Physician Assistant- Trauma Acute Care Service Job Listing at SSM Health in Madison, WI (Job ID 3117109-2024-04-04)

Description

SSM Health Dean Medical Group is seeking a Physician Assistant to join our Trauma Acute Care Service. Position prefers post educational experience in a surgical specialty, preferably surgery/acute care and trauma settings, as well as OR first assist experience. Candidates must have both ATLS and ACLS certifications.

Opportunity Highlights:

• Full time position with competitive salary, signing bonus and benefits package
• Advanced Practitioners will work primarily with Trauma and Acute Care Surgeons and the Trauma Medical Director
• The primary focus of this position will be assisting in providing high quality care to trauma and acute care patients with a small focus on outpatient trauma follow-up clinic
• Trauma department schedule: part of a 24/7 program. No call and shifts will vary between daytime hours, PMs, nights and weekend rotations
• Hospital Privileges at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital, an ACS Level II Trauma Center

Essential responsibilities of this position include:

• Evaluate patients, including performing history and physical examinations in the trauma bay, inpatient and outpatient settings
• Responding to level I and level II trauma activations
• Performing necessary invasive procedures as directed by the trauma surgeon
• Performing secondary and tertiary trauma surveys
• Ordering and interpreting of laboratory and imaging tests
• Coordination of ancillary staff and consulting services
• Participate in the trauma quality process improvement program

Candidates must be able to function in fast paced environments and thrive within a team approach model. They would need to be able to communicate effectively and collaborate with other services to provide high quality care. Candidates must actively pursue opportunities to improve the quality of care to the Trauma Acute Care patients across the continuum of care.

The Hospital

• SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital is an ACS Level II Trauma Center
• SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital, a 440-bed tertiary care and referral center, is an award-winning facility and has been serving South Central Wisconsin since 1912.
• SSM St. Mary's Hospital is the referral hospital for the 7 hospital SSM Wisconsin Region. Our Wisconsin Region also counts 4 additional affiliate hospitals in our network.
• St. Mary's and Dean Medical Group are part of SSM Health, an integrated health system that has facilities in Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

The Community

Madison, population 252,000, consistently ranks as one of the top places in the country to live, work, go to school, play, and raise a family. Madison was recently named as one of the best places to live in America by Livability.