Hematology Oncology Physician Assistant

About the Practice

Centra Medical Group has an opportunity for a Physician Assistant to join our Hematology Oncology group. Qualified candidates must possess a master's degree, current licensure, and a strong desire to make a difference in our patient’s lives by providing excellent compassionate care. Oncology experience is required.

Centra Hematology Oncology is an Outpatient Department of Centra Lynchburg General Hospital.

This new and exciting position offers the opportunity to work with a talented team of oncologists and nurse practitioners, as well as a full staff of infusion oncology nurses, medical assistants and certified technologists with a full on-site lab. The position is full-time, Monday-Friday and primarily office-based. Future opportunity to assist oncologists in hospital rounding.

Centra Medical Group (CMG) is a comprehensive network of nearly 600 employed providers within Centra Health. Centra Health services a population of 600,000 community members with 70 different outpatient and specialty practices.

Centra offers primary care and specialty services across Central and Southern Virginia—from Lynchburg to Danville, Farmville, Moneta, and Bedford. CMG includes family practices, specialists, and surgeons in fields such as cardiology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, urology, and more.

CMG is also home to the Lynchburg Family Medicine Residency, a training program for future family physicians, many of whom hold academic appointments with institutions like UVA, VCU, VCOM, and Liberty University.

Grow with a Health System that Invests in You

At Centra Medical Group, we’re building a culture where Advanced Practice Providers thrive. Through our partnership with ThriveAP—the nation’s leading transition-to-practice program—new graduate NPs and PAs receive a year of structured clinical education, mentorship, and peer learning to accelerate confidence and readiness.

Join Centra Medical Group and grow with an organization that invests in your professional and long-term success. ThriveAP provides NPs and PAs with a structured transition-to-practice experience focused on clinical readiness, continuity of care, and long-term patient relationship building across diverse populations.

What We Offer

• Competitive, transparent compensation represents a mix of base, hourly excess, and incentive pay.
• Student loan reimbursement
• Relocation
• CME allowance
• Centra is a not-for-profit health system; many of our providers are participating in the federal PSLF program.
• Short term disability automatically enrolled.
• 403(b) and 457(b) tax deferred savings plan; Immediate vested employer contribution match
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, and more.

Lynchburg, Virginia with a population of 85,000, is a great safe place to raise a family. Tons of outdoor activities to enjoy including hiking, biking, mountain bike trails, camping, boating, fishing & canoeing.

Hike the beautiful Sharp Top Mountain or Appalachian Trail or Bike on the Blackwater Creek Trail or Percival’s Island in the heart of the city. The Lynchburg Academy Center of the Arts offers some of America’s finest performing artists. Enjoy an evening minor league baseball game with our Lynchburg City Howlers.

Children will enjoy outdoor summer movies at the park, county fairs, apple orchards, pumpkin patches and picking blueberries & strawberries. They will love Amazement Square, an interactive hands-on children’s museum in downtown Lynchburg. Beautiful Smith Mountain Lake is also nearby.

Throughout our region, you'll find an extraordinary quality of life in friendly communities with remarkably diverse and affordable housing options. Whether you prefer urban lofts, historic mansions, suburban estates, waterfront condos, or traditional, tree-lined residential neighborhoods, it's all waiting for you here. Taxes and utility rates are very moderate, contributing to a low overall cost of living.

Responsibilities

• Performing follow up visits and surveillance for those who have completed cancer treatment or are currently being managed for a hematologic condition.
• Initiating appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic medical interventions for those currently receiving chemotherapies or other therapies. Recognizing normal and abnormal laboratory, diagnostic findings and pathology involved.
• Completing episodic/acute visits as well as side effect management.

Recognize emergent problems.

• Some management of chronic health conditions.
• Performing new hematology consults in coordination with the collaborative physician.
• Assistance in developing the new oncology care model to improve patient care and outcomes.

Qualifications

Required Education

Masters Degree from an accredited Physician Assistant School

Required Certifications and Licensures: Current licensure by the State of Virginia as a Physician Assistant ACLS