Advanced Practice Clinician
Advanced Practice Clinician
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$ 148946 - 181045
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Job Description
Salud Para La Gente (SALUD) provides high quality comprehensive and costeffective healthcare to underserved lowincome communities in the Monterey Bay area including Santa Cruz County and North Monterey County. We began in Watsonville in 1978 as a storefront free clinic. With the ever growing need for health services in 1992 we became a federally qualified community health center. Today we are a primary health care network with 11 clinic sites over 450 employees and continue to provide high quality services to patients of all ages.
Under the direction and supervision of the Director of Advanced Practice Clinicians the Advanced Practice Clinician provides basic medical care to clients in accordance with established protocols. Care includes diagnosing treating and providing preventive medical services to primarily lowincome Spanishspeaking farmworkers and their families. Adult pediatric and prenatal care and services for chronic illness are also provided. Incumbents may be assigned to Family Practice Womens Health Services or Pediatrics.
This position supports the organizations mission vision and values through excellence and competence collaboration innovation respect commitment to our community and accountability and ownership.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Performs direct patient care including historytaking physical examination appropriate diagnostic procedures therapy and followup under established protocols.
- Works in conjunction with the Clinic Manager to ensure optimal patient flow.
- Works with scheduling staff to ensure that midlevel provider productivity standards of an average of 2.5 patients per patient care hour is achieved at a minimum.
- Performs other medical services within the scope of privileges under physician supervision.
- Plans and initiates health maintenance and rehabilitation for each patient including methods such as special diets exercises vitamin supplements immunizations etc. as needed.
- Educates and counsels patient and/or family about normal developmental stages health management nutrition practices chronic diseases and medications etc. intervening where appropriate.
- Makes appropriate referrals to external and internal services for health and psychosocial needs including followup to ensure patient compliance.
- Institutes emergency measures in lifethreatening situations.
- May assist with the planning and staffing of offsite clinics.
- In conjunction with the Quality Improvement Committee helps develop and update protocols for services and participates in peer review.
- Becomes familiar with all clinical funding sources and contracted health plans; stays informed of patient care policies reimbursement practices and reporting requirements mandated by funding sources; works with administrative and fiscal staff to ensure that funding sources clinical program objectives and targeted outcomes are achieved;
- Documents patient encounters utilizing Electronic Health Records (EHR) as well as completes encounter notes and billing through EHR per Policy
- Participates in continuing education programs to remain current on professional development and practices and to maintain licensure.
- Attends and participates in all agency staff meetings quality assurance and team meetings.
- May be requested to maintain a flexible schedule and to fillin for other providers in the event of illness or vacation.
- Consistently adheres to and/or exceeds SPLGs communication guidelines and expectations with internal and external customers including coworkers patients and external partners.
- Assists physicians with completion of EHR tasks and paperwork for patients.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS:
Knowledge of: Principles and procedures used to detect diagnose and treat common and chronic health problems; medication and ; clinical significance of laboratory tests; medical laws and regulations especially within scope of licenser; ethics of patient care; basic interviewing and counseling techniques; community resources and referral systems; Latino cultural medical practices and beliefs.
Ability to: Assess health status with complete medical history and physical exam; identify and manage health problems; analyze and interpret data; write clear and concise medical reports; refer clients; recognize and evaluate situations which require physicians attention; communicate effectively and respectfully with people from different racial ethnic and cultural backgrounds and lifestyles demonstrating a knowledge of and sensitivity to their needs; maintain effective working relationships with agency staff clients other community agencies and the public; maintain a participatory work environment.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Current PA/NP license.
- CPR certification.
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS
- Bilingual Spanish/English highly preferred
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Standing walking sitting typing reaching bending moving and/or lifting up to 50 pounds.
SALARY & BENEFITS:
Salary: $148946.86$181045.83/year
Benefits: available to all regular Salud employees working 24 hours per week. Parttime employees may receive some benefits on a prorated basis.
- Medical Dental Vision and Life Insurance Plans
- Paid Time Off (PTO): 19 days per year
- Paid Holidays: 12 per year
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer contribution
- Voluntary LongTerm Disability
Additional Information:
- Employees on temporary assignments are eligible for holiday pay and California sick pay both prorated based on hours worked.
- Oncall employees are eligible for California sick pay prorated based on hours worked.
**Salud is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex disability age sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran status or genetic information. Salud is committed to providing access equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment its services programs and activities. To request reasonable accommodation contact the Salud Human Resources Departmentand **
Employment Type
Full-Time
