Physician Assistant - Surgery

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Provides comprehensive outpatient care for liver and kidney transplant patients in collaboration with transplant surgeons, physicians, and the multidisciplinary team. Responsibilities include:

• Provides outpatient pre- and post-operative care for liver and kidney transplant and hepatobiliary patients.

• Outpatient ONLY

• Evaluates living kidney donors and liver transplant candidates and coordinates required testing, consultations, and education.

• Manages post-liver transplant patients, including immunosuppression, graft surveillance, medications, complications, and care coordination.

• Provides follow-up care for hepatobiliary patients and coordinates the multidisciplinary HPB tumor board.

• Provides clinical coverage for transplant surgeons while they are in surgery, including triage, result review, and escalation as needed.

• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to support continuity, quality, safety, and program development.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong verbal and written communication, organizational, problem-solving, and customer service skills

• Sound clinical judgment, decision-making, and problem-solving skills; effective teaching skills

• Ability to be accountable and committed to quality and safety

• Effective time-management skills in a high-stress environment

• Ability to maintain effective relationships while remaining flexible to work with patients, families, and all members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team

• Ability to adapt to changes as necessary

• Ability to work well without supervision

• Initiative to keep abreast of new information, products, and developments in assigned specialty; leadership qualities essential to operate effectively within the institution and advance the practice of transplantation

• Computer skills and ability to work effectively across multiple electronic medical records (EMRs)

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• A minimum of two years of experience in a large hospital or clinical setting (No New Grads)

• If Nurse Practitioner - must have successfully completed undergraduate and master’s level nursing programs, passed state boards, and achieved ARNP status.

• If Physician Assistant - must hold a baccalaureate degree, or a minimum of two years of college credits, and have graduated from a physician assistant program approved by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA), the successor program to CAAHEP.

LICENSURE, CERTIFCATION OR REGISTRATION REQUIRED:

• Current BLS and ACLS certification.

• Current, valid State of Colorado license.