Job Title: Internist-Adult Medicine
Company Profile:
When you join the growing South Cove team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
South Cove Community Health Center is looking for a candidate who can speak Mandarin OR Cantonese. South Cove is the premier Asian primary health care provider in the Greater Boston area. We have been providing value-based health care to the Boston Chinatown’s community for over 50 years and have expanded our delivery of care into the cities of Quincy and Malden. We now offer many services including medical, dental, optometry, obstetrics and gynecology, behavioral health, imaging, and many other services.
Location: Boston ,Malden, Quincy
Available Shifts:
Monday to Friday, 40 hours/week, Saturday as needed
Benefits:
Health insurance
401K and Profit Sharing Retirement Plan
Long-term and short-term disability
Group term life insurance
Paid Time off
Holiday
Medical Care spending account and Dependent Care spending
In-house health services discount for staff and immediate family members
Essential Functions and Job Duties:
- Oversees and provides direct medical care to patients.
- Diagnosing and treating illnesses, medical conditions, and injuries.
- Ordering, performing, and interpreting diagnostic tests
- Collecting, recording, and maintaining patients' information and histories.
- Prescribing and administering treatments, therapies, medications, vaccinations, and other specialized medical care
- Explaining procedures and discussing test results or prescribed treatments with patients and family members.
- Monitoring patients' conditions and progress.
- Advising patients, parents, and guardians on diets, activities, hygiene, and disease prevention.
- Referring patients to other providers as appropriate.
- Demonstrates clinical competence and professional commitment in the Practice of Medicine by adhering to established standards of practice and utilizing appropriate scientific principles.
- Participates in patient care audits for quality assurance and utilization review to maintain and improve patient care standard of excellence.
- Maintains appropriate medical records on assigned patients.
- Maintains medical professional standards and knowledge by regularly attending medical conferences, seminars, continuing education programs, and the teaching medical residents, medical students and /or practitioners or students in other health care professions.
- Serve on-call including as a backup clinician as assigned.
- Serves as member of related committees as requested/needed.
- Pursues continued education opportunities for ongoing professional growth and accreditation status.
- Accepts responsibility, is self-directed in developing and maintaining own level of competence, career development and education.
- Travel between sites may be required.
- Attendance at required staff meetings
- Referral and liaison services to programs within South Cove and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (“BIDMC”), a Harvard Teaching Hospital.
Qualifications:
- Internist M.D. with a Massachusetts medical license
- Bilingual in Chinese (Mandarin OR Cantonese)
- Preferable Board-certified or Board-eligible
- Must apply for medical & staff privileges at BIDMC
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Healthcare setting:
- Clinic
- Community health center
- Outpatient
Primary care specialties:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- On call
- Weekends as needed
Ability to Relocate:
- Boston, MA 02111: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person