Women’s Health Physician Assistant

Essential Role: The APP provides quality women's healthcare services in collaboration with other APPs, physicians and staff. In this role, you will provide comprehensive, high-quality reproductive, gynecological and obstetric health care to women in the clinic and in the hospital. In collaboration with our physicians and clinical team, you will manage an independent panel of patients, focusing on preventative care, wellness and patient education in an environment that prioritizes patient-centered care.

Standards of Excellent Performance:

• Demonstrates strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Demonstrates initiative in the performance of duties.

• Maintains a high level of efficiency utilizing good organizational skills.

• Maintains a high level of personal conduct, attendance, confidentiality and punctuality.

• Thorough knowledge of the health care environment, including community resources.

• Demonstrates trust and can present information and discuss situations in an appropriate and helpful manner.

Performance Requirements:

• Maintain focus on executing the Mission, Vision and Core Values of Billings OBGYN. This includes an engaged and supportive culture.

• Maintain patient confidentiality at all times.

• Courteous, helpful, and professional at all times.

• Comprehensive clinical care. Conduct annual well-woman exams, comprehensive pelvic and breast exams and diagnostic cancer screenings.

• Obstetric care. Provide routine prenatal and postpartum care, including monitoring fetal development, managing low-risk pregnancies and counseling new mothers.

• Family planning and contraception. Counsel patients on reproductive options and perform minor in-office clinical procedures such as IUD insertions/removals and Nexplanon placements.

• Acute and chronic care management. Diagnose and treat common gynecological issues, including irregular bleeding, vaginitis pelvic pain, UTIs and STIs.

• Menopause support. Evaluate and manage care plans for perimenopausal and postmenopausal patients, including hormone replacement therapy (HRT) counseling.

• Interface with computers and general office equipment effectively. Including maintaining detailed, timely electronic health records in Epic.

• Learn and adapt to new concepts and procedures quickly.

• Represent the clinic at outside meetings and with the public.

• Ability to communicate well with people both in personal contact and on the telephone.

• Good organizational, planning and coordination skills.

• Knowledge of pregnancy and postpartum care, as well as potential behavioral health challenges that may emerge during care.

• Other duties as assigned.

Position Duties:

Administrative:

• Hold others and self, accountable to carrying out the Mission, Vision and Core Values.

• Demonstrates respect for each member of the team and supports each member to be successful.

• Knowledge (or ability to gain understanding) of community resources.

• Monitor each patient's care plan and ensure that follow-ups, referrals, tests and other elements of care are completed and appropriately coordinated among providers.

• Maintain complete and timely medical records within Epic.

Clinical:

• Ensures patients receive care through a clinical team made up of physicians, staff or other providers.

• Routinely screens patients for substance use and common mental health challenges like depression and anxiety.

• Provides physical examinations, evaluations, assessments, diagnoses and treatment.

• Prescribes pharmaceuticals, other medications and treatment regimens as appropriate to assessed medical condition.

• Facilitates referrals for clinically indicated services outside of OBGYN.

• Documents patient histories, progress notes, interventions and orders in Epic on a timely basis.

Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:

• Education. Master of Science in Nursing or Doctor of Nursing Practice or graduate from an accredited physician assistant program.

• Maintain an active and unrestricted license in the state of Montana.

• Active DEA license and state prescriptive authority.

• Manage/monitor patient's medication usage and results.

• Ability to identify and treat chronic and acute illnesses and conditions.

• Ability to use Epic EMR.

• Medicaid and Medicare billing practices.

• Ability to work as a team member, establishing and maintaining effective relationships with patients and other staff.

• The jobholder must demonstrate current competencies applicable to the job position.

• Requires excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong customer service skills.

• Requires strong basic mathematical skills.

• Requires an extensive working knowledge of managed care networks and insurance carriers.

• Requires a high degree of organization.

Other Duties:

• Develop and maintain professional relationships with patients, visitors, physicians and staff and is consistently courteous and responsive.

• Communicate both written and orally in a clear and professional manner.

• Actively listen with empathy prior to providing advice or options.

• Maintains confidentiality of all patient information.

• Complete written documents as directed and per policy.

• Serves as a role model for effective teamwork among staff and actively works to maintain positive morale and attitude.

Working Conditions:

• Requires sitting for extended periods of time as well as occasional standing and walking.

• Medical Office environment.

• Multi-task oriented position.

• May involve contact with angry, upset or ill persons.

• Must interact with patients, the general public, other office personnel and health care providers.

• Requires stooping, bending and/or stretching for files and supplies.

• Occasional lifting of files or paper weighing up to 50 lbs.

• Requires corrected vision, no color blindness and hearing to normal range.

Education and Qualifications:

• Graduate from an accredited physician assistant program.

• Knowledge of the prenatal process is required.

• License to practice medicine in Montana.

• BLS Certification required.

• Must have a National Provider Identifier (NPI).

• Minimum of two years of experience in a medical office required. OBGYN preferred.

• General computer and word processing experience required.

• Must have a current DEA license to prescribe medications.

Billings OB-GYN Associates is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Billings OB-GYN Associates does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.