Job Description

A Physician Assistant provides primary care services, including assessing and managing patients in the clinic following established standards and practices of the clinic. The position combines the roles of provider, mentor, educator, researcher and administrator. The Physician Assistant must honor the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Physician Assistant guidelines and ethical standards. The PA must at all times comply with applicable standards and exercise appropriate care to protect confidentiality, privacy and security of patient protected health information. The employee must perform all other duties as assigned.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

This position reports to Director of NP/PA Services. This position has no direct reports.

DUTIES & ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
While living and demonstrating our Core Values, the Physician Assistant will:

• Examine and treat patients
• Instruct and counsel patients. Communicate clearly and effectively with patients and other health-care workers
• Interpret diagnostic test results including to assess and identify deviations from normal.
• Make and assist with diagnoses and decisions about management and treatment of patients
• Obtain, compile and record patient medical data, including health history, progress notes and results of physical examination
• Order diagnostic tests, such as x-ray, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests.
• Prescribe therapy or medication, with physician approval as appropriate.
• Perform therapeutic procedures, such as injections (excluding hip joint injections/aspirations), immunizations, suturing and minor/superficial wound care, and infection management
• Instruct and counsel patients about prescribed therapeutic regimens, normal growth and development, family planning, emotional problems of daily living, and health maintenance.
• Provide physicians with assistance during medical procedures as needed.
• Visit and observe patients as needed on hospital rounds or house calls, updating charts, ordering therapy, and reporting back to physician
• Complete documents, charts, triages etc., in accordance with organization’s open document policy
• Commit to thirty-six (36) hours of patient care per week and four (4) hours of administrative time, when there is an adequate number of providers, with the specific schedule to be determined with Medical Director and Practice Manager
• Satisfy expectation of zero charts overdue > 10 days and no more than 100 at end of month
• Participate in weekly call schedule, one-week night per week with physician as backup.
• Participate in Saturday or Sunday rotation (one weekend day per month at TWCCH – MVP)
• Participate in holiday rotation, including to work 1-2 holidays per year
• Work additional hours/days to cover colleague time off and staffing emergencies as needed.
• Participate in nursing home rounds as needed

SUPERVISION:

With respect to the duties and responsibilities of the Physician Assistant as described in this Position Description:

• The duties and tasks will be performed in an outpatient office
• Daily onsite direct and indirect supervision will be provided to the Physician Assistant at the outpatient office; the supervising physician will be at a minimum available to the Physician Assistant via telecommunication; if the supervising physician is not available to the Physician Assistant, a back-up supervising physician, the substitute Physician Assistant supervisor will be identified for the consultation and direction of the PA’s activities.
• The supervising physician will see patients at the request of the PA, the patient, and/or the patient’s family
• The supervising physician will review and sign medical records of the patients cared for by the PA within 10 days

Requirements

• Meet The Wright Center for Community Health and its affiliated Enterprise entities’ EOS People Analyzer Tool
• Buy in and experience working in the EOS® model (strongly preferred)
• Mission-oriented; represents the enterprise in a professional manner while demonstrating organizational pride
• Physician Assistant Degree from an accredited educational program for physician assistants
• Certification by NCCPA
• Licensed Physician Assistant in the State of Pennsylvania
• Valid DEA Registration Certificate
• Demonstrated expertise in relevant medical practices, protocol, trends and best practices in clinical areas assigned.
• Demonstrated knowledge and success in effecting overall clinical operations
• Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and emergency situations successfully.
• Proficiency in knowledge of office management, use of computer, software, and office machines
• Familiarity with electronic health records, preferably Medent
• Current BLS, ACLS and PALS certified
• Valid PA driver’s license