Limited Permit Provider (In Person)

Essen Health Care; New York (NY); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Essen Health care is seeking a Limited Permit Provider to collaborate with the primary care team across a multisite network, coordinating chronic disease care and advocating for patients.

You will operate under supervision of fully licensed providers, ensure timely care, and support discharge planning while addressing patient goals and needs in geriatric and post-acute settings.

Qualifications

• Graduate medical education with USMLE steps in progress or completed.
• ECFMG certification or eligibility.
• Active Limited Permit for Medicine in NYS or eligibility required.

Responsibilities

• Complete comprehensive evaluation of new patients.
• Manage chronic medical conditions to maximize recovery.
• Identify and address new conditions promptly.
• Hold weekly interdisciplinary team meetings and document progress.
• Participate in discharge planning and family meetings.
• Ensure patient goals guide rehabilitation planning and discharge decisions.
• Coordinate care transitions between settings.
• Contribute to post-acute and facility performance improvement initiatives.
• Adhere to geriatric and palliative care principles.

Skills

Communication skills

Bedside manners

Clinical knowledge

EMR navigation

Education

USMLE (parts passed)

ECFMG

Limited Permit for Medicine (NYS)

Tools

Sigmacare

PointClickCare

Wellsky

Visual

Job description

Overview

Essen Health Care is the largest privately held, multispecialty medical group in New York, providing high-quality, compassionate care to some of the state’s most vulnerable and underserved residents.

Founded in 1999, we’ve grown from a single primary care office into a network of 50+ locations offering urgent care, primary care and specialty services, from women’s health to endocrinology and psychiatry. We also provide nursing home support, care management, and in-home care through our Essen House Calls program. Guided by a Population Health model, our team of 500+ providers deliver care in-person, at home, or via telehealth, ensuring patients get the support they need when and where they need it.

We’re looking for talented, motivated individuals to join our growing team. Whether you’re a medical provider, administrator, or operations professional, there’s a career here for you. Join us in making a real difference in the health of our community.

Job Summary

The Limited Permit Provider works in collaboration with the primary care provider and all members of the care team. Develops care initiatives to assess and coordinate chronic disease care management for their patient population in a manner that is medically appropriate and cost effective. Responsible and accountable for direct and indirect patient care for designated patient populations. Assesses healthcare needs and identifies community resources. Serves as patient advocate and assists in identification and improvement of service delivery.

Responsibilities

All below responsibilities are similar to that of a fully licensed nursing home physician, and a Limited Permit Provider. All applicants are required to fulfill the below responsibilities under the general supervision of fully licensed providers.

• Completes comprehensive evaluation of all new patients.

• Effectively and proactively manages chronic medical conditions to maximize functional and medical recovery.

• Rapidly identifies and addresses new medical conditions that may impair functional and medical recovery.

• Meets with interdisciplinary team for each patient at least weekly and documents progress towards goals, barriers to goals, plans to address barriers, and current discharge plan.

• Attends scheduled patient and family meetings as necessary to ensure effective communication and discharge planning.

• Ensures that patient goals are considered in rehabilitation planning, goal setting, and discharge planning.

• Effectively works with patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams to meet established goals.

• Rapidly identifies when clinical course is not progressing towards goals and effectively intervenes to correct barriers, communicate with team and patient, and work with team and patient to establish new goals as needed.

• Ensures seamless care transitions by direct physician to physician communication for community, facility, or hospital discharges.

• Effectively participates in Post-Acute and facility performance improvement activities. Completes scheduled “on call” work requirements.

• Ensures that all medical care follows accepted principles of Geriatric and Palliative care.

• Complies with all applicable Federal, State and local laws, regulations, and requirements as well as facility/agency specific policies and procedures.

• Works toward defined clinical metrics as determined by the medical department.

Qualifications

• Medical Graduate (International or National) Passed portions of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)

• Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduate(ECFMG)

• Possess/ eligible for active Limited Permit for Medicine according to NYS Office of Professions.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Excellent bedside manners and organizational skills.

• Clinical Knowledge

• Must be comfortable with EMR navigation (Sigmacare, PointClickCare, Wellsky, Visual, etc.)

Salary: $50,000-$70,000

Equal Opportunity Employer

Equal Opportunity Employer Essen Health care is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to work in and serve an ethnically diverse population.