Orthopedic Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner

Genesis Ortho; Oak Lawn (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Healthcare

401K

Job summary

Genesis Orthopedics & Sports Medicine is seeking a full-scope orthopedic APP to practice at the top of their license across Chicagoland clinics. You will run independent clinics, manage patient plans, and deliver comprehensive MSK care.

You’ll perform procedures, assist in the operating room, and provide hospital coverage with substantial autonomy. EPIC is the EMR used across 16 clinics.

Qualifications

• Orthopedic APP experience in clinical, surgical, or both settings.
• You want to own cases and take real responsibility, not be managed into mediocrity.
• You practice like an owner: assess, decide, and act with surgeon guidance when needed.

Responsibilities

• Run independent clinics with your own patients, assessments, and plans.
• Provide comprehensive MSK care for a wide range of injuries and conditions.
• Perform procedures: injections, reductions, digital blocks, regional anesthesia, minor surgery.
• Assist in the OR as first assistant and support the supervising surgeon.
• Cover hospital rounds, orders, ED consults, and floor evaluations.
• Interpret labs and imaging (EMG, EKG, X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound).
• Apply casts, splints, and braces correctly the first time.

Skills

Orthopedic APP experience

Education

Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant certification

Tools

EPIC

Job description

Most APP roles in orthopedics look the same: follow a surgeon around, fill out notes,operateinside a box someone else drew.You'recredentialed, experienced, and capable of more — and the system keeps finding new ways to remind you thatdoesn'tmatter.

Genesis is built differently.

Wedon'thire Advanced Practice Providers toassist. We hire them topractice at the top of their license— running independent clinics, making real clinical decisions, and delivering care to a patient population that has almost no one else in their corner.If you've been waiting for a role that actually respects what you can do, this is it.

The Work

This is a full-scope orthopedic APP role. That meansyou'renot shadowing —you'redoing.

• Running independent clinics— your patients, your assessments, your treatment plans

• Comprehensive MSK careacross a wide range of injuries and conditions: fractures, dislocations, joint pathology, soft tissue repair, post-op management, and more

• Procedures— aspirations and injections, closed reductions, compartment pressure measurements, digital blocks, regional anesthesia, minor outpatient surgery (tendon repair, wound closure, I&D, percutaneous pinning, hardware removal)

• OR assist— first assist, wound closure, internal device application, and procedures delegated by the supervising surgeon

• Hospital-side coverage— rounds, orders, ED consults, and floor evaluations

• Diagnostic interpretation— labs, EMG, EKG, X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, bone scan, arthrogram

• Casting, splinting, bracing— applied correctly, the first time

The breadth here is real. So isthe autonomy.

Who We're Looking For

You have orthopedic APP experience — clinical, surgical, or both.You'renot looking for a job whereyou'remanagedintomediocrity. You want to be trusted withhard cases, complex patients, and real responsibility.

You practice like an owner.Youdon'twait to be told what to do next. You assess, you decide, you act — and you know when to loop in the surgeon.

You'remission-aligned.Our patients are on Medicaid, onMedicare, or uninsured entirely.They'renot easy cases with clean paperwork.They're people who need someone who actually shows up for them.Thathas to meansomething to you.

You'rebuilt for volume and variety.Genesis treats the full MSK spectrum across 16 Chicagoland clinics. No two days are the same.That'sa feature, not a bug.

The Stack

• Full-time and part-timeschedules available

• Locations:Chicago, Oak Brook, and St. Charles

• EMR:EPIC

• Competitive compensation

• PTO, healthcare, 401K

• Real clinical support — youwon'tbe doing this alone

About Genesis

Genesis Orthopedics & Sports Medicine is a full-spectrum MSK platform — surgery, physical therapy, and everything between — built on a single conviction: that world-class orthopedic care should be accessible to everyone, not just the patients with the right insurance card.

Weoperate16 clinics across Chicagoland, run clinical trials, and have built a care delivery model that serves Medicaid patients at scale without compromising on quality. The care we deliver is good enough for anyone.We'vemade it accessible to everyone.

Our APPsaren'tsupportstaff.They'recentral to how this works.

Ifyou'rean orthopedic APPwho'sready to practice at full capacity — in a system that was designed to let you — we want to talk.