Physician Assistant – All Specialties | Impactful Care

Essen Health Care; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Essen Health Care in New York is seeking a Physician Assistant to support physicians and actively facilitate patient recovery. You will apply medical techniques and collaborate with a diverse care team to deliver high-quality care.

Responsibilities include examining patients, ordering tests, diagnosing conditions, and prescribing treatment with physician approval. The role offers a path for growth within a major multispecialty network that serves underserved communities.

Qualifications

• Master's degree is required for the role.
• Active New York license as a Physician Assistant.
• New York CSRD registration preferred.
• NCCPA certification is required.
• Graduate PA program completion and possible post-graduate surgical training.
• Experience as PA or nurse and EMR systems familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Provide healthcare services under supervision of a physician.
• Examine patients and record their medical histories.
• Conduct physicals and treat minor injuries (sutures, splints, etc).
• Order diagnostic tests, interpret results and diagnose medical conditions.
• Prescribe therapy or medication with physician approval.
• Monitor responses to treatments and counsel patients.
• Assess patients' health and their demands and aim to fulfill them as well as possible.
• Issue appropriate prescriptions and administer medicine.
• Inform physicians about any problems or discrepancies that might arise.
• Acquire and review patient histories identifying abnormal conditions.
• Monitor patients' progress and keep records of treatments, surgeries or other medical events.
• Prepare patients for examinations and conduct routine procedures (measure blood pressure and temperature, administer injections etc).
• Provide therapeutic treatments (disinfecting wounds, stitching etc.).
• Collaborate effectively with team members of various specializations.
• Attend to emergencies.

Skills

Master's degree

Active NY license (PA)

NCCPA certification

EMR knowledge

Bilingual Spanish

Experience as PA or nurse

DOT/BLS/ACLS preferred

Post-graduate surgical training

Education

Master's degree

Graduate of approved PA program

Post-graduate surgical training or 1 year experience

Job description

Essen Health Care in New York is seeking a Physician Assistant to support physicians and actively facilitate patient recovery. You will apply medical techniques and collaborate with a diverse care team to deliver high-quality care.

Responsibilities include examining patients, ordering tests, diagnosing conditions, and prescribing treatment with physician approval. The role offers a path for growth within a major multispecialty network that serves underserved communities.