Physician Assistant - Certified (PA-C)

Community Care Clinic for Forsyth County; Winston-Salem (NC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

9 paid holidays

Employer-sponsored medical insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Long-term disability

Term life insurance

SIMPLE IRA with employer match

Job summary

Community Care Clinic for Forsyth County in Winston-Salem, NC seeks a Physician Assistant to join our mission‑driven team delivering high‑quality primary care to uninsured and underserved patients. You will diagnose and treat acute and chronic conditions, develop evidence‑based plans, coordinate referrals, and document thoroughly while navigating financial, language, and access barriers to care.

This in‑person role offers competitive compensation, full benefits, and opportunities to support

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited physician assistant program and current NCCPA certification, or ability to obtain certification before beginning clinical duties.
• Current, unrestricted North Carolina PA license, compact privilege, or documented eligibility to obtain required authorization before beginning clinical duties.
• Current Basic Life Support certification and eligibility for credentialing, privileging, prescriptive authority, and any required supervising-physician or team-based practice arrangement.
• Strong clinical judgment, communication, documentation, organization, and follow-up skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to CCC's mission and to respectful, compassionate care for uninsured, low-income, culturally diverse, and medically underserved patients.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with employed and volunteer clinicians, staff, learners, interpreters, community partners, patients, and families.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and treat patients; diagnose and manage common acute and chronic conditions within the PA's education, experience, competencies, privileges, and authorized practice arrangement.
• Develop evidence-based treatment plans; prescribe and monitor medications; order and interpret appropriate laboratory, imaging, and diagnostic studies.
• Review and act on clinically significant results, patient messages, and urgent matters promptly, including reasonable follow-up outside scheduled clinic hours when patient safety requires it.
• Explain diagnoses, medications, testing, warning signs, and follow-up plans in language patients and families can understand.
• Coordinate referrals and care with physicians, nurses, volunteer providers, interpreters, medication-access staff, and community partners.
• Maintain complete, accurate, timely documentation and comply with HIPAA, CCC policies, quality standards, and applicable professional and regulatory requirements.
• Support approved learners, new-provider onboarding, community outreach, clinic improvement initiatives, and responsible stewardship of limited and donated resources.

Skills

Clinical judgment

Communication

Documentation

Follow-up

Team collaboration

Education

Accredited PA program

NCCPA certification

North Carolina license

Job description

Reports toMedical Director or designated supervising physician; administratively to the Clinic

Manager

StatusFull-time preferred; part-time may be considered

Compensation$41.00-$47.00 per hour ($85,280-$97,760 annualized at 40 hours), depending on experience and qualifications

LocationCommunity Care Clinic, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

The PA helps ensure that uninsured and financially vulnerable patients receive timely, dignified, and clinically appropriate care. This is an opportunity to practice medicine with meaningful community impact as part of a deeply committed clinical team.

The Opportunity

Community Care Clinic is a free and charitable clinic providing medical, dental, vision, behavioral health, medication-access, and supportive services to uninsured and underserved residents of Forsyth County. Our work is grounded in respect for the dignity of every patient and strengthened by collaboration among employed staff, volunteer clinicians, learners, interpreters, and community partners.

The Physician Assistant is a central member of CCC's mission-driven clinical team. The PA provides accessible, evidence-based primary and preventive care while helping patients navigate financial, language, transportation, medication-access, and other barriers. Because CCC operates as a free and charitable clinic, this contribution extends beyond the examination room.

Core Responsibilities

• Evaluate and treat patients; diagnose and manage common acute and chronic conditions within the PA's education, experience, competencies, privileges, and authorized practice arrangement.
• Develop evidence-based treatment plans; prescribe and monitor medications; order and interpret appropriate laboratory, imaging, and diagnostic studies.
• Review and act on clinically significant results, patient messages, and urgent matters promptly, including reasonable follow-up outside scheduled clinic hours when patient safety requires it.
• Explain diagnoses, medications, testing, warning signs, and follow-up plans in language patients and families can understand.
• Coordinate referrals and care with physicians, nurses, volunteer providers, interpreters, medication-access staff, and community partners.
• Maintain complete, accurate, timely documentation and comply with HIPAA, CCC policies, quality standards, and applicable professional and regulatory requirements.
• Support approved learners, new-provider onboarding, community outreach, clinic improvement initiatives, and responsible stewardship of limited and donated resources.

Mission and Patient Commitment

• Provide compassionate, high-quality care to uninsured and medically underserved patients.
• Treat every patient with dignity, respect, patience, and cultural humility, regardless of income, insurance status, language, background, or life circumstances.
• Create clinically appropriate care plans that recognize patients' financial, transportation, health-literacy, medication-access, and language barriers.
• Work resourcefully within a free and charitable clinic while maintaining high standards of quality, safety, ethics, and professional practice.

Required Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited physician assistant program and current NCCPA certification, or ability to obtain certification before beginning clinical duties.
• Current, unrestricted North Carolina PA license, compact privilege, or documented eligibility to obtain required authorization before beginning clinical duties.
• Current Basic Life Support certification and eligibility for credentialing, privileging, prescriptive authority, and any required supervising-physician or team-based practice arrangement.
• Strong clinical judgment, communication, documentation, organization, and follow-up skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to CCC's mission and to respectful, compassionate care for uninsured, low-income, culturally diverse, and medically underserved patients.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with employed and volunteer clinicians, staff, learners, interpreters, community partners, patients, and families.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two or more years of outpatient primary-care, family-medicine, internal-medicine, community-health, or free-clinic experience; strong new graduates may be considered when appropriate clinical support is available.
• Experience managing diabetes, hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular risk, respiratory conditions, and other common chronic diseases.
• Experience serving uninsured, low-income, immigrant, refugee, Spanish-speaking, or medically underserved patients.
• Bilingual English/Spanish ability strongly preferred.
• Experience with medication-assistance programs, learner precepting, public health, community outreach, quality improvement, or local resources for uninsured patients.

Benefits depend on employment status, eligibility, plan terms, and CCC policies. Eligible employees may receive paid time off; nine paid holidays plus a half-day on New Year's Eve; pre-tax group medical insurance with CCC paying most of the employee coverage cost; a Flexible Spending Account with a current CCC contribution of $60 per month for eligible full-time employees after the introductory period; long-term disability; term life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage; and a SIMPLE IRA with an employer match of up to 3% after eligibility requirements are met.

Schedule and Working Environment

This is primarily an in-person clinical position. The schedule will be established based on clinic needs and employment status and may include occasional evening or weekend outreach, meetings, or clinic activities. Work involves direct patient contact and normal medical-clinic exposure risks; appropriate infection-control and workplace-safety procedures are required.

This executive summary highlights the principal elements of the position. The complete CCC Physician Assistant Job Description governs the role's detailed responsibilities, qualifications, working conditions, andemployment provisions.