Physician Assistant Ambulatory Malignant Hematology at MGBCI

Malignant Hematology Oncology Physician Assistant

The malignant hematology oncology PA provides comprehensive ambulatory care to one or more disease specific medical oncology patient populations. With an interdisciplinary team approach, this provider promotes a collaborative relationship between all providers, professional nurses, and administrative staff, to ensure continuity of patient care and efficient use of resources. The PA is responsible for the assessment and management of medical malignant hematology oncology patients, including diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and development and implementation of appropriate plans of care across the trajectory of illness for patients. The malignant hematology oncology PA will assist in providing continuity support in the event of a patient admission in order to advance the plan of care.

In addition to providing direct and indirect patient care, the malignant hematology oncology PA serves as a role model for professional advanced practice and participates in the professional development of the team through teaching, committee involvement or quality and safety initiatives. The hematology oncology PA will provide thorough, compassionate, culturally sensitive clinical care and should demonstrate operational flexibility and strong leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills in order to work effectively with other members of the team.

Responsibilities include performing comprehensive histories and physical examinations, completing high quality and timely documentation, participating in scheduled encounters, maintaining capacity for urgent care for the evaluation for complex symptom evaluation and management and improving access for newly diagnosed hematology oncology patients, ordering, interpreting, and evaluating appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests, ensuring appropriate diagnostic procedures occur in a timely manner through careful coordination with other services, performing specialized procedures particular to the select medical oncology population, following and managing patients in collaboration with MD enhancing continuity of care across the trajectory of illness, developing appropriate plans of care and follow-up based on the outcomes of diagnostic, laboratory, and physical examination findings, facilitating patient movement through the system and efficient use of resources through interdepartmental collaboration, facilitating and co-managing communications between physicians, patients, family, and staff, ordering medications and writing prescriptions, inclusive of standard of care antineoplastics and oncologic investigational new drugs according to organizational and regulatory policies and procedures, participating in research efforts to advance knowledge and to promote research-based practice, appreciating the complex medical environments of cancer patients including, but not limited to, those with advanced malignancy or organ dysfunction and the risk for complex drug interactions, maintaining and updating clinical knowledge and skills based on current health care practice/research.

Qualifications

Education & Licensure

• Master's Degree Physician Assistant required.
• DEA registration required and current PA license to practice in Massachusetts required.

Experience

• Minimum 5 years' current licensed Physician Assistant experience caring for an Oncology focused patient population required.
• Clinical Physician Assistant experience in an ambulatory practice managing a malignant hematologic oncology focused patient population required.
• Clinical experience ordering and/or administering antineoplastics, immunotherapies, and cellular therapy products preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proficiency with Epic EMR.
• Telemedicine experience.
• Strong managerial and leadership presence and ability to provide & direct feedback and guidance to staff preferred.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Results-oriented and exhibits a strong attention to detail.
• Expert clinical judgment skills to function in the independent role.
• Procedural proficiency for hematologic oncologic specific procedures including bone marrow biopsy, lumbar puncture, and skin biopsies.
• Excellent interpersonal relationship and communication skills in order to collaborate with patients' families, staff, and community health workers.
• Ability to work with frequent stress resulting from busy clinical settings and changing organizational climate.
• Ability to be self-directive and demonstrate initiative in addressing responsibilities of position.
• Ability to utilize appropriate problem solving and conflict resolution skills.