We are hiring an experienced cardiothoracic physician assistant in Beautiful Nashville, Tennessee!

We are hiring experienced first assistants who can assist in a busy cardiac surgery program! We will consider physician assistants, RNFA's and Surgical Assistant's for contract /locum or permanent positions!

The program consist of a 7 room CVOR. 5 rooms are dedicated towards open cases and 2 of them are hybrid rooms that we share with vascular and invasive cardiology. Our surgeons do coronary bypass grafts (CABGs), aortic, mitral, tricuspid, and pulmonic valve replacements/repairs, dissections, bentalls, Imella placements/removals, ECMO placements/removals, Pericardial Windows, Sternal I&Ds and occasionally our surgeons will place a trach or peg tube.

Our heart program averages 1100-1300 cases annually. The team assigned to each room consists of a registered nurse, a first assistant, a scrub tech, and a second assistant. Each team member works Monday-Friday from 0630-1500 with 1-2 weekends of call in a 6 week schedule. There is a dedicated call team in place that takes call from 1700-0630 Sunday-Thursday.

We are interested in permanent and contract labor. Contracts can be 90 days or 6 months!