Mid-Level Practitioner - Day

Department: Clinical Sciences Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education

Description

Responsible for providing non-emergent primary medical care at one or more community health centers. This mid-level clinician will be responsible for all patient care activities, including chronic care management, acute care, and care coordination. This mid-level clinician will practice comprehensive primary care medicine including the provision of women's health and some office-based procedures.

• Provides primary care for patients and adjust therapeutic regimens as needed.
• Completes medical assessments including history, physical, and social assessments
• Formulates diagnosis based on data collected and within scope of practice.
• Discriminates between normal, normal variations, and abnormal deviations by specific screening tests and refers patients with abnormal findings to appropriate members of the health care team.
• Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings obtained by history, physical screening, behavioral assessments and, in collaboration with the designated physician, implements an appropriate management plan.
• Orders appropriate diagnostic studies and executes such diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as the physician may assign.
• Provides health maintenance and anticipatory guidance.
• Executes physician's orders in accordance with legal, ethical, and institutional standards. Administers medications and treatments as prescribed; write or renew medication orders.
• Performs related duties as required.
  
  

MQ: Requires application of advanced principles, techniques and theory in a professional discipline or a thorough general business management knowledge. Knowledge of this level is typically obtained through a directly job-related Master's degree or equivalent formal training in a recognized field of specialization that is directly related to the type of work being performed. Requires a minimum of three (3) years of directly job-related experience.

Additional Job Posting Information

• Department is willing to accept education in lieu of experience.
  
  

All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.

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