PHYSICIAN - MSHP

Overview Physician MSHP – Montefiore School Health Program. The School Health Physician for the School Health Program is a clinical role within the Montefiore Health System, delivering comprehensive, high-quality primary care services within school-based health centers for pediatric and adolescent patients. Location: Bronx, New York. Grant Funded: No. Department: MMG - School Health. Work Shift: Day. Work Days: MON-FRI. Scheduled Hours: 8 AM-4 PM. Scheduled Daily Hours: 8. Responsibilities Direct Clinical Care: Provide comprehensive clinical primary care services, serving as a specialist in the assessment, evaluation, management, and treatment of pediatric and adolescent patients to meet quality and performance standards. Clinic Operations & Efficiency: Collaborate with site administration to assess and increase clinic efficiency and productivity, offering physician insights to optimize daily health center operations and process flow. Quality Improvement: Actively participate in program-wide Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives, providing monthly analyses of priority QI projects at the assigned site and supporting effective implementation. Service Access & Patient Outreach: Design and implement targeted service access activities to identify and engage students who need care, tracking and meeting set monthly benchmarks for increased patient access. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate with multi-disciplinary clinical teams (Senior Clerks, LPNs, RNs, Psychologists, Social Workers, Dentists, and Optometrists) to ensure patients have comprehensive access to care. Stakeholder Relations: Maintain communication with parents and guardians for clinical input and consent, and build collaborative relationships with school staff, teachers, and leadership. Emergency Response: Balance routine health center flow with occasional requests from the school to respond to patient emergencies within the school building. Professional Engagement: Maintain weekly communication with supervisors regarding health center needs and site interventions, and attend required departmental meetings. Requirements Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from an accredited medical program required. Successful completion of an accredited residency program in Pediatrics or Family Medicine. Valid, unrestricted New York State Medical License with up-to-date registration. Current, valid Federal DEA license. Clinical Expertise: Deep knowledge of best-practice, high-quality primary health care delivery tailored to children and adolescents ages 3 to 20+. Specialized Competency: Demonstrated ability to provide counseling, prescriptions, and monitoring of reproductive health interventions in compliance with New York State laws and MSHP policies. System & Analytical Skills: Ability to troubleshoot clinic processes, make actionable improvement recommendations, and maintain proficiency with clinical tracking and electronic health records. Standardized Judgment: Ability to function under standardized practices, exercising sound judgment with minimal daily instruction while collaborating under the Medical Director. Physical & Environmental Requirements: Ability to perform light work (sitting, standing, walking) in a school-based health center; ability to lift up to 20 pounds occasionally. Shift: Monday to Friday, 08:00 AM – 04:00 PM. Equal Opportunity Employer statement is retained in the original description and is not expanded in this refined version. #J-18808-Ljbffr