Physician Assistant

Job Detail

• Job Title:

  Physician Assistant

• Department:

  81022-Operating Room Unit

• Location:

• FTE%:

  1

• Shift

• Search #:

  2026-666

• Closing Date:

• Recruiter:

  McNamara, Elizabeth

Additional Links:

• This position is Benefit eligible; click here for an overview of available benefits.
• This position is covered by the UHP Bargaining Unit; click here to review the current UHP Contract.
• This position is in Salary group UHP-18; click here to review the current UHP Pay Plan.

UConn Health is looking for a highly skilled Physician Assistant with a passion for patient experience. This position is accountable for independently performing a full range of tasks in delivery of direct clinical care services. This position will work in the Main Operating Room in the John Dempsey Hospital at UConn Health in Farmington.

SCHEDULE: This is a salaried position, full-time 40-hours per week, five 8-hour shifts with weekends, holidays and on-call, flexible start times.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:

• Provides a broad range of diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services including initial assessment and ongoing medical care

• Works with considerable independence as a member of an interdisciplinary health care team

• Takes medical histories, examines and treats patients/offenders, orders and interprets laboratory tests and x-rays; formulating diagnoses and treatment plans and prescribing medications and monitoring responses to medications and adjusting accordingly

• Documents and records progress notes and notifies attending physician of significant problems

• Performs medical rounds to observe and document pertinent progress of hospitalized patients/offenders

• Orders referrals to specialists as necessary

• Responds to emergency situations

• Counsels and instructs patients/offenders in preventive care and health issues such as effects of nutrition, exercise and prescribed treatments

• Performs minor surgical procedures

• Orders medical devices as necessary

• Attends in-service training programs on various health care services and treatment in conformance with mandated licensure requirements

• Provides education and/or instruction to various health care staff members

• Educates patients/offenders, and guardians regarding disease process

• Communicates to agency health care staff and community providers change in patient/ offender well-being, treatment plan, medication side effects, and appropriateness of daily activities

• May serve on hospital committees Participation in operative, perioperative, and emergency cardiac surgical care

• Support of the institution's academic mission, including education and skills development of trainees and junior providers

• Adherence to institutional policies, quality standards, and patient safety protocols

• Performs all related duties as required

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES :

Considerable knowledge of anatomy and physiology. Knowledge of different disciplines and disease states; knowledge of medication and their interactions and reactions. Physical assessment skills; counseling skills; considerable interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills. Ability to perform invasive procedures. Ability to work independently. Ability to work under pressure. Ability to formulate plans of care. Decision making ability.

EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING :

General Experience :

• Incumbents in this class must possess and maintain licensure as a Physician Assistant issued by the Connecticut State Department of Public Heath in accordance with the applicable Connecticut General Statutes.(Must obtain prior to start of employment)

• Incumbents in this class must possess and maintain Connecticut Controlled Substance Registration for Practitioners issued by the State of Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection. (Must be obtained prior to start of employment)

• Incumbents in this class must possess and maintain United States Drug Enforcement Administration Registration issued by the United States Federal Government.

• Incumbents in this class must possess and maintain eligibility for participation in federal health care programs as defined in 42 U.S. 1320a-7b(f).

• Physician Assistants in this class are required to possess and maintain NCCPA certification.

• Incumbents in this class must complete 100 hours of CME every 2 years.

• Incumbents in this class may be required to travel.

PREFERRED REQUIREMENT:

• Extensive cardiac surgery experience, defined as:

• A minimum of 15 years of direct operating room experience in adult cardiac surgery

• Demonstrated experience with all open cardiac surgery procedures

• Documented experience providing robotic cardiac surgery support

• Advanced conduit harvesting expertise, including:

• Proven proficiency with the Terumo endoscopic vein harvesting system

• Documentation of more than 1,500 endoscopic saphenous vein harvests performed

• Ability to independently perform endoscopic radial artery harvest

• Academic and teaching experience, including:

• A demonstrated history of training, mentoring, and teaching cardiac surgery Physician Assistants, including early-career and newly trained providers

• Professional credentials:

• Eligibility for Connecticut Physician Assistant licensure

• Ability to obtain all required institutional credentials and surgical privileges

• Professional attributes:

• Ability to function effectively as a collaborative team member within a high-acuity, multidisciplinary cardiac surgery environment

• Excellent professional references supporting clinical expertise, reliability, and teaching ability

• Prior direct clinical work experience with the attending cardiac surgeon(s)

• Previous experience providing transitional cardiac surgery coverage in an academic or tertiary care setting

FULL TIME MINIMUM EQUIVALENT SALARY $122,678.00 more based on experience

Why UConn Health

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.

Salary : $122,678