Physician Assistant (PA-C) - On-Call Night Coverage, State Psychiatric Facility - McAllen, TX

CLFC Healthcare and Communications • McAllen, TX

49d • $150,000 - $200,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Join CLFC delivering critical after-hours medical coverage at Rio Grande State Center, an inpatient psychiatric facility serving an underserved South Texas population. This is a night-only, 1099 opportunity for an experienced Texas-licensed Physician Assistant to earn strong supplemental income while keeping your daytime position. The schedule is overnight, 5:00 PM to 8:00 AM, with flexible nights and primary and relief rotations. Coverage is primarily on-call availability; actual encounters vary by facility need.

Requirements

• Active, unrestricted Texas PA license (PA-C); copy required
• Current NCCPA certification; ARC-PA accredited program
• Active DEA registration or eligibility
• Current BLS; able to respond on-site within the facility-required time
• Malpractice $1M/$3M prior to start; clean NPDB history

Nice To Haves

• Inpatient or psychiatric PA experience
• Emergency, hospital, correctional, or urgent-care background
• CAQ-Psychiatry
• ACLS
• CPI/MOAB
• Within ~45 minutes of Harlingen
• Bilingual English and Spanish

Responsibilities

• Overnight on-call coverage for a state inpatient psychiatric facility
• Post-restraint face-to-face evaluations per facility protocol
• History and physical (H&P) admitting evaluations
• Identify acute medical causes of behavioral change; coordinate with on-call psychiatry

Benefits

• $800 guaranteed for every overnight on-call period, paid even if no encounter occurs
• $175 per post-restraint evaluation
• $225 per H&P
• $2,500 sign-on bonus
• IRS-rate mileage
• Full credentialing, privileging, and malpractice coordination handled by CLFC
• CLFC arranges your Texas-registered supervising physician
• Prompt payment
• Multi-year contract

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree