Acupuncturist (Part-Time)

Tia

Tia

Posted on Oct 7, 2024

Role Title: Acupuncturist (Part-Time)

Compensation: $40-$45/hr

Schedule: 18hrs/week

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
  • Adaptability in an ever changing start-up environment

Skills and assets you’ll bring to Tia:

  • An active license in Acupuncture (L.Ac, DAIM, DAOM) in NY
  • 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
  • Training and knowledge of Trauma Informed Care is a plus
  • Documentation requirements of billing insurance
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills - both with your patients and your team members

Other “nice to have” skills:

  • As an organization that seeks to create an environment for all women to feel safe, heard, recognized and avowed in their health, bodies and lives, we are consistently seeking providers with backgrounds that are meaningfully different from those already forming our team. You bring a diverse background, a range of care experiences in different communities or various modalities.
  • Formal professional training in the following areas and an ability to train your team on these topics is highly valued: care delivery for women who have experienced trauma including having a lived experience of abuse, decision making support for low-income women and care delivery for LGBTQIA identified folks
  • A strong understanding of & interest in chronic stress and trauma as it relates to immune system compromise and inflammatory response systems is a plus.
  • Experience in a start-up or healthcare technology environment

Tia requires that Acupuncturists complete credentialing with specified payors and that you authorize Tia to complete this credentialing through our preferred vendors.

Benefits

  • Talented and collaborative team who will both support and challenge you.
  • Market competitive salary plus performance-based bonuses

This position may require attendance at company and team off-sites and is subject the Company’s vaccine requirement, as permitted by law and subject to reasonable accommodation.

Tia is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users and patients. We strongly encourage people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community to apply.

If you are committed to collaborative problem solving, creating high-quality and user-centric products, and want to make waves in women's healthcare, join us!

About us:

Founded in 2017 by Carolyn Witte and Felicity Yost, Tia is the modern medical home for women. We are 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 fuses gynecology, primary care, mental health and evidence-based wellness services to treat women comprehensively. 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.

Tia has raised more than $132 Million in venture capital funding to date, including a recent $100 Million Series B investment, one of the largest early-stage rounds ever for a healthcare company focused on women. Tia has ambitious plans to scale its “whole-woman, whole-life” model to more than 100,000 women by 2023. We’ll do this by growing virtual and in-person operations in existing and new markets while expanding its service lines to care for women throughout their entire lives -- from puberty to menopause. Since launching in 2017, Tia has grown to serve thousands of women aged 18-80 with blended in-person and virtual care in New York City, Los Angeles, Phoenix and soon San Francisco.

We’re building a world class team to reimagine women’s healthcare. We’re an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, researchers, designers, technologists and operators who have seen firsthand how broken the healthcare system is for women. We’re united by a powerful mission to enable every woman to achieve optimal health, as defined by herself, as well as a shared set of values and principles that define our business, products, and culture.

Tia is building a culture of excellence — in people, process and product. This is our northstar value;

What is excellence, exactly?

Excellence about constantly elevating yourself, it is the process of constantly striving to perform to the best of your abilities, and identifying your top potential through constant learning, experimentation and evolution. Excellence is not about achieving perfection, as that insinuates a pinnacle. Instead, in our terms, excellence is about the pursuit of constant improvement. We’re looking for people who want to go on that hard journey of constantly setting new personal records, and organizational records.

We practice excellence at Tia by demonstrating the following types of behaviors: We chose (and actively choose) excellence as Tia’s highest order value because it crystalizes into one word several behaviors that we hold dear, specifically:

  1. A drive to constantly improve through experimentation, reflection. and an insatiable growth mindset — said another way, we’re energized by the possibility of invention, innovation, and iteration

  2. Being present in and grateful for the journey — not just the goal line. Perfection is static. Excellence is a process (more on this important distinction below)

  3. Asking why, then why again — because accepting “this is just the way it is” is not good enough

  4. Grit & perseverance — a maker mentality that involves “rolling up your sleeves”, but also deep care for oneself and for others

  5. A commitment to uncovering talents to unlock “rock star” potential across every individual

Furthermore, excellence reflects the “bigness” and the “boldness” of Tia’s mission and vision — a world in which every woman can achieve optimal health, as defined by herself.

Said another way, Tia’s mission is NOT to make healthcare incrementally better for women. Instead, we’ve intentionally set out to create a fundamentally new paradigm for modern women’s healthcare that’s truly excellent. We believe that creating a company that operates in a culture of excellence will manifest in our product. Reaching this goal is not an overnight pursuit or a “one and done.” We have not and will not “get it right” with the first swing. Rather, this higher order goal is a moving target — one we have not and will not ever fully “achieve.” By design, we will never be “done” with this work, but instead, we will be continuously in pursuit of our mission. It is this continuous pursuit — the journey, not the finish line — that truly embodies excellence.