Physician Assistant - Cardiology - Kelsey Seybold Clinic at Main Campus

Explore opportunities with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, part of the Optum family of businesses. Work with one of the nation's leading health care organizations and build your career at one of our 45 locations throughout Houston. Be part of a team that is nationally recognized for delivering coordinated and accountable care. As a multi-specialty clinic, we offer care from more than 1000 medical providers in 65+ medical specialties. Take on a rewarding opportunity to help drive higher quality, higher patient satisfaction and lower total costs. Join us and discover the meaning behind Caring. Connecting. Growing together.  

Position Highlights and Responsibilities:

• Primary Focus is centered on responsibilities within the hospital & outpatient clinic setting.  In addition, other duties assigned may and can include:  clinic office evaluations, virtual visit assessments and office call reports.
• Qualified candidates must be available Monday - Friday between the hours of 8a-5p; call may be required in special circumstances
• Uses critical thinking to manage care of cardiac patients as directed by the physician in both the hospital and clinic settings
• Performs and documents physical exams and interviews as well as the plan of care as decided by the physician 
• Discusses relevant findings with the physician. 
• Ensures appropriate medications and follow-up are ordered and scheduled.

• Educates patients and their family about cardiac and medical issues, outcomes, the role of the caregiver, and medication management.

Hospital Responsibilities:

• Serve as physician extender in the hospital & outpatient clinic setting
• Participate in discharge planning as directed by the physician
• Start & complete discharge process in hospital's medical record for KSC Cardiology inpatients as directed by the physician
• Participate in daily physician rounds and follow up on KSC cardiology patients as directed by the physician
• Assist in the completion of procedure documentation as needed for diagnostic and interventional procedures as directed by the physician

• Actively participate and serve as the primary point of contact for department EPIC Optimization requests and implementations

Cardiology Clinic Responsibilities:

• Serve as physician extender in the clinic setting
• Evaluate patients in the clinic setting
• Document evaluations in a timely manner
• Order medications and tests as per guidelines and protocols
• Follow-up on tests and consults
• Schedule clinical studies as per guidelines and protocols
• Coordinate referrals/consults
• Handle MKO messages, results, CC charts, telephone encounters and surgical risk assessments as needed within scope of practice and as directed by the supervising physician
• Actively participate and serve as the primary point of contact for department EPIC Optimization requests and implementations from the clinical provider perspective

• Substitutes for other department extenders as needed, which will take priority to other duties, both inpatient and outpatient