Job Summary
Job Description
Seeking a Pediatrician for an FQHC in Leominster, Massachusetts. Join an excellent team that's been serving the community for over 40 year.
Highlights:
- Outpatient w/limited call
- Flexible weekday schedule
- Competitive salary + incentives
- Loan repayment programs
- FQHC w/ several locations in Northern MA
- Room for leadership and advancement
Compensation and Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Sign-on/Relocation
- 401k w/ matching
- Generous vacation and personal time for eligible employees
- Sick leave
- Federal loan repayment programs
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 100% paid Life insurance/AD&D
- 100% paid Long-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounts on travel and entertainment
- Discounts on cell phone service, computer purchases, and more
- College Tuition Rewards/CMEs
- Company Events & Activities
- EyeMed Vision Care Program
- Accident & Cancer Insurance
- Educational development reimbursement
- Discounts on - gym membership, travel & entertainment tickets, electronics, and more
- J1 and H1b visa sponsorship
Job Responsibilities
- Provides primary care services to infants, children and adolescents up to the age of 22.
- Practices within the collaborative model with nurse practitioners and behavioral health providers.
- Provides and manages direct patient care, including physical examinations, evaluations, assessments, diagnoses and treatment for a specified patient population.
- Prescribes pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens as appropriate to assessed medical conditions.
- Refers patients to specialists and to relevant patient care components as appropriate.
- Directs and coordinates the patient care activities of nursing and support staff as required.
- Follows established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives, continuous quality improvement objectives, and safety, environmental, and/or infection control standards.
- Participates in specified health promotion, education and/or prevention programs.
- Observe, assess, and record symptoms, reactions, and progress.
- Knowledge of legal and ethical standards for the delivery of medical care.
- Knowledge of relevant drugs and non-pharmaceutical patient care aids and ability to prescribe dosages and instruct patients in correct usage.
- Participate in On Call coverage.
- Ability to maintain quality, safety, and/or infection control standards.
- Ability to develop and present educational programs and/or workshops.
- Knowledge of community medical diagnostic and patient care services in area of medical expertise.
- Knowledge of current principles, methods and procedures for the delivery of medical evaluation, diagnosis and treatment in area of expertise.
- Communicates effectively in both written and verbal formats.
- Ability to supervise, advise, and train clinical professionals and/or students in area of expertise.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team.
- Managing patient care is a team effort that involves clinical and non-clinical staff interacting with patients
- Demonstrate understanding and commitment of the health center mission
- Demonstrate understanding and commitment to the established CHC Values and Standards
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Board certification/eligibility in Pediatrics.
- Current licensure by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine
- Certified in ACLS or CPR/AED
- Current DEA and Massachusetts Controlled Substance licensure for prescriptive authority
- Eligible for unrestricted health center at facilities utilized by the health center.