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Skilled Wound Care
Rockville, Maryland

Plastic Surgeon

Surgery 8.0 Work-LifeNo callNo weekendsNo nightsContract

Listed compensation

$200k-$300k

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Job Description

  • Job Title: Plastic Surgeon
  • Location: Rockville, MD
  • Employment Type: Full-time or Part-time
  • Salary: $200,000 – $300,000 per year for Full-time
  • Plastic Surgeon Jobs in Rockville, MD: Your Wound Expertise, a Better Way to Practice

No one understands wound healing and tissue management like a Plastic Surgeon. Yet many plastic surgeons spend their careers covering hand and facial trauma call, fighting insurers over reconstructive cases, or carrying the overhead, marketing costs and pressure of running a cosmetic practice.

Across the country, plastic surgeons are dealing with falling reimbursements, growing competition from med spas and patients with ever-higher expectations.

Skilled Wound Care, a premier national physician group, is hiring Plastic Surgeons in Rockville, MD to work as wound care physicians and lead wound care initiatives in skilled nursing facilities across the area.

Maybe you’re a reconstructive surgeon ready to step away from trauma call and insurance battles. Maybe you’re a cosmetic surgeon looking for steady, reliable income without the costs of running a practice. Or maybe you want a part-time role alongside your current practice. Either way, this no-call Plastic Surgeon job offers a high-impact career without the corporate red tape.

Why Plastic Surgeons in Rockville, MD Choose Wound Care

In a specialty where being on call can mean late-night hand injuries and facial lacerations in the ER, we offer a refreshing alternative:

The “No-Call” Lifestyle: No nights, no weekends and no pagers. No middle-of-the-night ER consults. This is a true Monday–Friday surgeon job, so your evenings and weekends belong to you and your family.

Put Your Wound Expertise to Work: Your training in tissue handling and wound healing makes you a natural fit. Surgical debridement and bedside procedures are part of your daily practice.

No Practice Overhead: No staff payroll, marketing budget, office lease or billing headaches. Just focus on patients.

Steady, Reliable Income: Per-patient and per-procedure pay that doesn’t rise and fall with the cosmetic market.

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.

  • Plastic Surgeon Responsibilities
  • Use the latest advancements in wound healing to change lives in communities across Rockville, MD:
  • Surgical and sharp debridement and other bedside procedures
  • Evaluation and treatment of chronic, non-healing and complex wounds, including pressure injuries

Advanced Dressings and Specialized Wound Protocols

  • Collaborative care in skilled nursing facilities and the post-acute setting, where you follow patients through healing
  • Plastic 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
  • Plastic 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 Plastic and Reconstructive 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 5th 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 Plastic Surgeon Job in Rockville, MD

You’ve spent your career mastering wound healing. Now practice it on your terms. If you’re a Plastic Surgeon in Rockville, MD looking for a no-call, Monday–Friday career, or a part-time role with steady income and no overhead, 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

The Plastic Surgeon will perform surgical debridement and bedside procedures to treat chronic, non-healing, and complex wounds in skilled nursing facilities. They will also lead wound care initiatives and follow patient progress through the healing process.

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 also required, and the role is open to various surgical and medical backgrounds.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Chronic wound treatmentPressure injury managementClinical documentationPatient evaluation

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Plastic Surgeon at Skilled Wound Care a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 5% in Surgery — ranked against 990 active Surgery listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

Surgery — Physician Career Context

Skilled Wound Care holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 84/100, 88 active listings.

Of the 50 active Surgery listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 88% have no call, 76% require no weekends.

Surgery pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Maryland is 105.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$250k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $238k in an average-cost state. 62.9% of Maryland clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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CME allowance
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Relocation assistance
5%
Loan repayment
3%

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.9this job 8.0
Among the best 10% of Surgery listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 990 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No call
  • No weekends
  • No nights

Living in Rockville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$624k≈ 3.1× annual pay
Typical market rent
$2,405/mo≈ 14% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
31 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
108.9
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Skilled Wound Care

Hospitals and Health Care
Los Angeles, California
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

No Call
No Nights
No Weekends
No Practice Overhead
Steady Reliable Income
Clinical Autonomy
Smarter Documentation Software
Quarterly Bonus Programs