Pediatrician Job at Consensus Health, Wayne, NJ

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  • Consensus Health
  • Wayne, NJ

Job Description

Position Summary

The Pediatrician operates in a team with other clinic healthcare providers and support staff. The Pediatrician provides patient medical care to all patient from newborn to age 18 in an office-based, multi-specialty group practice. In addition, the Pediatrician provides diagnostic and therapeutic medical services, while making reasonable and sound medical assessments and treatment plans.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery
  • Treatment of acute illnesses
  • Treatment of acute injuries
  • Prescribes and administers medications, performs routine vaccinations, and provides advice regarding personal health and hygiene
  • Requests necessary tests and follow-up visits and refers patients to specialists, as necessary
  • Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field
  • Relies on experience and judgement to plan and accomplish goals
  • Performs a variety of tasks
  • A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected
  • Provides direction to both clinical and reception support staff
  • Proper and complete medical documentation (without copy/paste) for all patient care in order to assure accuracy (above 80% with goal of 95%) of E/M coding – and closing/sign off after review of all patient charts in accordance with company policies. Failure to meet this essential job function can affect the eligibility for productivity/PCN (percent net collection) bonuses
  • Proper and complete medical documentation (without copy/paste) for all patient care in order to assure accuracy of HCC coding. Failure to meet this essential job function can affect the eligibility for VBC bonuses
  • Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned

Qualifications or Education, Training and Experience

  • Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO)
  • Licensed in the state of New Jersey
  • Board certified or Board eligible Pediatrician
  • Completion of an accredited residency program in area of practice (i.e., family practice, internal medicine, or pediatrics)
  • DEA controlled substances registration
  • Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (CPR/AED) certification
  • Successful completion of CHC’s credentialing and privileging review upon hire and recredentialing as appropriate
  • Strong computer skills with prior electronic medical record (EMR) use preferred
  • Strong interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with patients, hospital personnel and community members
  • Skills to perform patient treatment procedures for most acute illnesses or injuries
  • Remains calm and effective in high pressure and emergency situations

Physical/Mental Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: walk, bend, sit, talk, lift, or hear. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk and use hands and arms to operate general office equipment (PC, telephone, file cabinets, copier, postage meter, fax machine and printer). The employee may occasionally lift and/or move between 10 and 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. The employee may need to travel to healthcare practices. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

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