Geriatrician - Los Angeles, United States - Altais

Description

Job Description

About Our Company
At Altais, we're looking for bold and curious innovators who share our passion for enabling better health care experiences and revolutionizing the healthcare system for physicians, patients, and the clinical community. Doctors today are faced with the reality of spending more time on administrative tasks than caring for patients. Physician burnout and fatigue are an epidemic, and the healthcare experience and quality suffer as a result. At Altais, we're building breakthrough clinical support tools, technology, and services to let doctors do what they do best: care for people. We invite you to join our growing passionate team as we change the game for the future of healthcare and enable the experience that people need and deserve. Altais family of companies include: Brown and Toland Physicians, Altais Medical Group Riverside, and Family Care Specialists.

About Your Team
Are you looking to build your working with a high performing, fast growing and dynamic Clinic team? Altais and our subsidiaries, form one of the most recognized medical groups in California. We are 4,000+ physicians, working in over 40 cities in California, caring for more than 500,000 patients. If working in a mission driven organization supporting highly competent, hard-working, thoughtful clinicians who value good ideas and are passionate about reshaping healthcare excites you, then we are thrilled to welcome you to your new career.

About Your Work
BTHealth is a growing team-based primary care model, led by physicians. Our practices are delivering care that is centered around their patients. Built on clinical expertise and enriched by technology we are innovating to help patients get the care they need in the moment it matters.
This role provides clinical primary care provided by Physician specifically trained for and skilled in comprehensive first contact and continuing care for persons with any undiagnosed sign, symptom, or health concern not limited by problem origin (biological, behavioral, or social), organ system, or diagnosis.

This position will work closely with the clinical team and is primarily responsible for managing direct patient care with the implementation of evidence-based medicine and adherence to national and internal practice guidelines and policies. Provides patient advocacy in the health care system to accomplish cost-effective care by coordination of health care services. Promotes effective communication with patients and encourages the role of the patient as a partner in health care. This position will also play a key role at driving clinical initiatives for BTHealth, collaborating with other health professionals, and utilizing consultation of referral, as appropriate.

You Will Focus On:

• Health promotion
• Disease prevention
• Health maintenance
• Counseling
• Patient education
• Annual Health Assessments (AHA)
• Chronic Care Management (CCM)
• Provides direct and indirect patient care as part of the treatment regime, identifying actual or potential risks based on patient screening data.
• Collaborates with providers, ancillary personnel, community resources and other interdisciplinary team members to proactively resolve patient needs, including collaborating with other health professionals, and utilizing consultation or referral as appropriate.
• Leverages the use of the Electronic Health Record ("EHR") to manage and improve patient care, workflows and clinical compliance.
• Provides patient advocacy in the health care system to accomplish cost-effective care by coordination of health care services.
• Promotes effective communication with patients and encourages the role of the patient as a partner in health care.

The Skills, Experience & Education You Bring

• Providing patient-centric care; serving as patient health advocate.
• Working in interdisciplinary teams and employing evidence-based practice.
• Applying quality improvement
• Ability to function independently as well as part of a team in a dynamic environment and quickly adapt to changing circumstances and procedures.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to adjust communication styles when working with patients, their families and colleagues.
• Highly organized, strong time management skills and flexibility to manage multiple timelines and activities.

Standards continue to be refined reflecting the scope of services within which PCPs are expected to practice. Board certification must be current.

The PCP is required to provide call coverage for assigned Brown & Toland members 24/7, 365 days a year or participate in a call group.

• Minimum of 1-2 years clinical experience
• Successfully completed residency in their specialty
• Preferred: 3+ years professional experience working as a PCP
• Significant experience working with an EHR, preferably Epic
• Active and in good standing Medical Licensure in the state of California and Board Certified
• Active and good standing NPI number
• Active and good standing DEA number from US Drug Enforcement

You Share our Mission & Values

• You are passionate about improving the healthcare experience and want to be part of the Altais mission.
• You are bold and curious- willing to take risks, try new things and be creative.
• You take pride in your work and are accountable for the quality of everything you do, holding yourself and others to a high standard.
• You are compassionate and are known as someone who demonstrates emotional intelligence, considers others when making decisions and always tries to do the right thing.
• You co-create, knowing that we can be better as a team than individuals. You work well with others, collaborating and valuing diversity of thought and perspective.
• You build trust with your colleagues and customers by demonstrating that you are someone who values honesty and transparency.

Altais values the contribution each Team Member brings to our organization. Final determination of a successful candidate's starting pay will vary based on several factors, including, but not limited to education and experience within the job or the industry. The pay scale listed for this position is generally for candidates that meet the specified qualifications and requirements listed on this job description. Additional pay may be determined for those candidates that exceed these specified qualifications and requirements. We provide a competitive compensation package that recognizes your experience, credentials, and education alongside a robust benefits program to meet your needs.

The anticipated pay range for this role is listed in our salary posting for transparency but may vary based on factors including the candidate's qualifications, skills, experience, and geographic location. This base pay range is specific to California and can vary based on Bay Area, Metro LA, and Greater California regions which may not be applicable to other locations.

Altais and its subsidiaries and affiliates are committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information you provide to us. Please refer to our 'CPRA Privacy Notice for California Employees and Applicants' to learn how we collect and process your personal information when you apply for a role with us.

Physical Requirements: Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork – Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of workday.

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.