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Qualified applicants please submit resume
with salary history to:

Attn: Human Resources
United Health Centers
650 Zediker Avenue
Parlier, CA 93648

The Human Resource department is located at the following office:
545 East Manning Ave.
Suite 109
Parlier, CA 93648

Toll Free: 800-775-2271
Telephone: 559-646-6900
Fax: 559-646-6906
Email: canoc@unitedhealthcenters.org
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Position: Physician
Location: Parlier/Mendota/Earlimart/Sanger/Kerman/Huron
Reports to: Chief Medical Officer
Status: Full-time

Responsibilities: 
 To provide primary health care within the United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley Inc.'s health Centers, including education, preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures. To provide screening and triage of walk-in patients, as deemed necessary. To participate in the planning and management of health services of the United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley Inc., as deemed necessary by the Chief Medical Officer. This is to include participation in review of the quality care being rendered at United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley Inc., the development of health care protocols and procedures, and the participation in the policy making within the Medical Department. Within the protocols developed physician assistant, Family Nurse Practitioners may exercise a wide range of clinical judgment. Specifically, the Family Nurse Practitioners are to provide health maintenance screening for children, pregnant patients, and adults, acute care for walk in patients, care for patients with chronic stable conditions.

Requirements: 
 1. Fulfill all the covenants of the Physician's contract.
2. Provide primary health care within the Health Center, including educational, preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures.
3. Supervise nurse practitioners, physician assistants, medical students, and other providers of health care, as necessary.
4. Assure that the health care provided by the Health Center is of the highest quality and consistent with established procedures and protocols.
5. Participate in the planning and management of health services of the Health Center as deemed necessary by the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Executive Officer.
6. Provide ongoing patient care to those registered patients of the Health Center who are hospitalized at the local community hospital, or who are patients in the local nursing homes, or arrange for such care.
7. Refer patients, when appropriate, to specialized institutions and /or physicians for diagnostic and therapeutic measures beyond the scope of services rendered at the Health Center. This includes but is not limited to surgery, diagnostic work-ups, specialized therapeutic regimes, etc.
8. Participate in medical staff training meetings as determined by the Chief Medical Officer. Participates in review of the quality of care being rendered at the Health Center, developing health care protocols and procedures, and the participant's in policy making within the Medical Department.
9. Participates in continuing education, not less than 25 hours per year; or that required to meet levels required by certification, licensing or board organizations.
10. Practice medicine within the range and type of health care services offered by the Health Center.


Position: Pharmacist
Location: Mendota
Reports to: Director of Pharmacy
Status: Full-time

Responsibilities: 
 Directs and coordinates all pharmacy activities of assigned pharmacy. Supervise and coordinate activities of pharmacy personnel. Responsible for adherence to rules and regulations pertaining to administrative and professional policy of department. Maintains and adheres to the clinic Drug Formulary and encourages the use of the formulary system. Serves as drug consultant to the medical staff, medical personnel (nurses, MAs, etc.) as well as to patients. Initiates pharmacy staff meetings, etc. and recommends personnel actions (promotions, performance evaluations, etc.) to the Director of Pharmacy. Assists Director in planning and instruction of pharmacy student interns. Represent Director at Center staff meetings or other meetings as required. Develops strong community relations through day-to-day contact with community.

Requirements: 
 Graduation from an accredited school of pharmacy; graduate from a Doctor of Pharmacy program preferred; must have current California pharmacy license; two to five years experience as a practicing clinical pharmacist preferred. Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.

