Physician Assistant (PA-C) - On-Call Night Coverage, State Psychiatric Facility - Edinburg, TX

CLFC Healthcare and Communications
  • Edinburg, TX
  • $150,000–$200,000
28 days ago

Job Description

Join CLFC delivering critical after-hours medical coverage at Rio Grande State Center, an inpatient psychiatric facility serving an underserved South Texas population. This is a night-only, 1099 opportunity for an experienced Texas-licensed Physician Assistant to earn strong supplemental income while keeping your daytime position.

Why this stands out:

  • $800 guaranteed for every overnight on-call period, paid even if no encounter occurs
  • Plus $175 per post-restraint evaluation and $225 per H&P, a $2,500 sign-on bonus, and IRS-rate mileage
  • Night-only, flexible supplemental income; keep your current daytime position
  • CLFC arranges your Texas-registered supervising physician, you do not source your own
  • Full credentialing, privileging, and malpractice coordination handled by CLFC

Schedule: Overnight, 5:00 PM to 8:00 AM, flexible nights with primary and relief rotations. Coverage is primarily on-call availability; actual encounters vary by facility need.

What you will do:

  • Overnight on-call coverage for a state inpatient psychiatric facility
  • Post-restraint face-to-face evaluations per facility protocol
  • History and physical (H&P) admitting evaluations
  • Identify acute medical causes of behavioral change; coordinate with on-call psychiatry

What you need:

  • Active, unrestricted Texas PA license (PA-C); copy required
  • Current NCCPA certification; ARC-PA accredited program
  • Active DEA registration or eligibility (CLFC coordinates your Texas supervising physician)
  • Current BLS; able to respond on-site within the facility-required time
  • Malpractice $1M/$3M prior to start (CLFC assists coordination); clean NPDB history

Preferred: inpatient or psychiatric PA experience; emergency, hospital, correctional, or urgent-care background; CAQ-Psychiatry; ACLS; CPI/MOAB; within ~45 minutes of Harlingen; bilingual English and Spanish.

Why CLFC: we handle credentialing, malpractice, and supervising-physician arrangement so you focus on care; prompt payment; multi-year contract; part of a 500+ provider network. Self-Certified Small Disadvantaged Business and Equal Opportunity organization.

Numbers & Facts

LocationEdinburg, TX
Salary$150,000–$200,000

Skills

  • Basic Life Support (BLS)unmatched
  • English Languageunmatched
  • Health Planunmatched
  • Hospitalunmatched
  • Multilingualunmatched
  • On Callunmatched
  • Patient Careunmatched
  • Physician Assistantunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Psychiatry and Mental Healthunmatched
  • Small Businessunmatched
  • Spanish Languageunmatched
  • United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)unmatched
  • Urgent Careunmatched

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