Surgical Breast Reconstruction APP Needed in CA

Job description

Start: March/April

Location: San Francisco, California

26-week assignment

4x10/weekly, Tues-Fri

Rate is All Inclusive

Work Details:
• Support staff: MAs, RNs, APPs, surgeons
• Amount of coverage needed per month: full time, 4 days/week, every week
• Patients per day: depends, can be anywhere from 2-4 pts/day in OR. Inpatient service can have 2-8 pts.
• Patient population/age: all adult, may have a few adolescents
• Department description: Mostly all reconstructive breast plastic surgery practice, mostly masectomies with reconstructive surgery after. There may be a subset of non breast cases like plastic closures, etc but most all are reconstructions.
• Provider work expectations: 50-75% OR time working on breast reconstruction. 25-50% of the time will be spent on the floor, managing patients in a med surg/tele type of unit.
• EMR: Epic
• Special procedures: no procedures needed on the floor
• Skills required:
o MUST have strong OR skills
o MUST have strong patient management/floor skills
o MUST be able to do basic OR skills like suturing
o MUST be flexible with being on the floor and OR

Majority is breast tissue expansions after mastectomy for those having reconstruction. Min # of years' experience: 1-5yrs of recent and relevant surgical oncology and/or plastic surgery experience as an APP. Must have surgery experience or outpatient clinic experience. Comfortable with performing procedures (biopsy, tissue expansion, wound care). Experience in a high patient volume oncology practice/environment heavily preferred. Breast experience highly preferred.

Practice Setting:
• Hospital

Requirements:
• Board Certification: PAs must have a masters degree in PA studies
• License required: yes CA required
• DEA: yes, CA DEA with schedule 2 required
• Minimum experience required: strongly prefer surgical breast reconstruction exp, but wil consider other oncology surgical experience

• 6 months ongoing
• No Call
• Travel and malpractice covered