Job Description

A true leader aims to inspire and at Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation, that?s exactly what our nurse leaders do. They have a strong combination of clinical skills, management abilities and integrity, and as a result, they play an indispensable role in the success of our organization. We embrace a culture of passion and dedication at Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation. Now we invite you to join us from working with a team of exceptional healthcare professionals, and you?ll have everything you need to do something incredible for yourself, and for others.

Our Coastal Orthopedic Group is a leader in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of orthopedic and sports-related injuries and illnesses. We are seeking an experienced Surgical Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner who will provide health care services to patients under direction and responsibility of one of the group?s physicians who specializes in General Sports Medicine. This role will have an element of clinic work and surgical first assist assignments. You will assist in diagnosing General Sports Medicine related injuries and illnesses; order and interpret diagnostic tests and exams, develop, and manage treatment plans, and prescribe medications as needed, and offer advice on preventative health care. You may serve as a principal healthcare provider where you will incorporate both independent decision-making abilities and collaboration with the physician to provide expert care to the patients.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Will provide assistance with treating and triaging patients in the group?s Torrance and El Segundo locations.
• This role is a combination of clinic which will be 3-4 days per week and O/R days (average 1 day per week) which will vary.
• Under the direction of the Supervising Physician, you will conduct patient assessments, order or directly provide treatments, and provide patient education and support.
• Promotes and maintains patient health by providing medical services under the direction of the Supervising Physician.
• Assess patient health by interviewing patients; performs comprehensive physical examination; compiles patient medical data, including health history and results of physical examination.
• Work under protocol to develop an effective, safe and patient-centered treatment plan.
• Provide timely and complete clinical documentation in the EHR following patient visits or telephone calls.
• Maintain ongoing communication with the supervising physicians regarding assigned patients and provide timely notification of changes in patient status.
• Attend case conferences, clinical rounds, and other types of meetings which address patient management and care coordination as required.
• Maintain ongoing communication with other members of the entire care team through written documentation, telephone or in-person conversation.
• Partner with the patient to develop contracts of care as needed and provide encouragement and motivational support to promote adherence to treatment plans.
• Ensure timely access of patient appointments.
• Perform other duties as determined collaboratively by the Supervising Physicians that are within the scope of practice of a physician assistant and the health care institution's policies.
• May provide coverage to other providers within the group whose PA or NP is away from the office.
• Will be on staff at one of our Ambulatory Surgery Centers.

** Clinic hours will vary depending on assignment between 7am to 6pm, Monday through Friday in our Torrance and El Segundo locations.

** Surgical First Assist in the Operating Room +/- 1 day per week.

***This is a 5/8's work schedule Monday through Friday.

                                                  ***There are NO CALLS or WEEKENDS in this role***

Important to note: Will be in the Operating Room +/- 1 day per week. Clinic days are 3-4 days per week

Qualifications

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Experience:

Minimum one (1) year Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner experience in a relevant clinical area strongly preferred. e.g., orthopedics or sports medicine, general surgery, reconstructive surgery, or other surgical specialties.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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