Family Physician
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Job Description
$20000 Sign on Bonus (for fulltime)
JOIN THE CHC FAMILY!
Community Health Connections (CHC) is a multisite nonprofit health care center offering urgent care primary family medical and pediatric care preventative and restorative dental care oral surgery behavioral health services for children and adults and substance use disorder treatment and specialty services including optometry eye care optical shop acupuncture nutrition consultations and podiatry. CHC is missiondriven providing compassionate quality health care regardless of income or health insurance status. CHC has five sites within Fitchburg Gardner and Leominster with decades of experience as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving 36 communities in North Central Massachusetts.
Under the direction of the Medical Director provides comprehensive and continuous primary care to a panel of patients.
Job Description:
- Provide primary care services to individuals and families.
- Practice within the collaborative model with nurse practitioners and clinical psychologists;
- Provide and manage direct patient care including physical examinations evaluations assessments diagnoses and treatment for a specified patient population;
- Prescribe pharmaceuticals other medications and treatment regimens as appropriate to assessed medical conditions;
- Refer patients to specialists and to relevant patient care components as appropriate;
- Direct and coordinate the patient care activities of nursing and support staff as required;
- Follow established departmental policies procedures and objectives continuous quality improvement objectives and safety environmental and/or infection control standards;
- As appropriate to the position participate in specified health promotion education and/or prevention programs;
- Observe assess and record symptoms reactions and progress;
- Participate in On Call coverage;
- Prescribe drug dosages and instruct patients in correct usage and nonpharmaceutical patient care aids;
- Maintain quality safety and/or infection control standards;
- Develop and present educational programs and/or workshops;
- Advise and train subordinate clinical professionals and/or students in area of expertise;
- Manage patient care is a team effort that involves clinical and nonclinical staff interacting with patients; and
- Perform other jobrelated duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
- Medical Degree (MD or DO)
- Board certification/eligibility in Family Medicine
- Current licensure by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine
- ACLS or CPR/AED certified.
- Current DEA DEAX and Massachusetts Controlled Substance licensure for prescriptive authority
- Eligible for unrestricted health center and hospital privileges at facilities utilized by the health center.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
Benefits:
- 401k
- Generous vacation and personal time for eligible employees
- Sick time
- Medical dental and vision insurance
- 100% paid Life insurance/AD&D
- 100% paid LongTerm disability.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounts on travel and entertainment!
- Discounts on cell phone service computer purchases and more!
- College Tuition Rewards/CMEs
- Company Events & Activities (Annual cookout and holiday party health and wellness events Lunch & Learns team building and more!)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- EyeMed Vision Care Program
- Accident & Cancer Insurance
- Educational development reimbursement
- Discounts on gym membership travel & entertainment tickets electronics and more!
Employment Type
Full-Time
