DescriptionPosition Overview: The Physician Assistant (PA) - TMS Clinical Lead provides direct client care, including assessing, diagnosing, planning, and prescribing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment of health problems, health promotion and preventive care within this specialized area of practice under the supervision of a licensed physician. The PA is involved in practice activities with the goal of improving the quality of care in an outpatient setting.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Performs psychiatric diagnostic evaluations to determine diagnoses, treatment strategies, and care coordination needs for clients with mental health, substance use, or other psychiatric and medical needs.
- Provides all psychiatric and/or medical services within reasonable and expected medical standards, timelines, and in conformance with all requirements imposed by the applicable health licensing boards. Applies medical knowledge and skills to the process of diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of illnesses.
- Maintains timely, complete, accurate and legible medical records for all patients evaluated and treated by the Physician Assistant. Performs timely, concurrent, accurate clinical/billing documentation meeting professional standards in compliance with State and Federal regulations, clinical necessity, and appropriate coding standards.
- Performs pharmacologic treatment strategies, orders medications, monitors, and evaluates progress on psychiatric and/or other medications.
- Orders, obtains and assesses appropriate laboratory tests and diagnostics. Base clinical decisions on laboratory interpretation.
- Assures timely access to care, demonstrates flexibility in scheduling to fully meet client needs, and meets applicable productivity standards.
- Under the supervision of an MD or DO, the PA will assume client care responsibilities inclusive of psychiatric evaluation, professional diagnoses and prescribing and/or administering treatment.
- Completes medication and health education to include but not limited to informed consent, benefits, risks, side effects, and alternative treatments for medications ordered, health/wellness management, metabolic risk reduction strategies.
- Provides professional and timely communication, care coordination with clients, families, involved agencies, PCP, and other specialty care providers to ensure timely and coordinated treatment planning and evaluation of patient progress.
- Conducts Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation mappings/remapping procedures once trained and demonstrates competency.
- Remain in compliance with state laws and regulations for PA, including meeting supervised hour requirements, CME, and completing appropriate assessments in timely manner with supervising physician.
Other Duties:
- Identify patients appropriate for TMS treatment using the Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) report and other methods.
- Participate in mappings and remappings for both FDA and non-FDA approved conditions.
- Provide timely consultation both for internally and externally referred patient to answer questions, clarify diagnosis, complete the medication list and prescribe medications as needed.
- Conduct training presentations for staff as needed. Consistently reinforce TMS training and serve as a resource for all clinic staff members.
- Monitor clinical outcomes in patients who participate in TMS. Lead clinical quality improvement initiatives and clinic level process enhancements for both technicians and TMS providers.
- Monitor TMS patients' experience. Identify and address opportunities to improve clinic processes to enhance patient satisfaction.
- Support the TMS referral process by guiding clinic personnel, responding to medical questions and liaising with other providers.
- Provide corresponding reporting to attending physician in support of the peer review process.
- Responsible for reporting successful TMS patient cases or TMS related research in clinic staff meetings.
- Collaborate with TMS Coordinator to expedite TMS referrals and authorizations with appropriate payors.
- Identify patients post treatment for additional therapy based on clinical appropriateness.
- Achieve the clinic's community impact goals related to TMS utilization.
Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility:
- Supervises TMS Technicians as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Graduation from an NCCPA-approved physician assistant program
- Current Physician Assistant full and unrestricted licensure in the state of practice and active state DEA License required. PA with Psych Certificate of Added Qualifications (CAQ) preferred.
- Family Care Center TMS Provider Training required. Semi-annually completion of 5 hours of TMS related CME/CEU required.
Location: Parker Clinic#LI-CG1
