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Get MORE from your career with Hartford HealthCare

Hartford HealthCare, the largest and most comprehensive healthcare system in Connecticut, has a new growth opportunity for a Surgical Physician Assistant, to join our breast surgery team to provide value-based care to patients in outpatient settings in Central CT including Meriden, Cheshire and Hamden.

Some highlights of this opportunity include:

• Breast Surgery Physician Assistants provide patient centered care on a long-term basis to breast surgery patients in an ambulatory setting, and assist with follow up and post-operative appointments, initial non-cancer consults, office-based procedures, and ongoing survivorship care.
• Breast Surgery Physician Assistants will assist in the operating room on breast surgical cases including lumpectomies, mastectomies, other breast excisions and lymph node surgeries; responsibilities will also include pre-operative assessment, order placement for operative cases, post-operative charting and medication management, assistance with FMLA and other paperwork for breast patients. Experience with Epic EHR is helpful but not required.
• The opportunity to assist in building a comprehensive breast surgery program, and high-risk program
• A close-knit group with a common goal of delivering compassionate and quality care to breast surgery patients
• A supportive work environment with approachable physicians that love to help provide mentorship and training
• The opportunity to be involved in provider committees, system wide initiatives, and system wide Cancer Institute meetings
• Opportunities for professional advancement and trainings through Hartford HealthCare’s unique relationship with Memorial Sloan Kettering
• Competitive compensation, matching 401k, tiered medical, and CME reimbursement
• Access to HHC’s Provider Leadership Development Institute
• Eligibility to apply for Public Service Loan Foreignness
• M-F day time schedule with no call

Hartford HealthCare (HHC) Cancer Institute is a fully certified member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Alliance. The MSK Cancer Alliance is an initiative designed to establish partnerships between MSK and local care providers. Through the open collaboration that is facilitated by these partnerships, community cancer caregivers are in a better position to provide state of the art, evidence-based cancer care to improve the lives of cancer patients. Together, the Hartford Healthcare Cancer Institute and Memorial Sloan Kettering stay ahead of cancer.

There are no limits to what you can achieve when you join the Cancer Institute at Hartford HealthCare.  The extensive capabilities of the most integrated healthcare system in CT offers Oncology Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners MORE OPPORTUNITY as you practice with nationally respected colleagues in a progressive, physician-led environment.    Our broad network includes seven acute care hospitals including one of the largest academic and surgical hospitals in the northeast, thriving community teaching hospitals, and one of the largest multi-specialty medical groups in New England with more than 1,000 providers.

This means MORE OPTIONS to propel your career to new heights and all within a deeply embedded culture of inclusion, innovation, and focus on the highest quality of care. We are teachers, researchers, innovators, leaders and, most of all, caregivers.

Qualifications

• Eligibility to be licensed in Connecticut as a Physician Assistant (PA)
• Eligibility to be certified as a Physician Assistant (PA) is required.
• Surgery or oncology experience preferred.  
• BIPOC candidates encouraged to apply, demonstrates a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through modeling inclusive behaviors and proactively managing bias

Located between Boston and New York City, Connecticut offers you and your family access to a lifestyle that is second to none.  Enjoy the finest schools in the nation, four beautiful seasons of recreational activities, and options to live at the shore, in leafy suburbs, or in vibrant urban areas.  To put MORE GROWTH IN YOUR CAREER, apply today!