Physician Assistant

City/State: Bronx, New York

Grant Funded: No

Department: Card - Arrhythmia Center

Bargaining Unit: 1199

Work Shift: Day

Work Days: DAYS VARY

Scheduled Hours: 6:30 AM-7 PM

Scheduled Daily Hours: 12.5 HOURS

Hourly Rate: $79.60

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Job Summary

Job Description Summary

The Department of Interventional Cardiology is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Physician Assistant (PA) to work in our Cath Lab and join our growing Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Program. The PA will work collaboratively with interventional cardiologists, advanced practice providers, nurses, and ancillary staff to provide comprehensive care for patients with complex coronary artery disease undergoing evaluation and treatment for CTO interventions. This role is integral to supporting a high-volume, tertiary care CTO program focused on delivering exceptional patient outcomes, advancing innovative therapies, and enhancing the patient experience throughout the continuum of care. As part of this dynamic team the PA will be collaborating with physicians and other health care providers in the planning, evaluation, and coordination of care for our patients in the new inpatient consult, post procedure, and outpatient clinical settings.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for reviewing patient histories, conducting physical exams, and managing the medical care of patients with communicable diseases, providing opiate replacement therapy, and/or primary and preventative care.

*To ensure proper medical care is provided.

• Reports to and supports the physician/medical director (MD) in such a way that the health hub runs in a creative, efficient and integrated fashion

*Provide support to medical staff

• Takes appropriate patient notes and ensures that patient care is logged in NYHRE’s EHR.

*Utilizes specific information in the development of teaching and long term plans.
*Documents patient/involved others’ response to teaching/long term planning.
*Evaluates and documents patient/involved others' response to teaching/long term planning.

• Collaborates and communicates with the RN, CNM, MD and Care Manager for an integrated medical treatment plan for each participant seeking medical services.

*To ensure open communication with physicians outside of the core faculty.

• Writes appropriate medical orders for RN and CNM to follow.

*To ensure all medical orders and documentations are to standards.

• Works with the Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM) to ensure medical supply inventory needs are met.

*Appropriate levels of supplies are available.

Qualifications

• Requirements

Education, Training and Experience

Note: This position requires flexibility to work across multiple campuses PA will be asked to cover both our Moses, Weiler and outpatient clinics

• Bachelor’s degree coupled with Registered as a Physician Assistant in New York State required
• NCCPA certified
• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant Program.
• Experience in interventional cardiology/cardiology preferred, but not required.
• No nights/weekends
• OHS Fit Test
• OHS Annual Assessment

Montefiore Medical Center is an equal employment opportunity employer. Montefiore Medical Center will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.