Physician Assistant (PA) - Hematology/Oncology
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego
San Diego, CAJobSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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The Acute Care Physician Assistant provides care to a defined patient population under physician supervision, serving acute, critical, complex chronically ill, and well patients in the designated care service division. The role delivers preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic healthcare within licensure and hospital policies, and may include scheduled or as-needed on-call duties. The position also includes practitioner, consultant, educator, and researcher functions in a specialized patient-care area.
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JOB SUMMARY:
The Acute Care Physician Assistant position is accountable for a defined patient population under the supervision of a licensed physician. The Physician Assistant is the primary provider of care to acute, critical, complex chronically ill and well Acute Care patients collaboratively for the designated care service division. Implements the role of expert practitioner, consultant, educator, and researcher within a specialized area of patient care. Provides preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic healthcare services within the scope of licensure and in accordance with hospital policies and procedures. Some positions will be responsible for being on call according to a predetermined schedule or as needed, pursuant to hospital needs.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's Degree
1 Year of Experience
BLS for Health Providers (American Heart Association)
Ped Adv Life Support Prov(American Heart Association)
Completion of a Physician Assistant Program
Current California Physician's Assistant License
Successful completion of Medical Staff Credentialing
Medicare Billing Number (NPI-National Provider Identifier) upon hire but no later than 3 months of employment
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) controlled substance II, Iln, III, Illn, IV, V as required by department, dependent on scope of practice; if employee required to have DEA, employee will request Medical Staff Privileges form and will go thru the AHP Med Staff privileging process to prescribe Controlled Substances 2-5. Current DEA certificate will be tracked and maintained by Medical Staff Office
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Master's Degree
2 years of experience in a Direct Clinical Care Position within Specialty area if no acute care PA experience
Formal in-service education and/or lecturing skills
EOE including disability/vet
How this job compares
Set against the 7,866 open Physician Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$150–200K/yr129 salary ranges
- California median$92–115/hr80 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 293 open Physician Assistant jobs in California and 7,866 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Kaiser Permanente50 open
- Dignity Health25 open
- Sutter Health24 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Physician Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (2,107 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,574 of the 7,866 open Physician Assistant jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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