Responsibilities

• Must be willing to become a member of the Primary Care Network as a participating physician in agreement with the Primary Care Network’s Business Plan.
• Engages participants in risk factor and health problem identification, goal setting, and making choices of intervention for disease treatment, prevention, and health promotion.
• Orders and interprets appropriate screening, diagnostic, and laboratory tests.

• Keeps complete and accurate records of client visits through timely documentation.

• Collaborates with the multi-disciplinary team, participant, physicians, and other stakeholders necessary to develop appropriate, client-centered, individualized care plans.
• Contributes to the development of learning resources and initiates health education and other activities that assist, promote, and support participants in strengthening their recovery capital.
• Considers the psychosocial, emotional, ethnic, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of a participant’s health without judgement.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Demonstrates patience, understanding, and respect when working with disadvantaged and challenging adults.
• Supports a respectful workplace.
• Excellent leadership, critical thinking, organizational, and communication skills.
• Expertise in developing and maintaining excellent working relations with members of the multi-disciplinary team and external partners.

Competencies

• Teamwork: Work cooperatively and productively with others within and across organizational units to achieve common goals; demonstrate respect, cooperation, collaboration, and consensus-building.

• Service Orientation: Engage and empower the people served through day-to-day support or programming; support harm reduction and improve the life skills, wellness, and health of the people served through client care and support.
• Accountability: Holds oneself and others accountable for high-quality, timely, and cost-effective work outcomes.
• Communication: Communicates orally and in writing in a clear, concise, and impartial manner. Takes time to listen to and understand the perspectives of others and proposes solutions.
• Interpersonal Relations: Being attuned to the needs and sensitivities of others and acting with them in mind. It involves practicing active listening when interacting with individuals or groups.