Physician Assistant Orthopedic Surgery Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Physician Assistant Orthopedic Surgery to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Constantly seeing, hearing, and speaking;
- Provides inpatient care with recommendations from medicine service and Physical Therapists;
- Discharges patient, provides follow up care and appointments;
- Works with Social Worker to place patients needing additional rehabilitation;
- Performs physical evaluations, including post-op and follow-up exams;
- Obtains Veterans relevant health and medical information;
- Strong organization and documentation skills;
- Performs history and physicals for surgical patients;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
- Provides health education and counseling to Veteran and family members;
- Formulates Veterans treatment plan;
- Frequent lifting to 20+ lbs. in addition to bending, reaching, standing, walking, and kneeling;
- Screens surgical candidates for health and medical risk factors;
- Ability to lift, sit, stand, or squat;
- Willingness to expand current surgical expertise and learn how to assist on different specialties.
Requirements:
- Board Certification: Certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician’s Assistants (NCCPA);
- Shall have a minimum of two years experience within the past three years providing services in an Orthopedic department;
- Current, full, active, and unrestricted license as a Physician Assistant;
- Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS);
- Anticipated work schedule: Days: Monday – Friday 50 Hour Work Week;
- Estimated Office patients per day = 15;
- Call Rotation;
- The department has 15 Physicians, 10 APC’s and 35 Additional Staff Members;
- FTE = 1.0 Full Time Position;
- The Orthopedic department is a very team focused, collaborative group that embraces learning while treating a wide variety of patients;
- Inpatient Responsibilities: 2-4/week;
- Estimated procedures per day = 4-5;
- Clinic Work = 60% Hospital Work = 40%
- The ideal candidate will be someone who has a background working in Orthopedics and Surgery.