Gatewood Urology - Full-Time PA

About the role

Advocate Health Group Practice: High Point Gatewood - Urology offers full-time benefits eligible positions. This role is located at High Point Gatewood, part of the University Group Practice.

Responsibilities

• Using medical decision-making skills to determine appropriate patient care plan.
• Collaborates with medical team when needed for effective team-based care.
• Orders and interprets laboratory studies and diagnostic procedures.
• Explains the necessity, preparation, nature and anticipated effects of scheduled diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to the patient.
• Performs procedural skills per department or practice guidelines.
• Opportunity to participate in basic science and clinical research projects.
• Potential for and encouraged to precept students and/or medical learners.
• Upholds AHWFB missions, values, and cultural commitment.
• Performs other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited Physician Assistant Program, Master's degree preferred.
• LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR REGISTRATION: Current applicable state Medical Board Medical License, Certified by NCCPA.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to maintain composure and work efficiently under pressure.
• Ability to perform complex patient diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
• Exemplary organizational skills.
• Willingness to perform other related duties other than those described herein.

Skills

• Proper physical requirements to perform the essential functions of the job.

Physical Requirements

• Standing: 35%
• Walking: 35%
• Sitting: 65%
• Bending: 100%
• Reaching with arms: 100%
• Finger and hand dexterity: 100%
• Talking: 100%
• Hearing: 100%
• Seeing: 100%
• Lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling: 20 lbs. maximum

Work Environment

Efficient team-based care, professional and customer service skills.

Our Commitment to You

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

• Compensation
• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Family benefits
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Education Assistance Program

About Advocate Health

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits. Participates in team-focused patient care by means of patient examinations augmented by diagnostic and therapeutic evaluations/interventions in the medical and/or surgical theatres of health care. The clinician functions under the regulatory mandate from their respective licensing organization (applicable state Medical Board or applicable state Board of Nursing) with departmental specific credentialing from the institution.