Primary Care Physician

Essential Functions

• Demonstrates commitment to Hunter Health Clinic's mission, vision, and values through compassionate, patient-centered care while improving health outcomes for underserved populations.
• Conducts thorough patient assessments, diagnoses and develops individualized treatment plans for a wide range of acute and chronic medical conditions.
• Maintains an assigned panel of patients, while maintaining accurate patient records including completed consent forms, documenting procedures, and follow up care.
• Serves as a clinical role model by fostering professionalism, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives that enhance patient outcomes, patient experience, and operational effectiveness.
• Provides preventive care, including vaccinations, screenings, and health education.
• Captures referrals with specialists and other healthcare providers as needed.
• Provides appropriate mental health assessments, screening, counseling, and treatment for mental illness, family violence, and diseases of addiction.
• Performs procedures including excisions, biopsies, incisions and drainage, laceration repairs, and additional procedures in accordance with training and clinical privileges.
• Affords assistance to supervising and collaborating with HHC physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
• Engages with local medical schools, residency programs, and healthcare training institutions to support workforce development and clinical education opportunities.
• Maintains affiliate privileges at Via Christi and Wesley.
• Assists with training and orienting new clinicians on the HHC care teams.
• Maintains knowledge of clinical quality metrics and standards of care to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and medical management.
• Travels when necessary to meet operational needs.

Physical And Mental Demands Of The Job

• Talking: The ability to speak clearly and effectively.
• Average Hearing: The ability to hear average conversations and respond accordingly.
• Repetitive Motion: The ability to sit, stand, walk and use hands to handle, feel and reach.
• Finger Dexterity: The ability to use fingers to make small movements such as typing, picking up objects and pinching fingers together.
• Average Visual Abilities: The ability to focus on items clearly, including close vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• Working Conditions: The ability to work in a well-lit, climate-controlled environment, with a noise level that is occasionally high.
• Potential Exposure to Infectious Diseases.
• Physical Strength: The ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
• Mental Ability: The ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.