Physician

PHYSICIAN

(32 or 40 hours per week)

Are you passionate about helping the underserved?

Western North Carolina Community Health Services (WNCCHS) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). WNCCHS delivers patient care with a highly integrated team of family medicine practitioners, dentists, and behavioral health clinicians with on-site pharmacy services in a community health center setting.

We are looking for Primary Care Physician (PCP) to provide professional medical services to complement the delivery of integrated team-based, whole-person, trauma-informed primary health care services. The candidate may select a 32 or 40 hour schedule, both 32 and 40 hours per week are considered full time and are eligible for full benefits.

The Physician effectively collaborates with, and or delegates to members of the interdisciplinary health care team and provides clinical leadership and supervision to advanced practice nurses (APN) & physician assistants (PA), and indirect supervision of medical support staff.

RESPONSIBILITIES- Includes but not limited to the following :

• Assess, maintain and improve the health status of individuals in the communities served through timely access to evidence-based acute, preventive, and chronic disease care
• Serves as a role model of professionalism to all members of the interdisciplinary health care team. Collaborates with all Licensed Independent Practitioners (LIP) and Other Licensed Independent Practitioner (OLIP) including Physicians, APNs, PAs, Therapists, Dentists, etc., and clinical support staff to form a high performing team.
• Cultivates a climate of safety, trust and compassion for patients and colleagues
• Provides medical evaluation, treatment, and consultation services to patients of the clinic in a timely manner, including responding to emergencies and answering medical questions
• Provides high-value cost-conscious care; demonstrates good stewardship of resources by limiting unnecessary testing and referrals; and considers risks, benefits, and patient preferences when making diagnostic or therapeutic intervention decisions
• Documents all patient care activities and bills for all services provided in the electronic health record. Documentation must be clear, concise, accurate, updated, and in sufficient detail to allow another provider to continue the patient's care as well as to allow other parties to review the safety and quality of care provided

QUALIFICATIONS :

Education and Training :

Certifications / Licensure :

Additional skills preferred :

WORK / LIFE BENEFITS

FINANCIAL WELL-BEING BENEFITS

CAREER GROWTH BENEFITS

Western North Carolina Community Health Services is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, services, programs, or activities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Salary based on 40 hours a week : $187,200 to $201,760

Hourly range $90.00 to $97.00