Clinician Float Certified Nurse Midwife, Nurse Practitioner, or Physician’s Assistant (Healthcare)
Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties has a part-time opportunity for a Clinician Float Certified Nurse Midwife, Nurse Practitioner, or Physician's Assistant in San Bernardino, CA.
To travel as assigned to the various clinics throughout Orange or San Bernardino Counties providing Clinician coverage to provide quality patient care including exams, treatment, education and counseling for patients in accordance with agency protocols.
At PPOSBC, we understand the importance of a well-rounded benefits program and are dedicated to providing you with unique benefits that meet the needs of you and your family. We are proud to offer a range of plans that help protect you in the case of illness or injury including:
- A competitive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and eligible dependents, life insurance, and long term disability.
- Benefits coverage starts after one full month of employment!
- Generous vacation, sick, and holiday benefits!
- Generous 401(k) matching contributions and more!
- To view our detailed benefits guide, please visit our career site at www.pposbccareers.org
Responsibilities
Essential Functions: Essential functions encompass the required tasks, duties and responsibilities performed as part of the job and the reason the job exists.
- Adhere to agency's policies, procedures and protocols. This may include successfully completing agency, regional and/or state certification requirements.
- Adhere to affiliate goals and policies on professionalism, wait time in-clinic and on the system for addressing client complaints.
- Participate in health center efforts to achieve established goals for productivity.
- Participate in health center/affiliate efforts to achieve established revenue cycle goals.
- Perform physical and gynecological examinations for female patients including review of medical history, screening for abnormalities, pregnancy, and ordering of laboratory tests.
- Educate and counsel clients on the provision of medical reproductive health care including, contraceptives, emergency contraception, abortion, and vasectomy options.
- Provide contraceptives, abortion referrals and abortion services.
- Perform genito-urinary exams of male patients in relation to testing and treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections.
- Document patient data accurately and completely in the medical record.
- Evaluate and treat medical problems, ensuring follow-up and appropriate referrals as necessary including supervising follow-up procedures for abnormal laboratory results.
- Dispense prescription medications understanding order.
- Manage emergency situations as they arise in the center, and consult with Medical Doctor as necessary.
- If trained, provide prenatal services, IUD, Norplant and Implanon, insertions and removals, and colposcopy and cryotherapy treatment.
- Once trained, care for abortion (surgical and medical) patients, including ultrasounds and post-operative care.
- Meet the required productivity goals of the center and attend medical meetings, as required.
- Orient/train new clinicians and/or clinic assistants.
- Be available to work On-Call shift to provide patient care up to six (6) days annually.
- Participate in regularly scheduled peer review process, as required.
- Assist Patient Services management team with assigned projects.
Non-Essential Functions:
- Other duties as assigned.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
The physical requirements of this position are identified below. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
CORE COMPETENCIES – WE CARE:
- Welcoming: Anticipates customer requirements and gives high priority to customer satisfaction and service. Handles problems quickly and efficiently. Maintains a pleasant, positive and professional approach. Embraces opportunities to help team members, stakeholders, and other departments.
- Equitable: Creating equitable access and opportunity for all through education, practicing inclusive behavior, elevating others' voices, creating spaces for honest conversation, and listening without judgment. Values and uplifts our collective diversity within in our agency.
- Confidential: Respects the information shared by our patients, employees, and vendors and maintains appropriate confidentiality. Follows all policies and laws that protect private & privileged information.
- Accessible: Is available and approachable to others, open-minded, fair and non-defensive. Appreciates constructive feedback and is a team player. Demonstrates good listening skills.
- Respectful: Values diversity and treats everyone with dignity and courtesy. Dependable and courteous of other people's time and commitments.
- Empathetic: Demonstrates interest and understanding in other people's feelings, attitudes and reasoning. Maintains an open and non-judgmental demeanor that is patient, flexible, and understanding.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Licensure and/or Certification Requirements:
- Current California clinician's license and CPR certification required.
- Furnishing license, as applicable to NP.
- Board Certification preferred.
Minimum Work Experience:
- Nurse Practitioner, Physician's Assistant or Certified Nurse Midwife with reproductive/primary care specialty.
- Women's managed/primary health care experience preferred.
Other Requirements:
- May assist with and possibly train venipuncture and/or other triaging responsibilities as needed.
- May assist with ordering, packaging and labeling of drugs.
- May assist with cleaning and maintenance of technical equipment (i.e. microscopes).
- If job duties require working abortion services, additional duties to include on call rotation during non-clinical hours.
Agency Standard Requirements:
- Strong commitment to quality healthcare and excellent customer service is required.
- Must thrive in a fast paced, rigorous environment with changing priorities.
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
- Must demonstrate high level computer skills including; Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. Electronic medical records experience may also be required.
- This position requires travel to other sites and locations; if using a personal vehicle to meet this requirement, a valid CA driver's license and current auto insurance in compliance with the minimum requirements of CA vehicle code are required.
