Description

At Neighborhood Health Center, you’ll find a kind and rewarding workplace with a fulfilling mission of providing impactful healthcare while striving for health equity. Neighborhood is the largest and longest serving Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Western New York. Together, we provide high quality care to diverse individuals and families, regardless of ability to pay.

All Neighborhood Health Center offices are located in the greater Buffalo, NY region. The Buffalo Niagara region boasts a great quality of life, with access to tremendous green space, including two Great Lakes and Niagara Falls, world-class museums, professional sports, public concerts and plays, and historic architecture. The area is also incredibly accessible, both in terms of average daily commute time as well having easy access to other major cities (Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York City and Philadelphia are all about an hour’s flight away while Toronto is only 90 minutes away by car). The region’s school districts are highly rated, the excellent housing stock is affordable, and the cost of living remains one of the lowest in the country. The area has also been experiencing significant growth in recent years, with a number of new developments and industries choosing Buffalo as a place to live.

Responsibilities:

• Provide high quality primary care to Neighborhood Health Center’s patients of infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric groups

• Lead cross-functional patient-centric care teams

• Provide comprehensive patient care and establish a family partnership whenever possible to ensure the needs of the patients are met on an ongoing basis

• Ensure high quality primary care is delivered cost-effectively, consistently

• Provide appropriate specialist referrals and follow-up recommendations when indicated

• Maintain electronic medical records in compliance with Neighborhood Health Center’s standards with high efficiency

• Engage patient, family and cross-functional care teams in sustained health and well-being of the patient

• Partner with Neighborhood Health Center’s interdisciplinary teams and resources

• Maintain familiarity with ongoing research and development in relevant fields

• Ensure performance improvement initiatives are supported with timely and accurate data and consistent actions

• Manage a limited, telephone-only coverage shared with other clinicians (weekends: every 68 weeks; weekdays: every 4 -6 weeks)

• Represent Neighborhood Health Center in community outreach activities

Compensation: $190,000-$205,000 annual salary (based on a full-time, 40 hour work week)

Individual compensation is based on various factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other position related components.

Sign on bonus: This position qualifies for a sign on bonus to be paid incrementally throughout the successful employees' first year of employment.

Tuition Reimbursement Potential: Our FQHC status provides a unique opportunity for tuition reimbursement for Physicians, up to $50,000 for a full time commitment and up to $25,000 for a part time commitment. A two year commitment to serve at a FQHC is required. This tuition reimbursement program requires application and is not guaranteed.

Requirements:

• Doctor of Medicine or Osteopathy, licensed in NYS prior to start date

• Completion of three-year Family Practice Residency, Internal Medicine or Pediatrics Residency

• Board-eligible from American Board of Family Medicine and Med-Peds boards; board certification required within 2 years after completion of residency training

• Outstanding “bedside manners”: patient-centric with empathy, excellent active listening and communication skills, engaging and efficient

• Outstanding clinical capabilities and judgment

• Focused on collaborative team-based care

• Responsive and comfortable working in a fast-paced, high accountability environment

• Proficient in EHR systems

• Flexible

• Excellent judgment and ability to prioritize resources where they will be most useful

• Comfortable receiving and providing appreciative and corrective feedback

• Engaged in learning and continuous quality improvement

• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills with a culturally diverse patient and staff population

• Proficient in working with in-person or telephonic interpreters

• Passionate about providing high quality primary health care to low-income, undeserved residents and those lacking access to health care

WHY NHC?

There are many fantastic benefits to a career at Neighborhood. We offer a kind, diverse, team-based work environment with competitive compensation and potential bonus, as well as comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, life insurance, 403b match, health savings accounts, generous paid time off and loan forgiveness, if applicable.

Neighborhood Health Center is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to the practice of equity and inclusion.