Career Opportunities: Physician Assistant - Neurosurgery )

Requisition ID -Posted08/18/2026 -Allied Health

Title: Physician Assistant - Neurosurgery

Hours of Work: (2) Full-Time Position, Rotating (10 hour shifts)

Salary: $97,794.84 - $125,955.77 per annum

Location: Kingston General Hospital site

POSITION SUMMARY :

Physician Assistants (PAs) are regulated health professionals under the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO). They practice medicine under delegation and supervision agreements while exercising independent judgment within their regulated scope. PAs apply evidence-based medical knowledge to provide secure, effective, and ethical care that supports access, efficiency, and continuity of patient care across KHSC. PAs are educated along the medical model and function as “physician extenders”. PAs actively participate in the medical care of patients by conducting patient histories and physical examinations, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, formulating differential diagnoses and collaborating with their Supervising Physician(s) to determine a finite diagnosis with appropriate treatment plan. This allows patients to have efficient access to medical care while simultaneously relieving the burden of attending physicians. Having a PA can improve continuity of care, increase access to quality health care, increase discharge rates and decrease length of inpatient stay.

RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES INCLUDE :

Clinical Service and Direct Patient Care

- Conducting and charting patient histories, physical exams, assessing patient response to treatment
- Ordering and interpreting investigations




- Consulting medical specialties and allied health professionals
- Ordering pharmacologic and supportive care: medical therapy, oxygen, intravenous lines, supplementary diets, bladder care, wound care, activity level etc
- Outpatient Clinic: perform new and follow up assessments for patients in clinic
- Consultations: new patient assessments as requested by medical specialist (ie, ICU, ED, inpatient ward, outpatient clinic)
- Patient & Family Education: provide instructions to raise awareness, decrease morbidity/mortality and promote health maintenance.

Operative Room Assisting and Performing Minor Procedures

- Surgical assisting: intraoperative first assists for neurosurgical cases (emergencies and elective)
- Procedures: Depending on the clinical setting and a PA’s individual scope-of-practice, procedures can include;
- External Ventricular Drain
- Feeding tubes
- Lumbar punctures and Lumbar Drains
- Suturing
- Punch Biopsies
- Casting
- Central Lines

Sanctioning Patient Flow and Discharge Planning

- Multidisciplinary Rounds: attending interdisciplinary team and board rounds for disposition planning.
- Discharges: liaise with Supervising Physician(s), nursing staff and allied health professionals to organize discharge plan and outpatient services.



PAs are also responsible for providing physician hand-over (ie; doctor-to-doctor or transfer notes), completing discharge summaries, ordering follow-up instructions and writing scripts in compliance with KHSC and CPSO requirements .
- Admissions: activating treatment plan for new admissions, writing admission and/or post-operative orders.
- Transfers: assessing patient readiness for intra-hospital transfer (ie, step-down to ward, ward-step down) and inter-hospital transfer (ie, repatriation to local hospital, or transfer to rehab facility, convalescent care etc)

Provide Clinical and Professional Leadership

- Provide clinical leadership to allied health, nursing staff, and medical learners.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of institutional policies, procedures, practices and performance standards:
- Creation, implementation and maintenance of Medical Directives.
- Continuously evolving scope-of-practice and skill set.
- Learning plans & procedure logs.
- Evaluation of residents and medical learners for their Competency Based Learning requirements

- Lead as a change agent and support the implementation of key practice initiatives.

- PA assessments in MSAP clinic to decrease outpatient wait times
- PA participation in the “on-call” schedule: allowing for advanced medical care on evenings/weekends when there is no direct coverage by physician or resident. PAs act as first responders for incoming consults through ED/ICU/inpatient wards, manage acute emergencies on inpatients, round on the wards, sanction patient flow, assist in the OR, perform high risk procedures. This is

📌 Physician Assistant (Kingston)
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