WhiteCoat Locums is seeking a Physician Assistant Critical Care/Intensive Care for a locum tenens job in Boston, Massachusetts.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Critical Care/Intensive Care
- Discipline: Physician Assistant
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: 26 weeks
- Shift: rotating
- Employment Type: Locum Tenens
Critical Care Physician Assistant
Assignment Details
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts
- Provider Type: Physician Assistant (PA)
- Specialty: Critical Care
- Practice Setting: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) / Teaching Hospital
- Start Date: January 4, 2027
- Assignment Duration: 26 Weeks
- Coverage Need: 1 Position
- EMR: Epic
Compensation
Schedule
- Weekend Coverage Required
- Day Shifts: 6:00 AM-7:00 PM
- Night Shifts: 6:00 PM-7:00 AM
- Shift Duration: 13 Hours
- Preferred Availability: 4 Weekend Shifts Per Month
- Minimum Availability: 2 Weekend Shifts Per Month
- Friday Nights, Saturdays, and Sundays Qualify as Weekend Shifts
- No Requirement to Work 3 Consecutive Shifts Every Week
- No Call Required
- Local Candidates Preferred
Patient Population / Volume
- Adult Patients
- Average Daily Census: 7 Patients
- ICU Capacity: 10 Beds
- Approximately 1-2 Burn Patients
- General ICU and Medical-Surgical Patients
Clinical Responsibilities
- Provide Critical Care Support in the ICU
- Serve as a Responding Clinician
- Participate in Morning Rounds With the Attending Physician
- Complete Assigned Patient Care Tasks
- Participate in Afternoon Rounds
- Evaluate and Monitor ICU Patients
- Assist With General ICU and Medical-Surgical Patient Management
- Coordinate Patient Care With the Attending Physician and Clinical Team
- Respond to Patient Care Needs During Assigned Shifts
Clinical Environment / Support
- Teaching Hospital
- Intensive Care Unit
- Attending Physician Support
- Epic EMR
- No Procedural Responsibilities
- No APP Billing Responsibilities
Procedures / Exclusions
- No Intubations
- No Line Placement
- No Ventilator Management
- No Transplant Cases
- No Echocardiography
- No Neurosurgical Cases
- No External Ventricular Drains (EVD)
- No Complex Neurological or Stroke Cases
- No Invasive Procedures Required
Requirements
- Board Certification in Acute Care - Required
- At Least 2 Years of Clinical Experience in Critical Care - Required
- ICU Experience - Required
- Massachusetts Physician Assistant License - Required for Practice
- Candidates Requiring Massachusetts PA Licensure May Be Considered
- ACLS - Required
- BLS - Required
- DEA - Required
- Must Be Comfortable Working Day or Night Weekend Shifts
- Must Be Available for at Least 2 Weekend Shifts Per Month
- Must Be Comfortable Working as a Responding Clinician
- Local Candidates - Preferred
Credentialing
- Estimated Credentialing Timeframe: Approximately 90 Days
- Massachusetts PA Licensure Candidates May Be Considered
- Estimated PA Licensing Timeframe: 3-5 Weeks
- PA License Application Must Be Submitted Before the Appointment Process Can Begin
WhiteCoat Locums Job ID #V3500064.
About WhiteCoat Locums
WhiteCoat Locums is founded and managed by physicians, who, like yourself, worked locums and dealt with many frustrations along the way ranging from lack of transparency and agencies’ misunderstanding of what hospitals and providers look for to poor communication and low pay rates.
That’s why we embarked on a journey to connect providers with the best locums jobs in the country while being 100% transparent, providing competitive pay rate and helping physicians succeed along the way!
Benefits
- Referral bonus
- Holiday Pay
- License and certification reimbursement
- Mileage reimbursement
- Weekly pay