Geriatrician- North Carolina
- Locum
- Geriatric Medicine, Internal Medicine , Family Medicine
- North Carolina
- Aug 22, 2024
Job Summary
Specialty: FP, IM, DO Geriatrics
Start Date: September 16th or as soon as credentialed. (2 FTE’s)
Contract Length: Until Perm provider is identified.
Schedule: Monday – Friday 8a – 5p Call 1:3 Night call and 24 hour weekend call (can be done from home)
Work Details:
• Support staff: Nurses, LCSW, Case workers
• Amount of coverage needed per month: 80 hours per week. 1 due to provider leaving and one due to growth
• Patients per day: 1-6/7 (can fluctuate depending on severity of patients illnesses/meds etc and how much time they need to spend with them
• Patient population/age: 55 and older able to live safely in the community.
• Department description:
Key Responsibilities
• Performs comprehensive history and physical on new referrals.
• Performs interval history and physicals on established participants completed quarterly and as indicated.
• Evaluates and treats participants with episodic illnesses.
• Refers participants to medical specialists as indicated.
• Admits participants to the hospital.
• Provides primary care (attending) responsibilities for management
• Provides updates to the team on a regular basis.
• Judiciously utilizes specialty consultants.
• Responsible for coordinating discharge planning with the team.
• Manages all care of participants in the nursing home:
• Provides regular visits.
• Performs telephone contacts with nursing home staff as required.
• Admits nursing home participants to hospital when necessary.
• Actively participates in family conferences.
• Coordination of 24-hour care delivery.
• Documents participant changes appropriately in the medical record and communicates participant change to team members.
• Participates as a member of the Interdisciplinary Team. Takes part in participant care planning.
• Attends staff meetings.
o EMR: True Chart
Practice Setting:
• Clinic/Private Practice
Requirements:
• Board Certification: BC – will look at Non boarded but want reasoning for boards lapsing.
• License required: NC – due to time frame MUST be NC licensed. valid NC driver’s license and vehicle.
• Certifications required: Experience caring for elderly and in good standing and enrolled with Medicare and Medicaid. Need schools attended, NPI and work experience.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Proven clinical leadership; Ability to excel with others in a team environment; Act within the scope of his or her authority to practice; Meet a standardized set of competencies for the specific position description established by PACE of Guilford and Rockingham Counties and approved by CMS before working independently.
Credentialing Timeframe: 30 -45 days