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Physician Assistant Ambulatory Surgical position located in Oregon
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Are you passionate about working in an Orthopedic setting? Interested in Sports medicine? Our firm is in search of a Physician Assistant for an Ambulatory Surgical Center in Oregon located about 2 hours from Portland and an hour south of Salem. This location puts you an hour from the coast and an hour from the mountains! Excellent environment offering a unique work/ life experience. We are looking for an experienced Physician Assistant passionate about working in a surgical setting. You would need to be comfortable knowing the position starts off working only in surgery. Our ideal candidate should have personality! You will be working alongside 19 different surgeons and a group of Certified Surgical First Assists and Physician Assistants.

Reason open: They have a great need to add another PA to their team. They have little to no turnover and they want someone who is seeking to stay a long time.

Salary: Based on years of experience. Starts at $85,000 and goes up into the low $100K range. The client does offer opportunities for you to earn extra income on top of your salary should you choose to work additional hours.

Why is this a great place to work?
Ortho specialty, privately held, excellent surgeons, outstanding QA program, have highly trained long term staff that knows how to work collaboratively as a team and a beautiful facility. Management has the support of medical advisory and governing body. A very stable company with a great reputation in the area. This facility does around 4500 surgeries per year, averaging about 18 per day.

Requirements:
We can only consider EXPERIENCED Physician Assistants. Following are the preferences our client has shared with us. Salary truly depends on the years of experience you have:
1. An experienced (at least one year post-graduation) orthopedic PA with total joint replacement experience.
2. An experienced (at least one year post-graduation) orthopedic PA with surgical assisting experience.

Work setting/ what to expect:
The hours vary. Early mornings could be expected because this position does rounds at the hospitals. Some days end earlier than others, as the schedule depends on which cases you would be assisting with. If hired, you would not start off in the clinic setting, but rather surgery. You would start off in surgery where you would get to know the physicians and become familiar with the surgeries they do. After that anywhere from 6 months to a year typically, the client will find a place for you in clinic. The number of patients varies based on which physician(s) you would be working with and the day.

Benefits:
Our client offers medical, dental, life, 401(k) (Match up to 3% of salary and 7% profit sharing) $2500 annually to spend on meetings/travel, paid CME time (no set amount), paid time off at the rate of .06 for every hour worked, and 7 paid holidays per year in addition to the accrued time off. Relocation assistance is offered

Interested & qualified candidates must forward a current CV (Microsoft Word format is highly preferred) to xxxxxxxxxxx* or fax to xxxxxxxxxxx*.