Job Description
Job Description
Physician Assistant Needed ($150,000/yr)
Workforce1 Healthcare Career Center is partnering with top NYC healthcare providers to connect a qualified Physician Assistant to an immediate opening at a Clinic in Queens.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provides medical care to pediatric, adolescent and adult patients
- Takes relevant patient history
- Identifies patient needs and makes diagnoses
- Develops and implements treatment plans using diagnostic data
- Performs complete well-care examinations including physical examinations
- Performs complete gynecological histories and physical examinations as indicated
- Write prescriptions and inform patients about prescribed medications
- Completes medical forms and documentation related to patient care
- Makes and tracks all referrals to other agencies and providers, with follow-up care provided
- Assists with immunizations and/or phlebotomy, as needed, to ensure smooth patient flow
- Works collaboratively with physicians and specialists for consultation and referral purposes
- Meets with designated supervising physician on a regular and predetermined basis, to receive recommendations and collaborate towards delivering quality health care to patients, based on accepted standards of-care
- Participates in Peer Review process
- Encourages health promotion, disease prevention, and health maintenance. Provides health education on topics including but not limited to preventive medicine and counseling on chronic diseases, as well as parenting, prenatal, nutrition, family- planning, medication usage, and stress management
- Provides patient advocacy, as appropriate for the site
- Participates in patient outreach, as appropriate for the site
Minimum Qualifications:
- Unrestricted New York State Nurse Practitioner license
- Minimum of two years’ clinical experience preferable
- Familiarity with word processing and other computer applications
- Ability to speak Spanish and/or other languages preferable
Workforce1 Healthcare Career Center is a federally funded NYC program that prepares and connects qualified candidates to job opportunities citywide. We recruit licensed healthcare professionals on behalf of leading healthcare employers.