Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Why Join Advance Community Health

Life in the Triangle, with the Atlantic Ocean only two hours to the east and the Blue Ridge Mountains 3.5 hours to the west, living and working in the Triangle area gives you the best life has to offer.

Advance Community Health (ACH) proudly offers employment opportunities in multiple locations throughout the Triangle, including Raleigh, Apex, Cary, and Fuquay-Varina! Our Raleigh office, conveniently located less than 6 minutes from the heart of Downtown Raleigh, gives you easy access to some of the best food and entertainment the Triangle has to offer! No matter who you are, the Triangle offers everything you need to live a happy, fulfilling life!

Benefits Offered

• Company paid Medical for Employee and two dependents.
• Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan company match
• All employees receive their Birthday Off
• One Floating Holiday
• NHS Loan Forgiveness program

Position Summary

Advance Community Healthcare, an FQHC, is recruiting a full-time Pediatric Physician. Pediatric Physicians at Advance Community Health are expected to provide quality acute and routine health care maintenance to patients in the first decades of life and serve as Advance’s experts in general pediatric medicine, growth and development monitoring and childhood immunization tracking.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Pediatric clinicians are expected to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as an ability to relate to children and:

• Maintain focus on service to patients.
• Demonstrate appropriate knowledge of common pediatric medical problems and relevant therapies.
• Appropriately order and follow-up on routine health maintenance, such as immunizations, growth and development, developmental delays, nutritional needs, and childhood fitness.
• Demonstrate appropriate chronic disease management from a primary care standpoint (i.e. asthma, ADHD, seizures, cerebral palsy, chronic and functional abdominal pain, headaches, common congenital heart abnormalities and hemoglobinopathies). including medication management, laboratory testing and follow-up.
• Demonstrate appropriate post-acute care of recently hospitalized patients.
• Accurately document clinical visits in the EHR and complete notes in a timely fashion.
• Submit accurate charges in a timely fashion (including timely response to queries and questions from the billing and coding department).
• Involve social worker and ancillary staff, including nursing, care management, and medical assistants appropriately.
• Address patient calls and requests in a timely fashion, including requests from pharmacies, home health, etc.)
• Participates in regularly scheduled provider meetings and committees.
• Appropriately supervises midlevel providers (when applicable) including periodic chart review and Quality initiatives.

Other Duties Assigned

• Maintain CME/credentialing/licensure in compliance with state and board requirements.

Supervisory Responsibility

• Medical Assistants, RN, NP, LPN

Education and Experience

• Physicians: A Medical degree and the successful completion of a residency or fellowship in pediatrics.
• Completion of an accredited residency program in pediatrics.
• Board Certified/Eligible
• Active North Carolina medical license to practice pediatrics.
• Current DEA license

Preferred Skills

• Bilingual (English/Spanish)
• Proficient with EMR systems and clinical documentation
• A caring and compassionate nature when working with children and their families.
• Strong decision-making, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills.
• Good organizational, leadership, and teamworking skills.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities, as listed in this position description, are not exhaustive. The Organization, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills and/or education will also be considered, so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Position Description. The Organization, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms.

Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm
8 hours per day excluding breaks.

Job Tags

Full time, Contract work, Work at office, Monday to Friday,

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