Acute Care Surgeon
Listed compensation
$200k-$300k
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
- Job Title: Acute Care Surgeon
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Employment Type: Full-time or Part-time
- Salary: $200,000 – $300,000 per year for Full-time
- Acute Care Surgeon Jobs in San Jose, CA: Same Surgical Skills, a Better Way to Practice
You trained for years to become an Acute Care Surgeon. But across the country, trauma and emergency surgery coverage gaps mean longer hours, heavier call and less time for life outside medicine. Top-tier Acute Care Surgeons shouldn’t have to give up their health, families and weekends for their careers.
Skilled Wound Care, a premier national physician group, is hiring Acute Care Surgeons in San Jose, CA to work as wound care physicians and lead wound care initiatives in skilled nursing facilities across the area.
Maybe you’re an Acute Care Surgeon ready to step away from 24-hour trauma shifts, relentless emergency general surgery call and productivity targets at large health systems. Maybe you want clinical autonomy outside the high-pressure hospital environment. Either way, this no-call Acute Care Surgeon job offers a high-impact surgical career without the corporate red tape.
Why Acute Care Surgeons in San Jose, CA Choose Wound Care
In a specialty where being on call can mean missed dinners, cancelled vacations and 2 a. m. trauma activations, we offer a refreshing alternative:
The “No-Call” Lifestyle: No nights, no weekends and no pagers. No trauma alerts, no 2 a. m. emergency cases. This is a true Monday–Friday surgeon job, so your evenings and weekends belong to you and your family.
Keep Your Surgical Skills: Surgical debridement and bedside procedures stay part of your daily practice, so you can put your procedural expertise to work every day.
A Sustainable Surgical Career: Bedside procedures are far less physically demanding than long operative cases and overnight shifts, so the strain on your body (and your sleep schedule) goes down and you can keep practicing for years to come.
Clinical Autonomy: Direct patient outcomes based on your surgical expertise, not a hospital committee or department hierarchy.
Smarter Documentation: Our custom software is designed to slash admin time, so you’re not stuck charting at midnight when you could be home at a reasonable hour.
- Acute Care Surgeon Responsibilities
- Use the latest advancements in wound healing to change lives in communities across San Jose, CA:
- Surgical and sharp debridement and other bedside procedures
- Evaluation and treatment of chronic, non-healing and complex wounds
Advanced Dressings and Specialized Wound Protocols
- Collaborative care in skilled nursing facilities and the post-acute setting, where you follow patients through healing
- Acute Care Surgeon Salary & Compensation
- Average Annual Earnings: $200,000–$250,000 (no earning cap as an independent contractor)
- High Achievers: Top performers earn $300,000+ through performance bonuses
- Pay Structure: Per-patient and per-procedure pay, plus quarterly bonus programs
- Acute Care Surgeon Requirements
- Medical Degree: MD or DO from an accredited institution
- Medical License: Unrestricted/clear medical license in the state of practice (or eligibility to obtain one)
- DEA License: Or eligibility to obtain one
- Open Background: We welcome Acute Care Surgeons and surgeons of all backgrounds, as well as Family Medicine and Internal Medicine physicians. No previous wound care experience is required; we provide comprehensive wound care training
- Great Place to Work® Certified!
Skilled Wound Care is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for the 4th year in a row. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Skilled Wound Care. This year, 95% of employees said it’s a great place to work – 39% higher than the average U.S. company.
Apply for This Acute Care Surgeon Job in San Jose, CA
You trained to be a surgeon, not to be on call forever. If you’re an Acute Care Surgeon in San Jose, CA looking for a no-call, Monday–Friday surgical career with no earning cap, apply today.
Skilled Wound Care will ask all candidates to perform pre-employment confidential DiSC testing and appropriate relevant skills testing prior to hiring.
Skilled Wound Care, part of Skilled Physicians Group, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
Key Responsibilities
Perform surgical and sharp debridement along with other bedside procedures to treat complex, chronic wounds in skilled nursing facilities. Lead wound care initiatives and follow patient outcomes through the healing process in a collaborative setting.
Requirements
Candidates must hold an MD or DO degree from an accredited institution and possess an unrestricted medical license in the state of practice. Eligibility for a DEA license is required, and the role is open to surgeons of all backgrounds as well as Family and Internal Medicine physicians.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Acute Care Surgeon at Skilled Wound Care a 7.3 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 10% in Surgery — ranked against 970 active Surgery listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements.
Surgery — Physician Career Context
Skilled Wound Care holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 84/100, 64 active listings.
Of the 50 active Surgery listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 92% have no call, 76% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$250k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $226k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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