About the position
Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY) is adding a Physician Assistant-Plastic Surgery to the group at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem. Harlem Hospital is a 268-bed hospital that provides a broad array of preventive, primary and acute care services including general medicine and medical subspecialties, general surgery and surgical subspecialties, infectious diseases, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and neonatology, critical care, imaging, radiology and nuclear medicine, rehabilitation medicine, psychiatry and substance abuse services, dental and oral surgery, physical, speech and occupational therapies. They are an Area-Wide Burn Center and Level II Trauma, with Centers of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery, Breast Imaging and Sexual Assault Forensics, a designated Stroke and AIDS Center, a World Health Organization's UNICEF Designated Baby Friendly. The hospital maintains a strong academic affiliation with Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. To maintain its high healthcare delivery standards. The Mission of NYC Health + Hospitals is to extend equally to all New Yorkers, regardless of the ability to pay, comprehensive health services of the highest quality in an atmosphere of humane care, dignity, and respect. Their Values are built on a foundation of social and racial equity and has established the ICARE standards for all staff. NYC Health + Hospitals is the nation's largest municipal health care delivery system in the United States. Dedicated to providing the highest quality health care services to all New Yorkers with compassion, dignity and respect, and regardless of immigration status or ability to pay. Physician Assistants work with any surgical specialty to provide patient care, under the responsibility and supervision of a physician, diagnostic and therapeutic tasks to allow the physician to extend their services. Within the physician/physician assistant relationship, physician assistants may exercise autonomy in decision making within the constraints of appropriate experience and training. Physician Assistant practice is centered on patient care and may include educational, research and administrative activities.
Responsibilities
- Provide patient care under the supervision of a physician.
- Perform diagnostic and therapeutic tasks.
- Exercise autonomy in decision making within the constraints of experience and training.
- Engage in educational, research, and administrative activities.
Requirements
- Current NYS registration as a Physician Assistant.
- Current certification/admissibility issued by the NCCPA.
- BLS Certification.
- Infection Control Certification.
- Proven ability to work in a team environment.
- Ability to interact with patients and their families.
Benefits
- Annual Base Salary: $127,308 to $169,744.
- 401(k) Company Contribution.
- Annual Continuing Medical Education (CME) Reimbursement.
- Generous Annual Paid Time Off (PTO).
- Medical, Prescription, and Dental Coverage.
- Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Coverage.
- Loan Forgiveness eligibility.
- Medical Malpractice Coverage.
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs).
- Pre-tax employee-paid contributions for commuting expenses.
