Job Opportunity: Geriatrics Provider

Specialty: Geriatrics
Start Date: September 2024

Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm

Support Staff: Nurses, LCSW, Case workers

Coverage Needed per Month: 80 hours per week (1 due to provider leaving and 1 due to growth)

Patients per Day: 1-6/7 (fluctuates depending on the severity of patients' illnesses/medications and time needed)

Patient Population/Age: 55 and older, able to live safely in the community

Department Description: Providing comprehensive care for elderly participants

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and treat participants with episodic illnesses
• Refer participants to medical specialists as indicated
• Judiciously utilize specialty consultants
• Manage all care of participants in the nursing home:
  • Provide regular visits
  • Perform telephone contacts with nursing home staff as required
  • Admit nursing home participants to the hospital when necessary
• Actively participate in family conferences
• Coordinate 24-hour care delivery
• Document participant changes appropriately in the medical record and communicate changes to team members

EMR: True Chart

Practice Setting: Clinic/Private Practice

Requirements:

• Board Certification: BC – will consider non-boarded candidates with reasoning for lapsing
• License Required: NC – due to time frame MUST be NC licensed, valid NC driver’s license, and vehicle
• Certifications Required: Experience caring for the 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 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