Primary Care Physician (Family Practice) – Attleboro, Hull, Quincy and Taunton

The Family Practice Physician provides clinical services for Manet Community Health Center through serving as a Primary Care Provider for a panel of patients and as a team member with Midlevel Providers and various ancillary staff.

Minimum Skills, Experience and Educational Requirements:

• Medical Degree from an accredited University.
• Board Certification or eligibility in primary specialty.
• Licensed to practice Medicine in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• Board Certified in Family Medicine.
• Credentialed at Manet Community Health Center and affiliated hospitals.

Preferred Skills, Experience and Educational Requirements:

• Experienced in primary care group practice and/or community health center.

Critical Demands of the Job:

• Manage multiple requests and prioritise appropriately.
• Ability to function in a fast-paced setting with a variety of patients and staff.
• Attention to details and prompt follow up.
• Includes walking and standing for long periods of time, sitting for short periods of time, hand dexterity, clear hearing and speaking ability.
• Must be able to lift a maximum of 1/3 of their body weight.
• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates appropriate independence, collaboration, and professional judgement in delivery of primary health care.
• Demonstrates overall medical knowledge essential to Primary Care role.
• Demonstrates clinical competence in delivery of patient care, including appropriate referrals, admissions, prescriptions, and ancillary ordering.
• Knows appropriate health care maintenance and acute care protocols for all patient age groups.
• Documents information in patient care record in acceptable, legible format with reasonable completeness.
• Manages patient care in collaboration with other professional members of the team, consults appropriately, and supervises mid-levels as needed.
• Professionally meets share of call, hospital, and nursing home responsibilities.
• Demonstrates a commitment to meeting healthcare needs of patient panel.
• Incorporates and demonstrates understanding of Manet Community Health Center’s clinical policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates knowledge of, and uses of, Manet’s Electronic Medical Record System.
• Presents an acceptable appearance and arrives at health center punctually.
• Develops and maintains a good working relationship with staff members from all departments.
• Maintains accountability for continued enhancement of knowledge.
• Safeguards patient’s rights to privacy and respects patient choices regarding health care.
• Incorporates patient’s social and cultural backgrounds into delivery of health care.
• Participates in staff-oriented activities, including staff and site meetings, sub-committees.
• Maintains an acceptable level of productivity.
• Contributes to performance improvement in delivery of services through direct care and teamwork, and/or through committee participation.
• Performs other related job duties as needed or assigned.

Quality Indicators for Compensation Plan:

• Peer review – Provider must submit 20 per FTE peer review charts, acknowledge identified areas of their reviewed medical records that need improvement, and show progress on future peer review reports.
• Timeliness – charts should be completed at end of each day’s sessions; labs, diagnostic testing, and correspondence should be reviewed at each clinical session.
• Patient Satisfaction – Expect Provider to respond to patient complaints in timely manner, provide documentation of follow up, and participate in efforts to prevent future patient complaints.
• Performance Improvement (PI) – Expect each Provider to participate in some PI project, either site specific or for Manet in general.
• Committee Activity – Each Provider will be expected, when asked, to participate in committees dealing with advancing the goals of Manet.
• Outreach Activity – Each Provider should be available to participate in at least 1 outreach activity per year.
• Ancillary Staff Interaction – Each Provider will be expected to act in a collaborative manner with ancillary staff.
• Good Citizenship – Each Provider will be expected to willingly volunteer to fill shortages of Providers at other sites.
• Preventive Care – Provides annual health maintenance exams, provides age appropriate screenings, and follows up on patients lacking preventive and screening as per managed care contracts.

Working Conditions:

• Works in well-lighted environment with comfortable surroundings.
• Stressful at times due to competing demands, including attention to multiple patients and staff.
• Will comply with all applicable laws, and will cooperate with the Manet Community Health Center compliance program rules and regulations.

Required Availability:

• May be required to work a rotating schedule as the department requires, including evenings, holidays and weekends.