Physician

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

POSITION TITLE:

Primary Care Physician

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Primary Care Physician is responsible for providing exceptional medical care to a unique panel of patients, diagnosing and treating illnesses, and developing treatment plans in collaboration with other Primary Care Team members. The desired candidate has a pleasant and welcoming personality and will support CHCFC’s mission, vision, and values, and contributes to a work environment that is caring, collaborative, and innovative.

REPORTS TO:

Provider Team Lead

FLSA STATUS:

Exempt

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Providing primary medical care to a unique panel of patients:
• Conducting physical examinations and medical assessments
• Diagnosing and treating illnesses and injuries
• Developing and implementing treatment plans
• Prescribing medications and other treatments
• Providing advice to patients regarding disease prevention and health promotion
• Collaborating with other healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive care
• Seeking appropriate consultation and clinical supervision as needed from colleagues, including transfer of patients exceeding professional skills, abilities, or comfort.
• Attending health center staff clinical team meetings
• Providing cross coverage for group practice patients during colleagues’ time off
• Documenting all patient care appropriately and legibly in the medical record
• Providing supervision for up to four mid-level providers within the practice
• Providing weekend, holiday, and night on-call coverage per group rotation schedule
• Performing other duties as required or assigned
  
  

REQUIRED SKILLS, EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

Education/license/certification:

• Medical degree from an accredited institution (M.D. or D.O.)
• Valid medical license
• Board certification in a relevant specialty
  
  

Experience:

• Primary care experience strongly preferred
• Experience in diagnosing and treating a wide range of illnesses and injuries
  
  

Skills:

• Excellent diagnostic and treatment skills
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work harmoniously with ethnically, culturally, racially, and gender diverse staff and patients.
• Proficiency in using electronic medical records and other healthcare technologies.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English. Bi-lingual English/Spanish, English/Haitian Creole, or English/Russian preferred.
  
  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, sit, use the hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. Must be able to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

While performing the required duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent when traveling between Health Center locations where medical care is provided. This position performs tasks that involve exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues.

This job description is subject to review in the light of changing circumstances and is not intended to be rigid and inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the employee works. Performs other duties as assigned.

Revised: November 11, 2024