APC - Primary Care

Job Summary

APC – Primary Care at Home – Kelsey‑Seybold Clinic

This role works under the supervision of the Managing Physician for Primary Care at Home to provide value‑based medical care and care coordination for homebound patients. The Care Manager – Nurse Practitioner will assess patients, perform comprehensive or problem‑focused examinations, order and interpret laboratory and diagnostic tests, prescribe and manage therapeutic treatments, and develop comprehensive, outcomes‑based patient care plans. The Care Manager will also initiate timely consultations and referrals when patient problems exceed their scope of practice.

This position requires home and virtual visits; the goal is to perform about six home visits per day.

• Serve as physician extender in the clinic setting
• Evaluate patients in the clinic setting
• Document evaluations in a timely manner
• Order medications and tests as per guidelines and protocols
• Follow up on tests and consults
• Schedule clinical studies as per guidelines and protocols
• Coordinate referrals/consults
• Handle MKO messages, results, CC charts, telephone encounters, and surgical risk assessments as needed within scope of practice and as directed by the supervising physician

• Graduate from an Accredited School of Physician Assistant Studies or Master’s in Nursing
• Licensed in the State of Texas
• Board Certified and/or Board Eligible
• 2 years of experience in an outpatient primary care setting required

Kelsey‑Seybold Clinic is Houston’s premier multispecialty group practice founded in 1949. More than 850 physicians and allied health professionals practice at over 40 locations in the Greater Houston area, offering quality medical care in more than 65 medical specialties. The Clinic operates the largest freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Center in Texas and offers state‑of‑the‑art radiation therapy technology at a nationally accredited Cancer Center.

Kelsey‑Seybold partners with major insurers to offer value‑based commercial health plans and is in‑network with major insurance plans.

Kelsey‑Seybold Clinic strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by organizational policy or by federal, state, or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. Kelsey‑Seybold is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and desires priority referrals for protected veterans.

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Management and Manufacturing
• Industries:
  Hospitals and Health Care