Physician Assistant

We are seeking a Physician Assistant for our Torrance office at Los Angeles Cancer Network. The Physician Assistant functions as part of a care team that, working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary health team, is responsible for providing comprehensive patient care. The Physician Assistant provides independent and collaborative medical management to a defined patient population, according to standardized procedures, and collaborates with Senior Director of APP Operations

As a successful candidate, you will:  

• Provide primary, secondary, and in some cases, tertiary care within the scope of practice, licensure, and organizational policies.
• Services provided include, but are not limited to, taking histories, conducting physical examinations, ordering, performing, and interpreting appropriate diagnostic and laboratory tests and therapies, and furnishing drugs and devices in a cost-efficient manner for specific conditions.
• Perform history and physical assessments of patients that are accurate, concise, relevant, and appropriate.
• Document the consultation and the new patient note.
• Perform routine procedures pertinent to the practice and as granted through the privilege process.
• During simple follow-up cases, you may independently manage patients in follow-up, including ordering follow-up imaging, providing medical care, and support to the patient,t including ordering pharmacological agents.
• Interprets imaging and communicates with the attending physician regarding interval patient change.
• Prescribe and counsel patients on narcotic use safety.
• Demonstrate pharmacologic knowledge, including indications, contraindications, side effects, interactions, and adverse effects of pharmacologic agents.
• Review treatment and therapy plans with patients and appropriate family members.
• Practice clinical care informed by evidence-based literature.
• Instruct and counsel patients in matters related to health care management, including diet, medication and physical and mental health needs and refers to the appropriate specialists when appropriate.