Physician - Pediatrician or Family Practice

Job Opportunity At Contentnea Health

Contentnea Health is a Community Health Center providing comprehensive medical, dental and behavioral health services for members of our communities in Greene, Pitt and Pamlico counties in eastern North Carolina.

Job Summary

Practices outpatient medicine.

Responsibilities And Duties

The physician will:

1. Practice medical care for each patient visit.

• Completes pertinent history and physical exam.
• Documents chief complaint, history of present illness, pertinent review of systems, and physical exam in electronic health record ("EHR").
• Reviews and updates past medical history, family history, social history, medications, and allergies in EHR.
• Reviews vital signs.
• Reviews results and reports from prior orders.
• Places new orders.
• Performs and documents procedures.
• Administers medications and immunizations.
• Determines and documents assessment and plan.
• Prescribes medications.
• Provides patient education, guidance, and counseling.
• Arranges plan for follow-up.
• Signs EHR encounter within timelines in established policies and procedures.
• Responds to related patient questions or needs which arise following encounter.
• Adheres to established scheduling templates in provision of patient care.

1. Participate in quality metrics directives and departmental quality improvement (QI) projects.

• Attends practitioners' meetings regularly.
• Attends clinical site meetings regularly.
• Attends practice-wide meetings regularly.
• Reads emails and other platforms of communication within organization.
• Completes peer review.
• Complies with Clinical Quality Measures expectations.
• Uses resources to verify standards of care.
• Modifies workflows as determined by department to attain QI objectives.
• Consistently documents activities related to QI projects.

1. Participate in on-call patient care rotation.

• Maintains availability to receive phone calls throughout dates of on-call service.
• Responds to on-call contact within timelines in established policies and procedures.
• Documents on-call patient care in EHR.
• Notifies patient's primary care physician of on-call patient care.

1. Supervises Advanced Practice Practitioners (APPs).

• Maintains supervisory agreement with each APP under supervision.
• Maintains availability to respond to clinical questions raised by APP.
• Performs regular chart review of APP and provides feedback when indicated.
• Participates in Quality Improvement (QI) meetings with supervisees consistent with licensing board requirements for APP.
• Communicates scheduling changes, such as planned PTO, with APP and Back-Up Supervising Physicians in order to ensure APPs will have coverage at all times.

Qualifications And Skills

• Graduate of an accredited school of Medicine and completion of Residency training
• Current licensure as a Physician in good standing with the North Carolina Medical Board.
• Current Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) licensure.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.