Description

Specialization:
Orthopaedic Total Joints
Orthopaedic Surgery

Job Summary:

• Certified Physician Assistant (PA-C)
• Orthopedic surgery experience and first assist experience strongly preferred
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and clinical decision-making skills
• Comfortable in a fast-paced academic-style orthopedic environment

• Evaluate and manage orthopedic trauma, fractures, and post-traumatic complications
• Coordinate imaging, biopsy work-up, oncology referrals, and perioperative planning
• Conduct pre-operative evaluations and post-operative follow-up
• Provide patient education and continuity of care throughout treatment

• First assist in orthopedic trauma procedures
• Assist in complex fracture reconstruction and limb salvage procedures
• First assist in musculoskeletal oncology and sarcoma resections
• Support operative workflow and multidisciplinary surgical planning

• Participates in a shared after-hours orthopedic coverage model as part of a collaborative team

• Rotating evening and weekend after-hours coverage shared across the PA team
• High-volume exposure to trauma, reconstruction, and orthopedic oncology

• Paid malpractice
• Coverage for medical, behavioral health, prescription drugs, dental and vision
• Wellbeing resources, including free counseling
• Life insurance
• 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions
• Time off, including disability coverage
• Supplemental health protection plans
• Flexible spending accounts
• Financial wellbeing resources
• Family-focused and voluntary benefits

• Provides Plano and Collin County with advanced health care
• Full-service, 603-bed acute care hospital with more than 2,000 employees and over 1,400 physicians on staff
• Representing over 70 specialties and subspecialties
• First and only Level I Trauma Center in Collin County