Description

Purpose of Position and Scope of Responsibility:

Pain management physicians examine patients to determine the cause of their discomfort and develop a treatment plan to minimize the effects of the pain and allow the patients to resume as much regular activity as possible.

This position requires full understanding and active participation in fulfilling the mission of the organization. It is expected that the employee demonstrates behavior consistent with the core values and supports the Center’s strategic plan.                                                                    

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES/PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS: Include, but are not limited to, the required behaviors associated with the standards listed below and competencies related to those standards:

1.        Demonstrates competence related to the application of our core values.

2.        Practices all facets of Health and Safety.

3.        Promotes and maintains patient health by providing medical services.

4.        Identifies short-term and long-range patient care issues.

5.        Recommends options and courses of action for patient care.

6.        Assesses patient health by interviewing patients and performing physical examinations including obtaining, updating, and studying medical histories.

7.        Determines abnormal conditions by administering or ordering diagnostic tests, such as X-rays and laboratory studies, and interpreting test results.

8.        Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.

9.        Performs therapeutic procedures by administering injections and immunizations, suturing, and infections.

10.     Instructs and counsels patients by providing normal growth and development information and providing counseling on emotional problems of daily living.

11.     Provides a community of care by developing and implementing patient management plans.

12.     Works with an interdisciplinary team of medical professionals that includes other physicians, psychologists, nurses, and physical therapists. 

13.     Prescribes medications or rehabilitative services perform pain-relieving procedures, counsel patients and families, or provides consultative services to patients.

14.     Educates patients and family members about pain medicine to help eliminate misconceptions and misunderstandings. 

15.     Maintains a safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.

16.     Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols. 

17.     Complies with federal, state, and local legal and professional requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating future legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions. 

18.     Participates in regulatory reform, especially when laws and regulations apply to pain management when warranted. 

19.     Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.

20.     Develops healthcare team staff by providing information, educational opportunities, and experimental growth opportunities.

21.     Comply with applicable laws and regulations.

22.     Comply with Mays & Schnapp Code of Conduct, policies and procedures, and compliance training program.

Requirements

Qualifications: 

Experience/Education/Certification:  Must hold an unencumbered state medical license, meet all relevant state requirements for pain management, maintain licensure in good standing, and fulfill required CME/CEU hours for pain management. 

Interpersonal: Development and maintenance of effective relationships with the interdisciplinary care team, administrative staff, patients, and the public. Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally. Must be able to effectively supervise other healthcare providers. Ability to remain calm and poised in urgent situations.

Critical Thinking: Skill in exercising initiative, judgment, problem solving, and decision making. Analysis of complex disease processes. Ability to set priorities and avoid crises management.

Knowledge: Excellent communication skills, health promotion and maintenance, clinical skills, ability to work with the interdisciplinary team, physiological knowledge, medication, and chronic pain management.

Physical Requirements: Work requires little or no physical effort.  Work requiring light physical exertion is intermittent. 

Environmental Conditions: Work is performed under normal working conditions as in a normal practice environment. Must be able to work under pressure.