Job Description - Physician Assistant AdventHealth Medical Group Gastroenterology_
**Top Reasons to Work at AdventHealth Medical Group**
**•** **Rollover PDO with service year increases in accrual**
**•** **Comprehensive benefits package; including tuition reimbursement and matching 403b plan**
**•** **Patient facing positions receiving company paid initial sets of scrubs**
**•** **Company Discount programs**
**•** **Growing Organization**
**Work Hours/Shift:**
Full Time
**KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:**
**•** **Complies with Employee Code of Conduct**
**•** **Demonstrates compliance with all federal, state and local laws; rules and government regulations**
**•** **Verbalizes understanding of reporting process of any actual or perceived violation**
**•** **Recognizes incidents as defined and described in the Hospital’s Institutional Policies and Procedures**
**•** **Understands the method and reasoning for reporting incidents**
**•** **Demonstrates ability to complete the Hospital’s Incident Report Form**
**•** **Assists the Department Manager or others in recognizing and reducing risk within the Department or other areas of the Hospital**
**•** **Demonstrates FHT PRIDE (Personal Responsibility in Daily Endeavors) by providing courteous service, assisting lost guests, and problem solving to meet special needs or requests**
**•** **Creates positive image by demonstrating a professional manner in all encounters**
**•** **Takes initiative to identify problems and assist with problem resolution while maintaining confidentiality at all times**
**•** **Acknowledges employees, physicians and visitors promptly**
**•** **Develops positive working relationships with other functional team/members within the Hospital**
**•** **Performs duties in a timely manner and provides updates if delays occur**
**•** **Communicates with courtesy when interacting with internal or external customers, in person or on the telephone**
**•** **Demonstrates respect for co-workers and develops positive working relationships with other departments**
**•** **Participates in Quality Improvement activities to improve processes and patient care**
**•** **Implements actions, as appropriate, recommended by Quality Improvement teams and the hospital wide Quality Coordinating Council**
**•** **Participates in Performance Improvement activities to improve processes and patient care**
**•** **Implements actions, as appropriate, recommended by Performance Improvement activities and hospital-wide Performance Improvement Coordinating Council (PICC)**
**•** **Follows hospital and departmental Safety policies and procedures**
**•** **Wears name tag identification and is aware of role in minimizing Security incidents**
**•** **Demonstrates knowledge of role in Hazardous Materials and Waste Program, including procedures to follow in case of spill**
**•** **Demonstrates knowledge of role in Emergency Preparedness Program. Participates in Disaster Drills, as appropriate**
**•** **Demonstrates knowledge of role in the Life Safety Program and participates in Fire Drills as appropriate**
**•** **Demonstrates knowledge of role in the Medical Equipment Program and how to report malfunctioning equipment**
**•** **Demonstrates knowledge of role in the Utility Systems Program and the department’s response to utility failure**
**•** **Follows hospital and departmental Infection Control policies and procedures**
**•** **Demonstrates effective communication skills with all team members, patients and families**
**•** **Maintains satisfactory participation and attendance at required and non-required meetings and staff development programs**
**•** **Demonstrates evidence of continuous professional development**
**o** **Identifies own learning needs and seeks opportunities for self growth and career advancement**
**o** **Attends annual mandatory inservice, required meetings and continuing education**
**•** **Promotes the hospital image and maintains a helpful attitude towards employees, physicians patients, visitors and the community to enhance the hospital’s reputation as a health care center**
**•** **Demonstrates evidence of adherence to the hospital confidentiality policy**
**•** **Provides occupational health to all employees, regardless of age, race or sex. Patient population includes workers of all ages, from adolescence through the geriatric population**
**•** **Examines and rechecks patients for medical problems prior to return to work after illness or injury. Plans referrals to physician specialists when indicated**
**•** **Incorporates patients work with company’s light duty policy in determining physical fitness for job duty**
**•** **Examines and rechecks patients for medical problems prior to return to work after illness or injury. Returns patients to their job as soon as medically advisable**
**•** **Assists Medical Director with development and ongoing revision of medical policies and procedures**
**•** **Assures that continued medical care remains within the UCH provider clinic unless a change is authorized by the MCC-PCP**
**•** **Works with the MCC-PCP to assure that all referrals for specialty care by MCC-PCP are made within the participating network providers unless specific care is not available in that network**
**•** **Assists Medical Director in review of data for Quality Improvement**
**•** **Produces appropriate medical records**
**•** **Assists Medical Director in the implementation and management of the Quality Assurance Program**
**•** **The PA’s role, scope of practice and legal requirements**
**•** **Provider’s specialty area as it applies to Occupational Medicine.**
**•** **Scope of prescriptive and dispensing authority**
**•** **Medical terminology.**
**•** **Laboratory practices and procedures.**
**•** **Principles and medical practices in an Occupational Practice.**
**•** **Anatomy and Physiology**
**•** **Occupational and safety hazards**
**•** **Communicable diseases and their control and treatment.**
**•** **Physical assessment and analysis**
**•** **Problem solving and documentation**
**•** **Initiating the appropriate emergency response**
**•** **Performing or ordering and interpreting routine diagnostic laboratory tests.**
**•** **Working with diverse individuals and cultures.**
**•** **Handling a number of tasks simultaneously.**
**•** **Translating health information to patients.**
**•** **Assisting or consulting with physicians**
Qualifications
**·** **EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:**
**·** **As required for licensure**
**·** **Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant studies.**
**·** **Combination education and experience that will provide the knowledge, skill and ability to demonstrate the following:**
**·** **Recognize the signs and symptoms of disease, while understanding their relationship to each other.**
**·** **Obtain, organize and construct a patient data base which accurately describes the information available for a given patient at a given point in time.**
**·** **Develop a problem list from the patient data base.**
**·** **Apply problem-solving techniques on clinical situations.**
**·** **Manage common health problems with physician supervision.**
**·** **Communicate empathetically with patient and knowledgeably with the physician.**
**·** **Competently perform technical procedures.**
**·** **Obtain brief, as well as comprehensive, patient histories, with an emphasis on occupation and exposure.**
**·** **Perform complete or focused physical examination as indicated.**
**·** **Select appropriate diagnostic studies in the evaluation of patients.**
**·** **Identify the potential relationship between patient symptoms and occupational/environmental exposures.**
**·** **Diagnose and manage occupational//environmental illnesses and injuries, with the use of consultants in related disciplines when indicated.**
**·** **Identify non-occupational/environmental factors that may contribute to occupational/environmental disease or injury.**
**·** **Refer and follow up or manage patients with serious occupational or environmental injuries and illnesses.**
**·** **Elicit patients’ concerns about exposures and establish a therapeutic alliance incorporating risk communication.**
**·** **Report all findings to affected individuals and pertinent information to organizations and employers as appropriate (considering medical confidentiality issues), advocating for the health and safety of patients and employees.**
**·** **Evaluate and treat medical conditions commonly seem in an OEM practice.**
**·** **Apply clinical practice guidelines in one’s practice.**
**Category:** Physician Services
**Organization:** AdventHealth Medical Group West FL
**Schedule:** Full-time
**Shift:** 1 - Day
**Req ID:** 23033820
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not tolerate discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age or disability/handicap with respect to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion, wages, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment.
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