Physician (Family Medicine)

Community Health Connections (CHC) is a safe haven to find compassionate care, regardless of income or insurance status.
Founded in 2002, we have 20 years of experience as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving low income, underinsured, uninsured, publicly housed, and homeless populations in 35 cities and towns in North Central Massachusetts.

Responsibilities include:

• Provides primary care services to individuals and families across the lifespan.
• Practices within the collaborative model with nurse practitioners and clinical psychologists.
• Provides and manages direct patient care, including physical examinations, evaluations, assessments, diagnoses and treatment for a specified patient population.
• Prescribes pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens as appropriate to assessed medical conditions.
• Refers patients to specialists and to relevant patient care components as appropriate.
• Directs and coordinates the patient care activities of nursing and support staff as required.
• Follows established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives, continuous quality improvement objectives, and safety, environmental, and/or infection control standards.
• As appropriate to the position, participates in specified health promotion, education and/or prevention programs.
• Ability to observe, assess, and record symptoms, reactions, and progress.
• Knowledge of legal and ethical standards for the delivery of medical care.
• Knowledge of relevant drugs and non-pharmaceutical patient care aids and ability to prescribe dosages and instruct patients in correct usage.
• Participate in On Call coverage.
• Ability to maintain quality, safety, and/or infection control standards.
• Ability to develop and present educational programs and/or workshops.
• Knowledge of community medical diagnostic and patient care services in area of medical expertise.
• Knowledge of current principles, methods and procedures for the delivery of medical evaluation, diagnosis and treatment in area of expertise.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Medical Degree (MD or DO)
• Board certification/eligibility in specialty.
• ACLS or CPR/AED certified.
• Current licensure by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine
• Current DEA, DEA-X and Massachusetts Controlled Substance licensure for prescriptive authority
• Eligible for unrestricted health center at facilities utilized by the health center
• Effective verbal and written communication skills

We offer competitive pay and excellent benefits including bonuses, paid time off (vacation, sick, personal and 10 holidays), health, dental, life, vision, 401K, and more!