program office. This role requires the use of independent judgment, a proactive approach to responsibilities, and exceptional attention to detail. If you are driven, organized, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Evaluates patients in the Emergency Room providing care ranging from routine or minor to critical, i.e., cardiac arrest and severe head trauma.
• Patients that are best handled in general referral hospitals are stabilized first, then transferred after consultation with the appropriate specialist.
• Admits patients to the medical ward after doing comprehensive evaluations.
• Acts as consultant in problematic cases in other units.
• Leads the Code Blue Team in treating critically ill patients hospital-wide.
• Teaches nursing and ancillary staff the proper use of medical equipment, treatment procedures and general health care.
• Serves as active member of different hospital medical committees.
• Screens for potential health problems.
• Performs physical examinations on new employees.
• Writes transfer summaries for patients discharged from the medical unit (Unit 31)
• Provides treatment of patients in the medical ward (Unit 31) until discharge criteria are satisfactory.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by supervisor.

Knowledge, skills and abilities required for the position:

• Demonstrates diagnostic competence by utilizing appropriate physical and psychiatric examinations based on current ICD 9/DSM IV criteria within the time frames and guidelines specified in the DCF/FSH policies.
• Chooses treatment based on current National Standards of Medical and Psychiatric care, on admission and when indicated by changes in the resident's condition.

Minimum qualifications:

• Licensure as a physician pursuant to Chapter 458, Florida Statutes, and two years of post-licensure professional experience in the practice of medicine; or
• Licensure as an osteopathic physician pursuant to Chapter 459, Florida Statutes, and two years of post-licensure professional experience in the practice of osteopathic medicine; or
• Certification by a recognized board in a medical specialty area can substitute for the required experience.

Location: Chattahoochee, FL, US, 32324