Physician- Addiction and Primary Care (MD/DO)

HealthRIGHT 360•San Mateo, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

HealthRIGHT 360 San Mateo Clinic is a Federally Qualified Health Center focused on providing primary care and addiction treatment to a target population that includes individuals suffering from substance use disorder, mental illness, homelessness, or with a history in the criminal justice system. The clinic provides trauma-informed care under a harm reduction philosophy and operates as a small practice with 2-3 providers and support staff, collaborating with the county for case management services. The Staff Physician – MD/DO – acts as a clinical leader, providing quality primary care and substance use disorder treatment in an integrated delivery model, contributing to practice growth, and promoting team functioning. This role involves full clinical supervision and oversight for Advanced Practice Providers, including entering into Collaborative Agreements, and supervising the healthcare treatment team and medical assistant functions. The physician is responsible for comprehensive primary care and addiction treatment, prompt documentation, ensuring follow-up care, responding to patient needs, and collaborating with mental health staff for integrated care. On-call availability, maintaining licensure and certifications, and attending continuing medical education are also required. The position also entails clinical leadership, supervision of various healthcare professionals and trainees, and demonstrating comfort with leading change processes. Performance and Quality Improvement responsibilities include meeting quality indicator benchmarks, contributing to continuous quality improvement, and acting as a change champion. Organizational duties include supervising staff and trainees, administrative/clinical duties as requested by the supervisor, and completing mandatory trainings.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited allopathic or osteopathic medical school
Possession of a valid California license as a physician
Possession of national board certification in primary care and/or addiction.
Possession of BCLS/CPR certification
Possession of DEA Certificate
Minimum 2-3 years of practice in community health center or relevant practice/experience providing primary care and addiction treatment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with EPIC
Experience working with populations with varying lifestyles, ages, sexual orientations, ethnic and culture backgrounds and economic status
Experience working successfully with issues of substance abuse, mental health, criminal background, and other potential barriers to economic self sufficiency
Spanish, Cantonese, Vietnamese or other Medicaid threshold language

Responsibilities

Provides comprehensive primary care and addiction treatment within the scope of credentialed privileges and standardized procedures.
Documents care promptly and follows charting protocols and applicable CA state licensing requirements.
Ensures appropriate follow-up for all aspects of ordered care (e.g., specialty referrals, laboratory results, radiology reports, etc.).
Responds to patient requests for information and assistance (e.g., form completion, prescription refills, etc.) in a timely manner.
Works collaboratively with mental health staff to facilitate integration between primary care and mental health.
Provides on-call after-hours availability on a rotating basis.
Obtains and maintains licensure, DEA registration and BCLS/CPR certification.
Attends continuing professional education programs to meet required hours of continuing medical education.
Provides clinical leadership, supervision and oversight to advanced practice providers, support staff, nurses, medical assistants, patient care coordinators, and interns/students.
Enters into collaborative agreement with an advanced practice provider including full supervision in addition to clinical supervision, input into the performance appraisal, peer review and hiring or termination of the provider or clinical support staff.
Demonstrates comfort in changing systems, champions change, and leads change processes.
Meets benchmarks for applicable quality indicators as noted in the annual quality improvement plan.
Assists in continuous quality improvement through on-going problem/needs identification and problem solving.
Acts as change champion or lead in improvement activities as requested.
Supervises advanced practice providers, support staff including nurse and medical assistants, students, interns and residents.
Maintains availability for various administrative/clinical duties as requested by supervisor (e.g., case presentations; in-service training to staff).
Represents HealthRIGHT 360 at and/or attends professional conferences, in-service trainings, and meetings at the request or with approval of supervisor.
Completes all mandatory trainings on an annual basis.