Express Care Physician's Assistant-Certified

Job Description

Job Description

Position Summary: The Express Care Provider delivers high-quality, patient-centered care for individuals with acute illnesses and minor injuries in a fast-paced ambulatory setting. The provider evaluates, diagnoses, and treats patients across the lifespan, performs procedures within scope of practice, and collaborates with physicians and interdisciplinary team members to ensure efficient, evidence-based care. This role offers flexible scheduling opportunities, including 10-hour and 12-hour shifts, with weekday, evening, and/or weekend coverage rotations as needed. 

Role Qualifications:
Education: Graduate from an ARC-PA accredited physician assistant program
State license
BCLS certification required
ACLS certification preferred
National Provider Identifier (NPI)
DEA Number

Experience:  1-2 years’ experience in both Adult and Pediatric settings

Location: Attendance required at assigned CHDC site(s) as needed or required.

Position Responsibilities:
Clinical: 

• Evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients presenting with acute, episodic, and non-life-threatening illnesses and injuries.
• Manage a broad range of conditions, including upper respiratory infections, influenza, urinary tract infections, rashes, sprains, strains, lacerations, minor fractures, and other common urgent care conditions.
• Order, perform, and interpret diagnostic testing including laboratory studies, point-of-care testing, and EKGs, as appropriate.

•  Perform procedures within scope of practice, including:
• Laceration repair, abscess incision and drainage, splinting and immobilization, removal, wound care, and other minor office-based procedures.
• Responds to emergencies and answers medical questions. 
• Obtains and documents appropriate chief complaint, past medical, family, and social history, review of systems, examination, medications and allergies, assessment, and plan for each patient. 
• Provides medical orders for prescriptions, administration of medications, ancillary testing, and/or referrals. 
• Reviews ancillary test results and coordinates notification to the patient. 
• Provides patient education as needed. 
• Available to patients personally or through clinical staff to answer questions and relay information regarding their care. 
• Completion of all documentation and paperwork in a timely manner. 

Medical Administrative:

• Participates in public relations and community outreach activities, as center shall from time-to-time reasonably request.
• Provide assistance with OSHA, emergency preparedness, infection control, and regulatory compliance.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.

Organizational:

• Adheres to the organization’s mission, vision, and values.
• Adheres to the organization’s policies regarding time and attendance.
• Comply with accepted dress code and maintain a professional image.
• Demonstrates reliability and trustworthiness.
• Manages time and other resources to meet established goals within the agreed time. 
• Demonstrates flexibility in the acceptance and completion of work assignments.
• Participates in the department’s performance improvement activities.
• Maintains patient/employee confidentiality in the management of information.
• Observes the Health Care System’s compliance policies.
• Demonstrates a strong attention to detail.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Previous family practice or urgent care experience preferred. 
• CPR, and all applicable certifications required (must be obtained within 90 days of employment).
• Understands ethics of confidentiality.
• Previous computer experience or training preferred.
• Successful candidates must submit to TB testing and any vaccinations recommended by OSHA Guidelines.

Physical demands & work environment:  The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

•  Physical demands: While performing duties of job, employees are occasionally required to stand; walk; sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear. Employees must occasionally lift and/; or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

•  Mental Demands : Stressful due to time constraints and multiple tasks/procedures occurring at the same time. 
•  Work environment : The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
•  Manual Dexterity Required : Must be able to manipulate small electronic parts and controls.

Compliance Provision:

• This position requires compliance with Health Center’s written standards, including its Standards of Conduct and policies and procedures (“Written Standards”). Such compliance will be an element considered as part of the employee’s regular performance evaluation. 
• Failure to comply with Health Center’s Written Standards, which may include the failure to report any conduct or event that potentially violates legal or compliance requirements or Health Center’s Written Standards, will be met by the enforcement of disciplinary action, up to and including possible termination, in accordance with Health Center’s Compliance Program Policy and Procedure: Addressing Instances of Non-Compliance Through Appropriate Disciplinary Actions.

Americans with Disabilities Act Statement:
External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job specific functions (listed within each job specific responsibility) either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by the organization on a case-by-case basis.

General sign-off: The employee is expected to adhere to all company policies and to act as a role model in the adherence to policies.

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