Job Type:

Full time / Permanent Hire

Job Description

We are looking a friendly, responsible, and compassionate Physician Assistant interested in joining our small but rapidly growing practice.

This Physician Assistant will work with our team to support the doctors’ work and actively facilitate patients’ treatment. You will apply medical techniques and principles under the direction of a physician, and you will deal with a diverse set of patients (cancer-related pain, back and neck pain, chronic pain, etc.). Our Physician Assistants are expected to provide specialized care by performing comprehensive assessments, ordering/reviewing diagnostic tests, developing treatment plans, pharmacologic management, and patient education. In this role you will also utilize skills to performing minor ultrasound and fluoroscopy office-based injections, assist with device implantation surgeries, and manage intrathecal pain pumps. Educational and professional growth is expected.

You will be joining a fun, patient focused practice that takes pride in delivering high quality care!

About Red Butte

Red Butte Healthcare was founded on the principle of helping patients bring quality back to their lives by providing safe, effective, evidence-based pain control. We have years of experience treating cancer pain, head and neck pain, back pain, joint pain, & nerve pain. While we treat all types of patients our practice is particularly focused on treating underserved cancer pain patients.

Red Butte employs cutting edge technology and focuses on the patient as our customer. We strive to provide all our patients care with the respect, care, and compassion they each deserve. As a patient focused practice, our team also strives to provide care as quickly as possible. We regularly have patients referred to us and seen the same day.

We are a small but growing office, and candidates must have a willingness to help in performing other job duties requested by your supervisor, including cross-training and accountability for other job responsibilities.

Expectations

We expect:

• Everyone on the Red Butte team to strive to provide the highest quality of care for our patients.
• All our team members to cultivate a climate of trust, compassion, and respect.
• All our team members to behave with honesty and integrity.
• That our practice always has room for improvement and all team members have a voice in those improvements
• Our team to be open, willing, and capable of training to develop new knowledge and skillsets to meet the needs required for this position

Responsibilities

• Bring a positive attitude and provide excellent customer service to each patient, daily
• Act professionally as demonstrated by appropriate attire, timeliness, attendance, attitude, and behavior within the clinical setting.
• Direct the patient's medical plan of care and leads the medical team in ensuring the patient has the best medical outcomes possible while experiencing extraordinary customer service
• Provide health care services under the direction and supervision of an assigned physician
• Review and discuss results of diagnostic imaging and laboratory studies with attending/supervising physician and with patient and their family as required
• Perform physical exams and diagnostic tests, establish a diagnosis, create a treatment plan, order imaging and /or additional studies as needed
• Provide patient care in person and via virtual/ tele-medicine methods
• Educate patients on procedures, diagnosis, and medications
• Prepare discharge summaries
• Prescribe appropriate medications and treatments based on diagnosis, best practices, and evidence-based guidelines; manage existing prescriptions; and evaluate interactions with patients’ current medications.
• Facilitate referrals to other providers
• Communicate with collaborating physician regarding patient care.
• Comply with medical care regulations, safety standards, and confidentiality requirements including HIPPA, etc.
• Ability to see 20-40 patients per day
• Assist attending surgeon in the operating room
• Maintain licensing and prescribing duties by ensuring renewals and required CME is complete
• Practice in a safe and compliant manner in accordance with practice policies and protocols as well as state and national regulatory licensing guidelines
• Take on call rotations: respond to calls received after hours and on weekends. Triage patient telephone calls and evaluate patient problems
• Address messages regarding patient concerns and questions.
• Provide Therapeutic injections (after sufficiently trained)
• Provide injections such as trigger point injections and joint injections per the capabilities of the provider (training will be provided, as needed)
• Willingness to learn the eClinicalWorks (eCW) EMR system
• Completely and accurately document patient history, diagnosis, and treatments in eCW with coding in accordance with requirements from insurance companies to ensure appropriate payment for services rendered

Unwritten Responsibilities: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. Employees may be required to follow other instructions and to perform other job duties requested by his/her supervisor, including cross-training and accountability for other job responsibilities.

Skills

• Ability to follow instructions
• Ability to multitask and critically think.
• Provide accurate and thorough documentation of the entire office visit in a timely manner
• Ability to build rapport with patient
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Strong time management
• Highly organized
• Gathering and analyzing physiological, socioeconomic, and emotional patient data
• Accurately evaluating patient problems in person or via phone and providing appropriate advice, intervention, or referral
• Evaluate and revise the care plan based on patient changes
• Ability to clearly communicate both in writing and verbally
• Self-motivated with a strong work ethic
• Knowledge of patient assessment techniques, including taking medical histories, physicals, evaluating health status including state of wellness and compliance with care recommendations
• Ability to lift 50lbs without bodily harm
• Ability to stand/bend/kneel with moderate frequency
• Willingness to learn additional skills, help where needed, and maintain certifications already held

Additional Skills – Preferred but not required

• Knowledge of ultrasound guidance
• Knowledge of fluoroscopic guidance

Qualifications

Graduate of accredited Physician Assistant program and registration with the Arizona Medical Board with license in good standing.

• Active DEA license in good standing
• ACLS/BLS certification
• Completion of an ARC-PA approved program

Additional qualifications

New graduates will be considered for this position and need to provide 2 letters of recommendation with your resumé: letters must be from clinical preceptors.

Office Hours

Monday-Friday 7:30am-5pm. Office closed on evenings and weekends.

Additional Specifications

• Benefits Eligible
• Bonus Eligible
• CME - Paid
• Malpractice Coverage - Paid