What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physician Assistant position at Kansas City Orthopedic Alliance?
Kansas City Orthopedic Alliance is the largest, independently owned orthopedic specialty practice in the Kansas City metro area.
We are looking for an advanced practice provider — Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner — who is genuinely interested in orthopedics and wants to practice at the top of the field. This is a part-time, principally clinic-based role, roughly 20–25 hours per week, supporting a sports medicine and knee-and-shoulder surgical practice — including arthroplasty and fractures about the knee and shoulder and some general orthopedic fracture work. Our approach is high-skill, high-tech, with an unwavering commitment to clinical excellence.
The Role
We are looking for an advanced practice provider — Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner — who is genuinely interested in orthopedics and wants to practice at the top of the field. This is a part-time, principally clinic-based role, roughly 20–25 hours per week, supporting a sports medicine and knee-and-shoulder surgical practice — including arthroplasty and fractures about the knee and shoulder and some general orthopedic fracture work. Our approach is high-skill, high-tech, with an unwavering commitment to clinical excellence.
The Role
- This is principally a clinic-based support role.
- Responsibilities include new patient consultation and follow-up evaluations.
- You should be confident with routine fracture care, post-operative management, and presurgical screening and preparation.
- The ideal candidate will be comfortable evaluating and managing patients with a high degree of autonomy while working collaboratively with the supervising orthopedic surgeon. The weekly clinic schedule can be flexible.
- There are limited call responsibilities including occasional assistance with weekend rounds, and inpatient consults.
- You will be joining a fun, highly collaborative team consisting of a fellowship-trained, board-certified orthopedic surgeon and two amazing part-time nurse practitioners who function as a cohesive unit. We want to onboard a strong team player who also has a sense of humor.
- Ability to sit, stand & bend; walk and stand for long periods of time
- Ability to lift and carry objects up to 50 pounds
- Requires a full range of body motion including lifting patients, pushing, and pulling with and without assistance, manual and finger dexterity and coordination, normal visual and auditory acuity
- Push and pull 500 lbs. with assistance
- Position will work in a hospital/clinical area with exposure to blood and body fluids and possible exposure to communicable or infectious disease and other conditions common to the hospital/clinical area