Physician Assistant

**JOB TITLE: Permanent Full-Time Physician Assistant**
**CLINICAL AREA: Internal Medicine/ Acute Care Areas**

**DESCRIPTION OF TOWN/CITY**:
**DESCRIPTION OF EMPLOYER**:
The North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) is a unique health care organization with three primary roles. It provides acute care services to North Bay and its surrounding communities, is a district referral centre providing specialist services for smaller communities in the area; and is specialized mental health service provider for the Northeast Region of Ontario which spans from Muskoka area to the Hudson Bay, and from the Quebec border to Sault Ste Marie. NBRHC has 409 beds and numerous outpatient and outreach services and is one of four major acute care hospitals in the Region. The others being Health Sciences North in Sudbury, Sault Area Hospital in Sault Ste Marie; and Timmins District Hospital in Timmins. The immediate area surrounding North Bay is also served by small community hospitals like Mattawa and West Nipissing General Hospitals.
A major teaching centre for students in medicine, psychiatry, nursing and allied health professions, NBRHC is proud to not only be affiliated with NOSM, but also Nipissing University, Canadore College and other Ontario colleges and universities. NBRHC chairs the development of an affiliation with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine to better address the unique needs of the north, overcome barriers that impact health care and ensure the transfer of knowledge into innovative evidence based care solutions.

**POSITION PURPOSE**:
Energetic and motivated individual is needed to work as a Physician Assistant with a dynamic and collegial team of Internal Medicine Physicians in accordance with the college of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario’s policy on delegation and under Medical Directives. The Physician Assistant will collaborate with various disciplines providing assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and transitional support for patients with a broad range of complex medical co-morbidities. The Physician Assistant will demonstrate a strong theoretical knowledge base and clinical competence. This will involve collecting and interpreting current, historical and diagnostic information about the patient for the purpose of establishing a diagnostic formulation including the identification of risk factors. Energetic and motivated individual is needed to work as a Physician Assistant with a dynamic and collegial team of Internal Medicine Physicians in accordance with the college of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario’s policy on delegation and under Medical Directives. The Physician Assistant will collaborate with various disciplines providing assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and transitional support for patients with a broad range of complex medical co-morbidities. The Physician Assistant will demonstrate a strong theoretical knowledge base and clinical competence. This will involve collecting and interpreting current, historical and diagnostic information about the patient for the purpose of establishing a diagnostic formulation including the identification of risk factors.

**SUPPORTING DUTIES**:
The physician Assistant will be involved in collecting and interpreting current, historical and diagnostic information about the patient for the purpose of establishing a diagnosis and treatment plan. The Physician Assistant will have the opportunity to work with a diverse patient population.

Principal responsibilities include of the Physician Assistant will include but not limited to:

- Participate in patient treatment and goal setting
- Conduct patient interviews and take medical histories
- Perform physical examinations and interpret findings
- Organize laboratory and diagnostic investigations
- Participate in the screening/assessment/management of dynamic risk factors
- Perform certain controlled acts under medical directives delegated by the internal medicine group
- Counsel patients on preventive healthcare and chronic disease management
- Organize follow-up appointment with patients from hospital to community partners
- Collaborate with both inpatient and outpatient multidisciplinary teams

**QUALIFICATIONS**:
**Education**:

- Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant Degree/Program

**Certificates/Experience/Knowledge**:

- Member in good standing with the Canadian Association of Physicians Assistants
- Member in good standing with the Canadian Council of Canada is an asset
- Certification through McMaster or Consortium Physician assistant program is preferred.
- Current BCLS/ACLS Certification (recent as of one year) required
- Clinical Placements in in-patient medicine is an asset
- Experience with Meditech Expanse is an asset
- Must have or be able to obtain certification of added skills and delegated medical acts specific to the departments by the end of the orientation period
- Excellent verbal and written communication required

**Skills/Abilities**:

- Ability to function both