Physician Assistant

Now is the time to join 1st Family Medicine. You will have opportunities to learn new skills from our team of experienced professionals. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and gain valuable experience, apply today!

With support from one of the nation’s fastest growing companies (12-Time Inc. 5000 Honoree), you can

maximize your individual and professional potential while pioneering the concept of modern preventative, whole-body medicine. Pacific Dental Services is helping clinicians access a powerful combination of the best operational practices, the latest technology, highly skilled support staff and commitment to ongoing training and education. As a supported clinician, you’ll be able to enjoy both clinical autonomy and a balanced lifestyle working with state-of-the-art technology and have valuable opportunities for continued education, training, and mentorship.

You will be working in primary care, integrated, comprehensive medical clinics bridging the gap between patients’ systemic and oral healthcare clinical teams, while furthering the mission of bringing preventative care to the forefront in the minds of patients and healthcare providers alike. We are closely located to and partner with successful long-standing dental practices to elevate our patient’s ability to seek the highest level of comprehensive whole-body health and to empower them to take control of their health more so than ever before.

We are looking for a clinician who is:

• Interested in providing a comprehensive, whole-body clinical approach to treating your patients.
• Seeking clinical autonomy, having the ability to spend more time with patients, but also seeking clinical mentorship and partnership.
• Wants to provide the highest quality of care to your patients, but also have a balance in life, without hospital hours.
• Wants to use the newest technology and testing procedures with a passion for preventative care, quality ongoing disease management and patient education to empower your patients to take control of their health.

A life of service is the highest calling, and we live it every day. Join us in promoting excellent preventative medicine in the community and improving the quality of life for millions of people, while changing the course of healthcare.

• Build trust with patients, ultimately building a community of Healthier, Happier Patients™
• Pursue lifelong clinical and practice management learning/education
• Utilize modern technology to provide clinically excellent medicine

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant studies from an accredited ARC-PA program.

• Current valid license issued by the state in which you will practice.

• Current NCCPA certification.

• Current DEA licensure or able to obtain licensure

• Current BLS and ACLS certification

• Minimum 1-2 years of clinical experience

• A strong sense of ethics and the ability to act with integrity

• A willingness to be coached and trained by clinicians and supervising physicians

• A hunger to achieve financial success and independence

• A passion for focusing upon prevention and whole-body care to take patient care to another level

Preferred

• Experience in a fully digitized office supporting one or more of the following: Genetic Testing, Blood Testing, Oral Pathology Screening, EKG, Ultrasound Technology.

• Experience partnering with clinical care teams, including physicians, other PAs and APRNs, specialists, medical assistants/scribes to ensure the highest quality of care for patients.

• Proficiency working in EPIC EHR.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Results Oriented (energetic self-starter, sets realistic goals, meets commitments, persistent, prioritizes daily to achieve results)

• Effective Team Builder (character/integrity, communicates openly and effectively, crucial conversations, motivator/inspirer, educator/trainer, promotes learning, effective assessor of talent, consistent)

• Customer Service Advocate (flexible and adaptive, empathetic, passionate, ethical)

• Process Focused Operator (data driven decision-maker, detailed, organized and structured, comprehensive knowledge of all operational processes, computer proficient)

• Financial Acumen (understands profit drivers, utilizes metrics to manage, builds the financial understanding of staff and clinicians, understands local market drivers and competition.

• Influencer (active listener/observer of behavior, builds trust with those requiring coaching, creates a win/win need for change, tailors coaching style to the individual’s needs, recognizes and celebrates improvement to sustain change)

• Knowledge of clinical charting/medical decision-making documentation, adherence to clinical standards of care, medical plans, fees, general plan design, administrative guidelines, limitations and exclusions, reporting and metrics systems, business correspondence and business reporting techniques, and business principles of profit and loss statements.

• Displays independent judgment by willingness to make timely and accurate decisions based on available information that is sometimes vague or limited in nature.

• Ability to multitask effectively and work in a fast paced and sometimes ambiguous environment, without compromising quality of work.

• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.

• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

• Flexibility in adapting processes to meet unique needs.

• Very orderly and excels at cutting through confusion and turning chaos into order.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 401K
• Paid time to volunteer in your local community