Physician Assistant

Site: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.

Job Summary

Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, businesspeople, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.

At the Mass General Brigham Heart & Vascular Institute, our cardiology, cardiac surgery, and vascular care teams collaborate seamlessly to provide comprehensive, patient-centered heart and vascular care. Our cardiologists focus on diagnosing and managing heart conditions, our cardiac surgeons perform life-saving procedures like bypass surgery and valve repair, and our vascular specialists treat circulatory disorders affecting the arteries and veins, ensuring each patient receives a personalized, multidisciplinary approach for optimal heart and vascular health.

The Physician Assistant (PA) is a licensed provider. The PA is responsible for the assessment and management of a population of patients being evaluated for or diagnosed with peripheral vascular disease, requiring medical and/or surgical management, including diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, development of appropriate plans of care, and ongoing evaluation. The Physician Assistant will function in a clinical care role in partnership with vascular & endovascular surgery clinicians and other key stakeholders. The role is predominantly based out of Brigham & Women's Hospital (Boston) with time allocated to community-based Mass General Brigham Healthcare Centers located in Chestnut Hill and Foxborough.

Qualifications

Clinical Duties:

• Provides direct care, counseling, and teaching to the peripheral vascular disease patient population primarily in the ambulatory setting, but may also require occasional work in the inpatient, operative, and procedural settings.
• Performs complete history and physical examinations.
• Orders, interprets, and evaluates appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests.
• Develops appropriate plans of care and follow-up based on the outcomes of diagnostic, laboratory, and physical examination findings.
• Orders medications and writes prescriptions according to organizational and regulatory policies and procedures.
• Consistently provides high quality and timely documentation including consult notes, progress notes, procedure notes, operative notes, and admission/discharge summaries.
• Performs procedures as appropriate to the patient population, including but not limited to venous care and temporal artery biopsies.
• Participates in the Vascular Surgery Advanced Practice Provider of the Day urgent care coverage.

Communication:

• Clear and direct in verbal and written communication.
• Effective in facilitating group processes of decision-making for patients, caregivers, and staff.
• Is empathic and respectful.
• Is congruent with interpretation of plan of care to members of care team.
• Accepts responsibility for conflict resolution between patients, caregivers, and staff.

Professional Development:

• Engages in self-performance appraisal on a regular basis, identifying areas of strength as well as areas for professional growth and practice development.
• Identifies learning needs and goals on a regular basis and designs a plan to meet them.
• Maintains necessary clinical skills through continuing education and direct clinical practice.
• Establishes self as a resource in areas of the hospital where expertise may be required.
• Collaborates with leadership in identification of current and future service needs and shares responsibility for meeting these needs.
• Maintains membership in one or more national peripheral vascular disease organizations.

Quality Assurance & Process Improvement:

• Participates in regular case review, data analysis, and quality improvement efforts.
• Participates in policy, procedure, and standards of care development, implementation, and review.
  Recommend changes in practice, as needed.

Additional Job Details (if applicable)

Skills/Abilities/Competencies:

• Integrates theoretical knowledge base and clinical expertise in decision making.
• Advocates for patients, caregivers, coworkers, and community members.
• Consistently demonstrates accountability.
• Champions collaborative practice with coworkers and other disciplines and departments.
• Consistently demonstrates compassion to internal and external stakeholders.
• Dynamically represents the program in internal and external forums.
• Exemplifies professional behavior.
• Fluent in verbal and written language skills; effective communicator.
• Computer skills to support clinical & administrative tasks, including EHR & Microsoft Office.
• Possession of collaboration and team-building skills.
• Ability to receive and incorporate feedback, as well as provide constructive feedback to others.
• Flexibility and active participant in change management.

Licenses/Certification/Registration:

• Current Massachusetts licensure as a Physician Assistant.
• Current Physician Assistant certification.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification, desirable.

Education:

• Master's degree Physician Assistant Studies.
• Graduate of an accredited physician assistant studies program.

Experience:

• 2 years clinical experience caring for patients with peripheral vascular disease, desirable.
• Working knowledge of Epic electronic health record, desirable.

Fiscal Responsibility:

• Maintains eligible enrollment with contracted health insurance providers.
• Completes documentation and submits charges for reimbursement in a timely manner.
• Actively participates in the fiscal health of the department through the revenue cycle and expense management processes.

Working Conditions:

• Ambulatory care, medical office, acute care hospital environments.
• Includes work at acute care hospitals and community-based ambulatory health care centers.
• Occasional travel for off-site training sessions and meetings.

Remote Type

Onsite

Work Location

45 Francis Street

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Employee Type

Regular

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Pay Range

$120, $170,456.00/Annual

Grade

7

At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. Our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive, and any offer extended will take into account your skills, relevant experience if applicable, education, certifications and other essential factors. The base pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications; however, it does not encompass all elements contributing to your total compensation package. In addition to competitive base pay, we offer comprehensive benefits, career advancement opportunities, differentials, premiums and bonuses as applicable and recognition programs designed to celebrate your contributions and support your professional growth. We invite you to apply, and our Talent Acquisition team will provide an overview of your potential compensation and benefits package.

EEO Statement:

2200 The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran's Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at

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