Physician Assistant - Family Practice
Matrix Providers
Newport, RI
Sign-On Bonus
$65/hourOverview
- Start DateASAP
Pay
- Sign-On bonus$5,000
Benefits
- Sign-On bonus
Description
Role: Medical Homeport Clinic
Schedule: Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week
No nights
No weekends
No on-call
Salary: Excellent salary + competitive benefits
Sign on Bonus eligible role!
Benefits: Competitive financial package with a comprehensive insurance package including health, dental, vision, and life coverage.
Accrued Paid Time Off (PTO)
Paid Holidays (Outlined in Handbook)
401(k) Plan
Physician Assistant minimum qualifications:
Degree: Bachelor's degree.
Education: Graduate from an accredited college or university certified by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education of the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA).
Certification: Certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician's Assistants (NCCPA).
Experience: As required to meet clinical competency requirements specified in the Service-specific credentialing instructions.
Licensure: Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as a Physician Assistant .
Job Summary:
Technically direct and provide care for various diseases and types of injuries (i.e., acute, chronic, and minor trauma). The skills to recognize emergency conditions, diagnose, prescribe for, and treat diseases, disorders, and injuries, and refer the more complex cases and severe conditions to qualified medical personnel and perform the designated treatment.
Provide a full range of Physician Assistant services in primary and specialty medical care within the limits of their training and privileges granted by the MTF (e.g., supervise and provide general screening and medical care and examinations of patients for routine, acute and chronic conditions involving any organ systems; provide immunizations; diagnose, treat, and counsel patients as indicated).
Technically direct and teach other staff, provide educational lectures and participate in in-service training for staff members.
Promote preventive care and health maintenance, including annual physicals, positive health behaviors, and self-care through formal and individual education and counseling.
Prescribe by approved treatment protocols and the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee-approved medications and immunizations.
Perform specific diagnostic and therapeutic practices and procedures by the scope of practice.
Establish collaborative rapport with physicians, nursing, and others to promote and facilitate primary care services.
Teach patients and family members healthy regimens and responsibility for achieving wellness.
Attend staff meetings to provide case discussion, continuing education, and continuous quality improvement.
Employer
Matrix Providers
Newport, RI
About
Newport, Rhode Island, is a historic seaside city on Aquidneck Island famous for its working lighthouses and world-renowned sailing. It’s hosted the renowned America’s Cup annual sailing regatta for many years. Other popular attractions include its beautiful Easton’s and Bailey’s beaches and stunning mansions once home to prominent families like the Kennedys and the Vanderbilts. The city boasts gorgeous summers and winters, but it comes alive at Christmas when it hosts a two-week festival celebrating the season that began in 1971. Food lovers discover crave-worthy Rhode Island clam chowder and numerous excellent restaurants such as Cafe Zelda, Black Pearl and Fluke. Families with children find great schools to send their children to, as Newport has one of the highest concentrations of top-ranked public schools statewide.