What are the responsibilities and job description for the Family Physician position at Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers?
Job Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
- Provides primary health care services to adults and children, emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention as well as diagnosis and management of acute and chronic health conditions.
- Provides comprehensive primary care including inpatient services and after-hours coverage.
- Provides wellness care for adults and children including screening and immunizations.
- Teaches health promotion, wellness, and disease prevention.
- Diagnoses and, in partnership with the patient, manages acute and chronic health conditions.
- Orders, conducts, and interprets diagnostic studies and laboratory tests.
- Prescribes medication.
- Prepares and maintains medical patient reports and records.
- Participates in the development of medical policies, procedures, and medical standards of care.
- Participates in the evaluation of the care given.
- Participates in the training of nurse practitioners, medical students, and medical residents.
- Participates in clinic staffing, Quality Assurance Committee meetings, and Total Quality Management trainings and work groups as requested.
Qualifications:
- Licensed as a physician in the State of Wisconsin.
- Completion of Family Practice Residency from an accredited Family Medicine Program.
- Board certification or eligibility for Board Certification in Family Practice.
- Insurable for liability coverage as a Family Practitioner
- Working knowledge of the social and cultural factors associated with the community’s use of social and health care services.
- Ability to understand patient attitudes and needs, develop and orient program goals and concepts accordingly, and work effectively toward their accomplishment with all staff members.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, officials, the public, patients, other private and public organizational representatives, health care personnel, and community groups and organizations.
- Ability to work under pressure, maintain personal composure, evaluate situations act/react appropriately, and use tact in dealing with visitors, patients, and difficult situations.
- Ability to identify and maintain confidential material.
- Ability to interpret and conform program operations to applicable laws, rules, regulations, and funding source requirements and according to acceptable standards.
- Spanish speaking preferred.
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