Family Practice/Primary Care Physician Assistant

POSITION: Physician Assistant/ APRN SCHEDULE: Part Time, 8 hours per week FACILITY: Central Regional Jail
Location: Sutton, WV Wexford Health Sources, Inc. is one of the nation s largest correctional health care providers. Over the past 30 years, our team of dedicated clinical professionals has helped millions of justice-involved patients receive life-changing medical and mental health services.


Guaranteed salary or hourly rate (W2 or 1099 status available)
No nights or weekends
No insurance authorizations
Patient and medicine focused
POSITION SUMMARY

• Provides medical services to incarcerated population.


• Utilizes professional medical skills to meet a variety of health care needs, with ambulatory and primary care as a focus.


• Provides a broad range of medical services to the facility including assessment, identification and treatment of medical (acute and/or chronic) concerns, health education to patients, and illness and injury prevention.


• Performs paraprofessional medical services of an advanced technical nature to the inmate population as appropriate.


• Prepares written prescription orders for drugs; administers medication and injections; sutures wounds and provides wound care.


• Coordinates with other health care employees in the delivery of care.


• Orders medications for patients following licensure authority in coordination with company and facility guidelines.


• Utilizes EMR for charting in a format as designated to document pertinent patient information in chronological order in the health record.

BENEFITS (for W2 employees of 30 hours per week or more)
Wexford Health offers a competitive benefits package including:

• Performance check-ins with annual merit increase


• Generous paid-time off program that combines vacation and sick leave


• Paid holidays


• Comprehensive health insurance through BlueCross BlueShield


• Dental and Vision insurance


• 401(k) retirement saving plan


• Company-paid short-term disability


• Healthcare and dependent care spending account


• Continuing education options


• Medical liability insurance provided with tail coverage