Nurse Practitioner - Physician Assistant / Surgical
Compensation
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Job Description
Company Description
Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world.
We offer a full continuum of services from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail.
With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations.
Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus.
Job Description
- Key Responsibilities
- Serve as bedside assistant for all da Vinci robotic-assisted surgical cases in the operating room
- Provide comprehensive inpatient surgical support across both Southfield and Novi campuses
- Maintain 100% operating room presence during scheduled surgical cases (5 days per week)
- Assist with adult robotic surgery cases, ensuring optimal surgical team coordination and patient safety
- Support the robotic surgery program as a valued member of the Advanced Practice Provider (APP) surgical team
- Maintain current ACLS/BLS and ATLS/PALS certifications as required
- Adhere to all state licensure, DEA, and CSL requirements
- Schedule & Work Environment
- Full-time position with consistent Monday-Friday schedule
- Day shift: 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM
- No weekend or on-call requirements
- 100% inpatient surgical setting
Required Qualifications
- Current Michigan state licensure as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA)
- Minimum 2 years of hands-on bedside assistance experience in robotic-assisted surgery
- Current ACLS/BLS certification
- Valid DEA registration
- Current CSL (Controlled Substance License) in Michigan
Preferred Qualifications
- Additional experience in a surgical setting beyond robotic surgery
- Demonstrated expertise with da Vinci robotic surgical systems
- Experience supporting multi-specialty surgical teams in a hospital environment
- Additional Information
Job Type: Full Time
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Nurse Practitioner - Physician Assistant / Surgical at Henry Ford Health a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 5% in Surgery (PA) — ranked against 362 active Surgery (PA) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.
Surgery — Physician Assistant Career Context
Of the 50 active Physician Assistant listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 66% have no call, 64% require no weekends.
Physician Assistant pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Work-life score | 8.0 / 10 · top 5% in surgery (pa) | ranked against 362 Surgery (PA) listingslisting-based score, 0–10 |
| Listed pay | not listed | Physician Assistant median $126k (middle half $110k–$155k)42 comparable listings, Nov 2026 |
| Cost of living | Michigan index 96.2 | US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Physician Assistant listings in Michigan | 125 active | 4,552 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 8% remote · 66% no call · 64% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | not stated | Michigan Physician Assistant listings: 18% state a sign-on bonus · 2% offer loan repayment125 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| Surgery hiring demand | #6 of 6 specialties | postings stay open a median 41 days · 6% state a sign-on bonusWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, October 2026 · 107 postings, 230 closed |
| New Surgery listings | 760 in the last 30 days | 469 the 30 days before (+62%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Physician Assistant pay trend | +2.5% vs prior quarter | —through Oct 2026 |
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Listing-based score, 0–10, across 362 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.
- No weekends
- No nights
- Includes call
Living in Novi
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $411k
- Typical market rent
- $1,832/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 26 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 100.3
- State income tax
- Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.