What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physician Assistant position at Fast Pace Health?
The Family Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant at Fast Pace Health delivers high-quality healthcare in both clinical and telehealth settings, ensuring optimum patient satisfaction and compliance with clinical protocols. This role involves leading clinic staff, conducting patient assessments, and providing compassionate medical care while adapting to new technologies.
Job Description
In a manner consistent and supportive of our values, the Provider is responsible for delivering high-quality health care within Fast Pace Health's scope of services while achieving optimum patient satisfaction. The Provider must be able to work in a team-oriented environment, be flexible to adapt to new technologies and protocols in a quickly evolving practice setting.
The Provider must have the ability to respond quickly and accurately to changes in condition or response to treatment and is responsible for providing outstanding patient service within the clinic and through various virtual communication channels, while maintaining a compassionate and welcome atmosphere.
Why Choose Fast Pace Health?
Fast Pace Health is a growing company. We will help you grow your clinical competencies, and can offer you a rewarding career path. We work as a dynamic team to surpass our business goals by ensuring our patients receive the best care possible in a positive environment.
We Offer:
Competitive compensation and benefits such as holiday pay, PTO, medical, dental, vision and Work-Life balance, to name a few.
As a Fast Pace Health employee, you will have the opportunity to participate in community events and outreach programs. This includes, but is not limited to, seasonal parades, book drives, festivals, trunk or treating, fun runs, and more.
We dress up for holidays and celebrate with pot lucks. At Fast Pace, our community is our family, and we are a family-first community.
Responsibilities:
- Ability to provide quality care in both clinic and telehealth and meet patient volume goals targeted for tele and in-patient as determined.
- Lead clinic staff, in behaviors, actions, and attitude (e.g. X-Ray Technologists, Nurses, and Front Office Specialists) in delivering excellent patient care.
- Provide guidance as necessary to ensure quality professional services and patient satisfaction.
- Discuss and review patients' medical history, symptoms, allergies, and current medications.
- Ask patients situation-specific questions to formulate accurate diagnoses in order to provide guidance as necessary to ensure quality professional services and patient satisfaction.
- Actively engage with clinical leadership, elevating to management where appropriate to ensure strong patient care and resolution of concerns to ensure adherence to our company values.
- Implement clinical and Telehealth protocols as outlined CMO and Supervising Physicians.
- Deliver excellent patient care through in-patient and virtual diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations with attention to patient-centric care, safety, cost, and reliably accurate information.
- Ensure that the activities of the Provider are conducted in a manner that is consistent with overall department expectations and are in compliance with Federal and State regulations, guidelines, and requirements including working knowledge of all health information management issues such as HIPAA.
- Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced, autonomous environment within both in-patient clinic and virtual settings.
- Ability to pursue queue of telehealth patients in a timely fashion to ensure proper patient follow-up.
- Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests, as well as responsibly prescribe medications and educate patients on continued treatment and care of acute and chronic conditions.
- Attest and follow clinical practice guidelines by the Office of Medical Affairs.
- Attend Mandatory monthly meetings with Supervising physicians and E/M training.
- Responsible for learning the aspects of compliance in the company by completing all mandatory compliance training in order to meet and exceed our continued quality of care.
- Ability to adhere to the Core Values of the Company, of teamwork, communication, empowerment, quality of care, and friendliness.
- Recommends ideas within the clinic and to telehealth leadership as appropriate to improve overall patient experience and care.
- Communicates regularly within team in all manners necessary to support excellent patient care.
- Welcome new employees on their first day in the clinic and facilitate introductions to team members, clinic tours, and an overview of the clinic processes.
- Actively assist new employees with learning activities and completing required training.
- Support new employee training by providing job shadowing, demonstration, and coaching opportunities.
- Ability to be knowledgeable and comply with Company standards of operations.
- The ability to consult with patients through virtual communication channels.
- Proven experience working as a Telehealth Clinician.
Experience Requirements:
- Nurse practitioner with over 10 years of experience; Physician's assistant with over 10 years of experience as a physician's assistant.
- Nurse practitioner with over 5 years of experience and less than 10 years of experience; Physician's assistant with over 5 years of experience and less than 10 years of experience as a physician's assistant.
- Nurse practitioner with over 1 years of experience and less than 5 years of experience; Physician's assistant with over 1 years of experience and less than 5 years of experience as a physician's assistant.
- New Grad with up to 1 years of experience as a nurse practitioner; new grad Physician's Assistant with up to 1 years of experience as a physician's assistant.
Education:
Master's Degree in Nursing (MSN) and/or master's degree in Physician Assistant Studies
(Experience: At least 1-2 years of experience as a provider in a relevant practice, such as Urgent Care or Occupational Medical Facility, ER or Trauma Unit, Family Medical Practice is strongly preferred)
Licenses and Certifications:
License and DEA must be active, in good standing, and verifiable with the proper regulatory agency. Providers must be able to treat all ages and must meet any credentialing requirements needed; and DOT certification is required to be obtained by FT and PT Providers within 120 days of employment and maintained during employment.
Credentials:
Family Nurse Practitioner License, Physicians Assistant License
Core Values:
Teamwork, Communication, Empowerment, Quality of Care, Friendliness