Physician Assistant/First Assist - Cardiac Surgery - Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington, KYFull-time$7.25/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1w ago
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Job overview
The Physician Assistant/First Assist supports cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgeries alongside surgeons. The role also includes hospital rounds, admitting and discharging patients, consultations, taking calls, and patient care. The APP provides direct care as part of a physician-led team and collaborates with other health professionals.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Experience Required
None
Minimum Education Required
Bachelor's Degree
Compensation
$7.25 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
Job Description
Summary
First assist in surgery performing cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgeries with the surgeons. Making daily hospital rounds, admitting & discharging patients from hospital. Seeing consults, taking calls, & patient care.
Job Description:
Job Summary
The Baptist Health Medical Group (BHMG) APP reflects the mission, vision, and values of BHMG adheres to the organization's Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.
The APP functions autonomously and collaborates with other health professionals to provide high quality, cost effective care to patients, manages health care systems and influence health care decision-making through expert clinical reasoning, research, theory-based practice. The APP is responsible for providing direct patient care as part of the physician led team in accordance with State Law and approved Medical Staff privileges.
Minimum Education, Training and Experience Required
Bachelor's degree and successful completion of accredited APP program. Terminal degree in APP field preferred.
National certification from the appropriate national certifying agency for the particular APP.
Must maintain national certification.
Eligible at all times to be insured for professional liability.
Current valid and unrestricted license to practice as an APP in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
BCLS required through the American Heart Association.
ACLS as required for position
If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!
Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
"EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to r ace, color, national origin, gender, s exual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES
Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056."
Job Type
Full time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
R26100264
How this job compares
Set against the 7,805 open Physician Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$7.25/hr
- Kentucky median$7/hr28 hourly ranges
- US median$46–90/hr1,907 hourly ranges
This rate, $7.25/hr, is close to the Kentucky median midpoint ($7/hr) — in the middle half of Physician Assistant hourly ranges in Kentucky.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 40 open Physician Assistant jobs in Kentucky and 7,805 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Baptist Health (this employer)12 open
- Norton Healthcare7 open
- Concentra, Inc5 open
- Experience
- Physician Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (2,070 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,540 of the 7,805 open Physician Assistant jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Physician Assistant jobs
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 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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