Clinical Director, Physician Assistant

The Opportunity

Are you an experienced Physician Assistant who still loves patient care — and is ready for broader impact through leadership?

Pine Park Health is hiring a Clinical Director, Physician Assistant to lead and develop our Bay Area clinical team while staying connected to practice. You’ll coach a small team of NPs and PAs, drive provider performance and clinical quality, help hire and grow the team, and continue caring for older adults in senior living communities.

How This Role Works

This is a Bay Area clinical leadership role that balances people leadership and patient care. You’ll spend time on-site with your team and community partners as needed, with flexibility to plan that time around what your providers and patients need — plus mileage reimbursement and Friday WFH learning days so it stays sustainable.

You do not need a Director title today. Lead PAs, APP Leads, PA/APP Managers, Clinical Managers, Clinical Supervisors, and similar leaders are strongly encouraged to apply.

Compensation & Benefits

• Total target cash: $200,000-$240,000 (base + bonus included)
• Sign-on: Eligible for a sign-on bonus of up to $15,000 based on experience and overall offer package
• Equity and comprehensive benefits
• PTO: Up to 6+ weeks annually (vacation, sick, and paid holidays)
• Friday work-from-home
• Professional development funding
• Medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k)
• Company-issued cell phone
• Mileage reimbursement

Paid UpToDate Subscription

Final compensation reflects clinical experience and depth of clinical and people-leadership experience.

• What You’ll Do
• Lead a clinical team
• Lead, coach, and develop a small team of NPs and PAs across the Bay Area
• Spend regular time in the field alongside providers — observe care, coach in real time, and stay close to day-to-day work
• Hold 1:1s; give ongoing feedback and professional development

Coach providers toward strong clinical and operational performance, using meaningful measures such as quality, documentation, access, and care-gap closure.

Help shape provider schedules, patient panels, and coverage models to support both excellent care and a sustainable clinician experience.

• Hire, onboard, train, and develop new clinicians
• Lead quality improvement and strengthen clinical workflows
• Partner with clinical, operations, growth, and other cross-functional leaders
• Build community partnerships
• Build relationships with senior living community leaders and staff
• Serve as a clinical leadership point of contact for partners
• Support new community launches and growth of existing partnerships
• Partner with community teams to address clinical and operational challenges while keeping relationships strong
• Stay connected to patient care
• Provide primary care to older adults in senior living communities
• Deliver Welcome Visits, Care Plans, AWVs, assessments, medication management, and follow-up care
• Support post-discharge transitions from acute or SNF settings
• Respond to urgent medical and behavioral health needs
• Provide coverage when teammates are out
• Help prevent avoidable ED visits and hospitalizations

Build Your Leadership Career

This role is designed for an experienced PA who is ready for the next step in clinical leadership. You'll gain hands-on experience in provider development, hiring, performance management, quality improvement, and market-level clinical operations while remaining connected to patient care.

As Pine Park Health grows, you'll have the opportunity to expand your leadership scope and influence how we deliver care across the market.

• What We’re Looking For
• Required
• Active California Physician Assistant / PA license
• Active unrestricted DEA
• Master’s degree in Physician Assistant studies

Meaningful Independent PA Practice Experience

• Hands-on people leadership (training, coaching, performance management, and regular 1:1s) with clinical or non-clinical staff — RNs, MAs, admin, or clinicians. Lead NP / APP Manager / Clinical or practice lead preferred; Director title not required
• Strong clinical judgment; able to assess, care-plan, and manage chronic conditions independently
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills — coaching teammates, partnering with community teams, and navigating hard conversations
• Comfort working autonomously in a fast-paced, multi-site environment

Preferred

Primary care, geriatrics, internal medicine, complex/chronic care, home-based or senior care, population health, or value-based care experience preferred.

Family or Adult-Gerontology specialization