Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner, Orthopaedics- Full time

Beth Israel Lahey Health; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 88,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

Beth Israel Lahey Health in Boston is seeking an Orthopaedic NP/PA to join a large APP team. The role includes assisting in the operating room and independently managing an outpatient clinic schedule, with post-operative visits and injections under direct physician support.

You will work with a surgeon across general orthopaedics, sports procedures, and joint replacement, in a clinic setting with no nights, weekends, or on-call requirements, supporting diverse patient care.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Physician Assistant is required.
• License Physician Assistant License and MA DPH Drug Control registration and Basic Life Support (BLS) are required.
• 0–1 years of related work experience required.
• Prescriptive authority (MA DPH-DCP and Federal DEA) and experience with computer systems (MS Office or similar) required.

Responsibilities

• Performs history and physical examinations and develops care plans.
• Educates staff and serves as a clinical resource; coordinates patient care.
• Liaises between nurses, clinical staff and consult services to ensure seamless care.
• Consults with physicians or surgeons for complex diagnoses.
• Documents encounters clearly and collaborates with other health professionals.
• Demonstrates interdisciplinary collaboration and patient-centered care.

Education

Master's degree in Physician Assistant

Job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

Schedule

This is a full-time, 40-hour position. You'll work four 10-hour shifts each week, with a combination of operating room time and independent clinic sessions. Typically, you'll spend 1-2 days assisting in surgery and the remainder of the week managing your own clinic schedule. There are no nights, weekends, or call responsibilities.

Where You'll Work

The primary clinic location will be in Chestnut Hill, where you'll see patients in an outpatient setting. Surgical cases are performed primarily at New England Baptist Hospital in Mission Hill, with future opportunities to support procedures at the expanding surgical center at One Brookline Place. You'll be part of a large, collaborative Orthopaedics APP team of approximately 20 Advanced Practice Providers spanning a wide range of subspecialties.

What You'll Do

As an Orthopaedic NP/PA, you'll partner closely with a surgeon whose practice includes general Orthopaedics, sports-related procedures, shoulder replacement surgery, and total knee replacements. You'll assist in the operating room and independently manage your own outpatient clinic schedule, seeing the surgeon's patients for post-operative visits, follow-up care, evaluations, and injections. While you'll often practice alongside the attending physician in the same clinic space, you'll maintain your own patient panel and schedule, providing a high level of autonomous care with direct physician support readily available when needed.

Why You'll Love Working Here

This role offers the best of both worlds: meaningful surgical experience and the opportunity to build strong patient relationships through independent clinical practice. You'll join a highly respected and collegial Orthopaedics team that values APP autonomy, collaboration, and professional growth. With a diverse patient population, exposure to a broad range of Orthopaedic conditions and procedures, an experienced physician partner, and a schedule free from call, nights, and weekends, you'll have the opportunity to practice at the top of your license while maintaining excellent work-life balance.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Performs history and physical examinations, formulation of care plans, ordering and interpreting laboratory and diagnostic tests and provides education to patients and their families.
• Acts as an educator and serves as a clinical resource for staff through consultation formal and informal education, review of literature and participation in seminars and conferences. Coordinates the care of patients in order to provide safe, effective, efficient and timely patient centered care.
• Liaises between visiting nurses, clinical staff and consult services. Care plans and execution of those plans should encompass the entire service to tie the service together.
• Consults with physicians or surgeons regarding the care of patients for more complex diagnosis.
• Document clinical encounters clearly, precisely and in a timely manner. Works in a collaborative relationship with other health professional to determine health needs of patients and families.
• Demonstrates and role models an interdisciplinary collaborate approach to patient care.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in Physician Assistant required.
• License Physician Assistant License required., and Registration DPH Drug Control required., and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required.
• 0-1 years related work experience required.
• ARC-PA, NCCPA American Heart Association - Basic Life Support Certificate Valid prescriptive authority from both the MA DPH-DCP and Federal DEA Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three to five years experience in a clinical environment.

Competencies

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.
• Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
• Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
• Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
• Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations. Team Work: Ability to lead collaborative teams for larger projects or groups both internal and external to the Medical Center and across functional areas. Results have implications for the management and operations of multiple areas of the organization.
• Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.
• Age based Competencies:
• Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Neonatal: Birth to 6 months, Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 - 60 years, Elderly: 60 -.

Physical Nature Of The Job

• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Job is physical in nature and employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of their shift.

Pay Range

$64.00 - $230,000.00

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

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