Physician Assistant (PA) - Advanced Practice Provider
About the role
Physician Assistant (PA) – Advanced Practice Provider at Hamilton Health Box (HHB), a rapidly growing healthcare startup operating hybrid telemedicine‑enabled primary care clinics for small and medium businesses nationwide. The PA will work closely with a supervising physician to manage multiple onsite employer clinics and rural health clinics, providing a combination of virtual and in‑person medical care. The role focuses on building positive relationships with stakeholders and patients through protocol‑driven care, health coaching, disease management, preventative screening, education, and support for urgent and emergent matters. The PA will also design and communicate protocols, gather population health data, identify improvement opportunities, coordinate care, and develop screening protocols.
Responsibilities
- Promote and maintain patient health by providing medical services under physician supervision.
- Identify short‑term and long‑range patient care issues to improve physician efficiency.
- Recommend options and courses of action for patient care and implement physician directives.
- Assess patient health through interviews, physical examinations, and review of medical histories.
- Order, administer, and interpret diagnostic tests such as X‑rays and laboratory studies.
- Document patient care services in charts and departmental records.
- Perform therapeutic procedures including injections, immunizations, suturing, and wound/infection management.
- Instruct and counsel patients on normal growth, development, and emotional health.
- Develop and implement patient‑management plans to provide a continuum of care.
- Maintain a safe, clean working environment by following procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Adhere to infection‑control policies and protect patients and employees.
- Stay compliant with federal, state, and local legal and professional requirements; advise management on legislative changes.
- Collaborate in the development and evaluation of patient care, update clinical guidelines/protocols/pathways, and sign orders as permitted.
- Participate in research and teaching projects and apply research findings to practice.
- Maintain professional knowledge through workshops, publications, networking, and professional societies.
- Develop healthcare team staff by providing education and growth opportunities.
- Utilize telemedicine platforms to complete virtual visits.
- Float and round to multiple facilities as needed.
- Take call by phone on a rotating schedule (one week on, every 3‑4 weeks) with no after‑hours onsite requirements while on call.
Requirements
- Current licensure as a Physician Assistant (PA) with maintenance of licensure and certification.
- Active Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Minimum 2 years of primary care, family medicine, internal medicine, urgent care, or comparable outpatient experience (preferred/required).
- Current DEA registration or ability to obtain it if required.
- Bilingual Spanish/English preferred.
- Willingness to obtain licensure to practice in additional states.
Skills and Qualifications
- Health promotion and maintenance
- Thorough clinical skills
- Ability to inform and educate others
- Excellent communication skills
- Medical teamwork
- Physiological knowledge
- Strong bedside manner
- Infection control expertise
Schedule
On‑site weekdays, day shift. Call responsibilities are phone‑based on a rotating schedule (one week on, every 3‑4 weeks) with no after‑hours onsite duties while on call.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short‑term and long‑term disability insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- 2 weeks of paid time off (PTO)
- Paid company holidays
- Up to $1,000 annually for Continuing Medical Education (CME)
- 3 paid CME days annually
- On‑Demand Pay – access to earned wages before payday