Position: Systems Administrator
Location: Parlier
Reports to: Director of Information Technology
Status: Full-time

Responsibilities: 
 Responsible for the administration of assigned systems; includes, but not limited to: system functionality, general maintenance, configuration, system parameters, documentation, and testing required to support current and new system releases. Identify and solve complex issues as they relate to system and/or business functionality and efficiencies. Facilitate troubleshooting, problem identification, and issue resolution. Schedule, review, and coordinate medium to large-scale system upgrades/installations and ensure compliance with subsequent interfaced or integrated systems. Provide leadership and guidance to less experienced administrators.
1. Confer with management, staff, and users to determine requirements for new systems, modifications, or upgrades. Perform analysis to facilitate salutation for business needs. Collect and analyze detailed requirements for projects and develop functional specifications and proposed system flow charts.
2. Perform routine system maintenance, error report review, analysis and resolution. Coordinate resolution of system errors and issues through the use of tickets. Schedule, coordinate, and test application and system upgrades and/or installations in accordance with system and/or client requirements.
3. Create, monitor, and update project plans for large projects. Coordinate and facilitate project meetings, develop necessary project documentation, and keep team members involved and informed. Maintain records of communications, issues, and remedial actions taken.
4. Act as liaison between departments, units, programmer analysts, team members, and vendors/system contracts in support of application upgrades, and/or development and implementation.
5. Maintain and update complete sets of system documentation, including interfaces with other system and business related requirements.
6. Perform application recovery risk assessment for Disaster Recovery Plan.
7. Provide leadership, guidance and backup support to other application administers or analysts within the department.
8. Requires the ability to be sufficiently mobile throughout the facility and occasionally travel to sites in other states.

Requirements: 
 Knowledge: Working knowledge of HTML and/or other web development tools required. Knowledge of common programming languages and database query languages (Visual Basic, VBA, SQL) and database applications (Access, Oracle) desirable. Skills: Strong communication, analytical, and problem solving skills. Excellent written skills. Ability to work in a high stress environment with critical deadlines. Experience: Minimum 4 years experience working with and supporting applications and systems using various software and hardware platforms; four years experience performing software installations and working with internal IT staff and clients, and external vendor support personnel. Minimum three years experience working with business applications, database architecture, operating systems, client/server technology, and various hardware platforms. High School diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or related field; and/or equivalent and relevant experience.

Position: Support Analyst
Location: Parlier
Reports to: Director of Information Technology
Status: Full-time

Responsibilities: 
 Serves as a single point of contact for all IT service requests. Provides information technology support to employees to resolve technology issues. When necessary, documents and delegates response to another technician for response.

Requirements: 
 Degree in a related field or a commensurate combination of education and experience required. Prior helpdesk experience required with a proven record of providing quality support. Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be able to communicate effectively over the phone. Must have a working knowledge of computer hardware, operating systems and software, including Microsoft Office, Windows and MS Exchange/Outlook. Must also have the proven ability to comprehend and learn new hardware and software technologies. .Must have the demonstrated ability to visualize and conceptualize user problems from a distance and work with user to resolve issues. Must have excellent customer service skills and have the ability to manage multiple priorities and demands on a daily basis. Must have the ability to work with users at all levels of skills and abilities.

Position: Clinic Manger
Location: Orange Cove and Sanger
Reports to: Chief Operations Officer
Status: Full-time

Responsibilities: 
 Responsible for the professional and administrative work of the health centers day-to-day operations at assigned center by directing, supervising and coordinating staff to provide quality, cost-effective care. Prepares clinic budget, places controls over budget expenditure, etc. Represents the corporation for the purpose of dealing with licensing requirements and requirements of other regulatory agencies. Evaluates staff efforts, measures process and evaluates programs. Also participates in the evaluation of Quality Improvement. Maintains good and effective communication with the business units of the corporation, community organizations, and state and federal agencies.

Requirements: 
 AA or AS with course work in Business Administration, Health Science, or related field; Bachelor's degree in related field preferred; minimum of three years experience in hospital or ambulatory care and must have knowledge of fundamental health care organizations and administration. Patient accounting with demonstrated above-standard performance; knowledge of benefits, covered services, billing and reimbursement procedures of all payer types, as well as working knowledge of the legal aspects of collection procedures, knowledge of medical, dental and billing terminology; knowledge of CHDP, SOFP, Presumptive and Managed Care Medi-Cal programs; experience and knowledge of online patient accounting systems with emphasis on clinical systems; demonstrated leadership experience and/or special projects motivating groups of people; person-to-person or via the telephone; ability to manage multiple projects, and meet established deadlines; ability to keep neat and accurate files; Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.

