Job Opportunities

Provide clinic services ensuring they are covered by nursing personnel.

• Maintain clinic expertise and competency (including age specific competency) demonstrating thorough knowledge of procedures to deliver quality primary health care.

• Document delivery of health care and nursing processes in accordance with the Center’s policies and procedures in a timely, accurate, and consistent manner.

• Educate the patient and family about diagnosis and plan of care, acting as a resource for facilitating communication when necessary.

• Coordinate delivery of patient care provided by the health care team.

• Interact with personnel and assist providers, ensuring optimal patient care and patient flow to  increase patient satisfaction.

• Identify and respond promptly to changes in patient’s condition and/or clinic environment.

• Collaborate with administrative staff, nurses, and providers optimizing efficiency of a variety of related services ranging from patient care to follow up care.

• Ensure wait time of patients are minimal, patient referrals and prescribed medications are processed promptly, and patient confidentiality is maintained.

Provide clinic oversight of nursing personnel.

• Supervise, advise, counsel, discipline and evaluate nursing staff.

• Ensure nursing staff coverage, scheduling, and training with the new hire department.

• Ensure compliance with all standards of care, contract requirements, and policies and procedures related to the clinic’s accrediting and funding agencies.

• Monitor and maintain compliance of vaccines; medical equipment, and all logs ensuring all are updated and compliant.

• Participate in the evaluation of products, procedures, and patient care standards.

• Measure competency

• Assume responsibility/accountability for delegation of ensuring compliance with all standards of care, contract requirements, policies and procedures related to accrediting and funding agencies within the clinics are of responsibility.

• Work with (CMO) in the development of standard treatment protocols for disease conditions most prevalent in the Center’s patient population.

• Work with (CMO) to review and revise standard treatment protocols at least once a year to meet the medical needs of Center patients.

• Participate in Compliance and Performance Improvement activities for continuous quality improvement and risk management purposes.

• Serve as a resource and positive, proactive leader for the department.

• Accept responsibility for remaining current with nursing and health care trends and information impacting the nursing practice.

• Participate in collaboration with the health care team in identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing patient and family needs to develop a plan of care.

• Responsible for appropriate infection control and employee health programs including training staff, and monitoring compliance.

• Complete medical record and nursing documentation audits and implement system changes for the nursing staff as necessary.

• Travels when necessary to fulfill the entity’s needs and attends meetings as necessary to represent the Center.

• Participate in the preparation of grant applications for the Center and assumes primary responsibility for developing and implementing the medical health care plan.

• Assist in the coordination and integration of the corporation’s medical programs and services with other corporate programs and services for the welfare of the corporation’s patients.

• Assist in the provision of technical assistance and health education in the community as requested.

• Serve on the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and other committees as assigned.

• Demonstrates flexibility, enthusiasm and willingness to cooperate while working with others in assigned inter-professional care teams to support PCMH programmatic activities.

• Participate in population management activities, as directed.

• Assist the care team by helping to measure quality and identify, refine and implement practice improvements that support the medical home, and assist in performance evaluation and quality improvement.

• Apply the principles of comprehensive, community-based, patient-centered, developmentally appropriate, culturally and linguistically sensitive care.

Perform all other duties as assigned