Physician Assistant

• Physician Assistant
• Department: Participant Care
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Location: Jackson, MI
• Compensation: $128,000 - $135,000 / year

Description

Schedule: Exempt (salary), min 40 hours per week | Monday - Friday | 8am - 4:30pm | No holidays! No weekends!

Department: Thome PACE | Jackson, MI

What You’ll Do

As an experienced Physician Assistant with Thome PACE, you’ll be part of an interdisciplinary team caring for medically complex older adults. You’ll collaborate closely with nursing, social work, therapy, pharmacy, dietetics, home care, transportation, and scheduling to design the right care plan for each participant. The Physician Assistant supports clinically appropriate, participant centered, and resource responsible care.

If you're looking for great work-life balance, a team approach to care and strong benefits, this position is a great fit!

Key Responsibilities

• Perform health histories, physical exams, and patient education.
• Order, interpret, and follow-up on lab tests and results.
• Perform selected procedures and document care both orally and in writing.
• Assess, diagnose, treat, and coordinate participant care.
• Recognize abnormalities that require immediate referral for further intervention.
• Initiate and evaluate orders for medications, diagnostic studies, and treatments within physician-approved protocols.
• Provide emergency care as needed.

Collaborate with ER physicians and hospital staff to manage care, prevent unnecessary hospitalizations, and facilitate expeditious discharge.

Maintains clinical responsibility for an assigned participant panel, including routine and acute care, required assessments, meditation management, diagnostic testing, specialty follow up, and ongoing clinical monitoring.

Ensures orders, referrals, test results, specialty recommendations, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and significant changes in condition receive timely clinical review and appropriate follow up.

Provides or coordinates clinical management for participants receiving palliative or end of life care, in collaboration with the IDT, participant, family, and external care partners.

• Act as a liaison with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure integrated care.
• Collaborate with attending physicians to request consultations from contracted services/providers as needed.
• Coordinate care with outside providers, including nursing homes, assisted living, adult foster care, and hospitals.
• Participate in interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings, contributing to holistic patient care planning.

Actively participates as a member of the interdisciplinary team and collaborates in the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of participant plans of care.

Responds timely to IDT, nursing, scheduling, pharmacy, and other clinical communications requiring provider review or direction.

Reviews missed, cancelled, or incomplete specialty services and provides timely clinical direction regarding continued clinical need, alternative treatment, or appropriate follow up.

Collaborates with the IDT when services outside the established PACE network or service delivery system are being considered.

• Educate participants and families on preventive health maintenance, particularly for chronic conditions.
• Actively participate in family conferences to provide education and care planning.
• Actively engage in quality improvement (QI) processes to enhance care delivery.

Completes clinical documentation, orders, assessments, referrals, follow up, and other assigned provider responsibilities.

The above is a summary of the position, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties this position will be required to perform. If selected for the position you will receive a full job description.

• Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant educational program.
• Current Michigan Physician Assistant licensure required.
• Current and unrestricted license to practice as a Physician Assistant in the state of Michigan.
• Current Michigan Controlled Substance License and DEA registration.

Current national certification through the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, NCCPA, as applicable.

Minimum of five years of clinical experience as a Physician Assistant, preferably in primary care, internal medicine, geriatrics, or a related clinical setting.

Valid driver's license and reliable transportation

Benefits

• Generous 6 weeks of Flexible time off per year—plus paid holidays on top of that.
• Competitive Benefits for Full-Time Team Members – Enjoy Medical, Vision & Dental Insurance starting on the 1st of the month after 30 days of hire.
• Retirement Savings Plan – Secure your future with employer contributions.
• Daily Pay –Instantly transfer your daily earnings.
• Team Member Referral Bonus Program – Earn $500 when you bring great people to our team!
• Career Growth & Development – Advance your career with tuition assistance and school scholarships up to $3,000 per semester.
• Wellness Program & Reimbursement – Prioritize your health and well-being, reimbursed 120 a year!
• Mileage Reimbursement – Offered for work-related travel.

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