Position: Registered Dietician
Location: Reedley/Orange Cove, Sanger/Parlier, Riverdale/Huron, or Kerman/Mendota
Reports to: WIC Nutrition Assistant Supervisor
Status: Full-time

Responsibilities: 
 Under general direction of the WIC Nutrition Assistant II, the Registered Dietitian II is responsible for conducting nutrition assessments and providing appropriate nutrition education sessions. Is responsible for the referrals, participant orientation, issuance of food instruments, scheduling appointments, answering telephones, income, residence, and category screening, certification documentation, nutritional assessment, nutrition education, development of individual education nutrition plan, nutrition counseling and prescription of food instruments. Assists in planning of nutrition education topics and outlines for classes.

Requirements: 
 B.A. or B.S. Degree from an accredited college in Nutrition or Dietetics. Completion of an internship in a program approved by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). Registration with the Commission on Dietetic Registration for the ADA, Registered Dietitian (RD). Education/training or work experience in computer basics and data entry. Ability to learn and understand ISIS Program Application. Ability to work as a team member. Ability to communicate effectively in interviewing, group education and one-to-one counseling, situations for levels 1-4 participants. Knowledge and understanding of and sensitivity to area minority groups and their socioeconomic backgrounds and cultures. Ability to make appropriate decisions regularly and organize work effectively, with limited supervision. Ability to provide effective assistance to paraprofessional staff.

Position: Breastfeeding Education Coordinator
Location: Reedley
Reports to: WIC Program Coordinator
Status: Part-time

Responsibilities: 
 Under the general direction of the WIC Program Coordinator, the WIC Breastfeeding Education Coordinator plans, administers and evaluates the delivery of the Breastfeeding Education Services of the WIC Program, by developing and implementing method and materials for teaching, provides staff training and assesses staff/WIC Participants Breastfeeding Education needs.

Requirements: 
 B.A. or B.S. Degree from and accredited college in Nutrition or Dietetics. Completion of an internship in a program approved by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). Registration with the commission on Dietetic Registration for ADA, Registered Dietitian (R.D.) In addition, Certified Lactation Educator (C.L.E.) preferred. Ability to work as a team member, communicate effectively, in writing and verbally. Ability to organize and present information on a one-to-one and/or group setting. Knowledge and experience in word processing/spreadsheet/e-mail application. Ability to plan and implement activities related to the delivery of Breastfeeding Education services in the WIC program. Oversees this process at all nine WIC sites. Skillful to organize work and perform it in a neat, thorough, effective manner, handling multiple projects, and meeting deadlines. Ability to learn quick and function under very limited supervision. Perform several tasks simultaneously and make responsible decisions according to established policies. Training new staff and current staff on methods used in delivery of Breastfeeding education services to WIC participants. Knowledge, understanding and sensitivity to minority groups and their socio-economic backgrounds and cultures. Have knowledge of adult education philosophies and methods, individual education techniques, infant development related to nutrition, breastfeeding education techniques and customer service. Bilingual, Spanish/English preferred and Valid California Driver's License required.

Position: Nutrition Education Coordinator
Location: Reedley
Reports to: WIC Program Coordinator
Status: Part-time

Responsibilities: 
 Under the general direction of the WIC Program Coordinator, the WIC Nutrition Education Coordinator plans, administers and evaluates the delivery of the Nutrition Education Services of the WIC Program, by developing and implementing methods and materials for teaching, provides staff training and assesses staff/WIC Participants Nutrition Education needs.

Requirements: 
 B.A. or B.S. Degree from an accredited college in Nutrition or Dietetics. Completion of an internship in a program approved by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). Registration with the Commission on Dietetic Registration for the ADA, Registered Dietitian (RD).

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Local travel is required for most of these positions to our sites located throughout the Central Valley. We offer competitive pay and excellent benefits for our staff as well as the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment.