Acupuncturist - SF (Part-Time)

Role Title: Acupuncturist (Part-Time)

Compensation: $58 - $62/hr

Schedule: 18 hours - 6 hour shifts three times a week - Any day with a preference for Fridays

Location: San Francisco Tia Clinic

Tia is on a mission to transform healthcare for women by increasing access to and improving the experience of key preventive healthcare services. Known as the best and only way to both transform outcomes and reduce cost, Tia’s preventive care model focuses on integrating key services across primary care, mental health, gynecology, dermatology and other wellness services. Tia is trailblazing a new paradigm for women’s healthcare that treats women as whole people vs. parts or life stages.  Blending in-person and virtual care services, Tia’s “Whole Woman, Whole Life” care model is a unique and “life-long” model for women’s care. By making women’s health higher quality and lower cost, Tia makes women healthier, providers happier, and the business of care delivery stronger — setting a new standard of care for women everywhere.

Role Summary: As an Acupuncturist at Tia, your role in this transformative health-tech company will be instrumental in supporting our collaborative care model by upholding principles of excellent, compassionate, and holistic health care. As a Tia acupuncturist you’ll be a key component of our wellness service offerings. You will weave the TCM/Integrative medicine perspective into our educational offerings, collaborate with allopathic providers and deliver acupuncture care. You will work as part of a proactive and integrative acupuncture team alongside our primary care, wellness, mental health, and psychiatric service lines conducting one-on-one highly-tailored acupuncture treatments to address physical, emotional, and behavioral aspects of health. 

About the Role: 

• Work committed hours and maintain a consistent schedule to support your patient caseload 
• Provide excellent acupuncture services; deliver up to 3 sessions per hour, develop collaborative treatment plans and conduct appropriate referrals as needed
• Complete timely documentation using our custom platform for an accurate and complete medical record

Values:

• You’re motivated to elevate integrated women’s care by bringing the following values to the care you provide to clients:
• Compassion & understanding that people’s emotions are their reality
• Integrity in patient care
• Holistic patient care
• Personalized care
• Be driven to achieve excellence
• A shared-decision making approach to women’s health. 
• Body literate, compassionate + trauma informed care 
• You’re facile with technology
• You’re consistently incorporating new and evolving research into your day-to-day practice and teaching
• Adaptability in an ever changing start-up environment
• You are a tolerant and inclusive thinker. You believe in sex-positive, no judgment and radically inclusive healthcare for every person, and espouse these values in your everyday life.

Abilities: 

• Compassionately listen to patient problems
• Deliver Acupuncture services excellently 
• Demonstrate compassion and composure under pressure
• Skilled at collaborating cross functionally
• Deep understanding of female health “medical” diagnoses and translate those into traditional Chinese Medicine and integrative medicine thinking
• Develop a care plan for patients based on patient complaints/concerns and follow up with patients to ensure comprehension and compliance
• Counsel patients on usage of herbs, supplements, meditation / mindfulness other appropriate lifestyle modifications
• Carry the emotional unload of patients through a full day of patient load without showing burden to the patients
• Maintain composure and calm while balancing load of up to 3 patients per hour

Skills: 

• An active license in Acupuncture (L.Ac, DAIM, DAOM) in CA
• Strong knowledge and deep understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine including but not limited to; acupuncture, herbology, cupping, moxibustion
• Working knowledge and understanding of Chinese herbal medicine, supplements and meditation practices to advance patient coaching, preferred
• Understand contraindications and/or pharmaceutical combinations to ensure safe compliance with herbal medicines and supplements, preferred
• Knowledge and understanding of complex female hormone milieu and experience in treating common GYN concerns including but not limited to Endometriosis, PCOS, Amenorrhea, Infertility, Fibroids, Irregular Menstrual Cycles