Emergency Medicine/Urgent Care - PA

Emergency Medicine/Urgent Care

Phoenix Children’s opened as a free-standing hospital in 2002 and in the past 20 years has undergone tremendous growth. The ED at the main campus sees over 90,000 children a year and is the only free-standing level one pediatric trauma center in the state. Phoenix is located in Maricopa County and is one of the fastest growing counties in the United States. With this growth we have continued to expand our division, our facilities and our training programs which includes fellowships in both Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Urgent Care.

We are looking to expand our coverage at both the Emergency departments and the UC centers and are looking for pediatricians, and APP’s looking to do solely Urgent Care or a hybrid of Urgent Care and lower acuity ED shifts. We currently have 4 Urgent Care centers staffed 5p-midnight Monday through Friday and 10a to 8pm on weekends. Providers are responsible for evaluating and providing evidence-based treatment to pediatric patients within their scope of practice under the Medical Director’s supervision. This position maintains effective working relationships and rapport with patients/families, other physicians, employees, and volunteers. The Urgent Care sites have the ability to perform plain radiographs, and labs include urinalysis, blood sugars, rapid strep tests, and rapid flu in the winter months. We can send COVID but not rapid tests, at this point. In this role you will assess and treat acute injury and illness; perform procedural care including but not limited to abscess drainage, foreign body removal, and laceration repair with sutures, staples, and dermal adhesive and focus on efficiency metrics to improve urgent care flow, patient experience, and throughput

Qualifications include:

• Pediatric experience

• BC/BE in Pediatrics or Family Medicine

• Current State of Arizona certification as a Physician Assistant or obtained by start date

• Arizona state license

• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) required

• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and nonverbally