Physicians Assistant - Shriners Children's

Shriners Children’s is a family that respects, supports, and values each other. We are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience defines us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

Shriners Children's is the premier pediatric burn, orthopaedic, spinal cord injury, cleft lip and palate, and pediatric subspecialties medical center.  We currently have an opening for a PT (.7 FTE) Physicians Assistant to join our team.  The schedule would be Monday - Thursday ( 7 hours per day).  No weekends/holidays.

The Physician Assistant provides comprehensive, evidenced based health care services to the pediatric population.  The PA obtains comprehensive health history, performs physical examinations, formulates a plan of care and treatment, prescribes/performs diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and procedures and participates in patient and family education.  

Provide Patient Care
• Evaluates follows up patients in clinic, demonstrates appropriate assessment skills and dictates note in
appropriate format (SOAP, for example). Presents pertinent findings and plans to the supervision physician
for review, when indicated.
• Gathers information from the history and physical exam of new (screening) patients, pre-op patients or
patients being admitted to the hospital, formulates assessments, proposes plan of management, dictates
H&P within 24 hours and signs them in a timely manner.
• Makes pre visit phone calls to selected patient applicants with complex young spine problems to answer
parent questions about our specialty services. Obtains pertinent history, reviews pre-visit studies,
summarizes and reviews with attending to facilitate appropriate initial clinic evaluation.
• Evaluates and dictates progress notes on requested studies of long distance post op patients, and reviews
with supervision physician as indicated.
• For discharged post op patients, promptly enters clinically sensitive information such as new
prescriptions/refills for pain medication or acute clinical changes in the electronic medical records (SHCIS) to
decrease risk for duplication or medical error.

Communication/Interpersonal Skills
• Provides additional education and reassurance to parents of children with complex problems during clinic
visits, as needed.
• Seeks ongoing feedback from supervising physicians to continually improve clinical skills.
• Collaborates with the other health team members demonstrating the commitment to the philosophy of
family centered care and care coordination principles. Discusses and plans patient care with clinical care
coordinators/nurses.
• Serves as a medical resource to coworkers seeking answers to clinical questions about which the physician
assistant may have some prior experience or fund of knowledge.
• Monitors parent/patient scoliosis.

Job Related Personal Responsibility
• Advances knowledge and skills in pediatric orthopedics, child development and related health fields by
participating in continuing education, literature reviews, teaching conferences and in-service programs.
• Achieves goals set forth in performance plan.

Education

Master's Physician Assistant Preferred

Experience

3 Years Physicians Assistant Preferred

Licensure and Certification

Licensed in state of practice Required AND
Basic Life Support (BLS) Required AND
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Required

Shriners Children’s is an EOE/Drug-Free, Smoke-Free Workplace. 

Shriners Children’s values diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.  This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

In accordance with local and system policies, all SHC employees must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 to be eligible for hire.