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Our client in North Carolina is actively seeking a dedicated Cardiology Physician Assistant for a challenging 48-day locum tenens assignment, commencing Sep 1, 2026. This vital role involves comprehensive daily rounds on general cardiology service line patients, performing new consults, and managing admissions through discharge. Responsibilities include...
Location:NC
Specialty:Cardiology
Provider Type:Physician Assistant
We are seeking a Cardiology Physician Assistant for a 60-day assignment with our client in North Carolina, starting Jul 1, 2026. This role involves comprehensive patient care from 7p-7a, focusing on daily rounds for cardiology patients, meticulous documentation including progress notes and H&Ps, ordering necessary tests and medications, and performing...
Location:NC
Specialty:Cardiology
Provider Type:Physician Assistant
Our client in North Carolina is seeking a dedicated Family Practice Physician Assistant for a 30-day assignment starting Aug 13, 2026. This role involves providing urgent care to patients of all ages, including minor procedures, with the schedule to be determined. The Physician Assistant will be responsible for managing a high volume of patients, often...
Location:NC
Specialty:Urgent Care
Provider Type:Physician Assistant
We are seeking an Urgent Care Physician Assistant for a 60-day assignment in North Carolina, starting Sep 7, 2026. This role involves managing high-volume patient care as a sole provider, treating both adult and pediatric patients, with a schedule of 12-hour weekday shifts and 8-hour weekend shifts.Responsibilities and DutiesProvide high-quality care...
Location:NC
Specialty:Urgent Care
Provider Type:Physician Assistant
We are seeking a Pediatric Hospitalist Physician Assistant for a 90-day assignment in North Carolina, starting Oct 7, 2026. This role involves 14-hour night shifts, primarily focused on accepting and admitting patients, cross-covering floor and Hospital at Home patients, and providing virtual ED consults to regional sites. The successful candidate will...
Location:NC
Specialty:Pediatric Hospitalist
Provider Type:Physician Assistant
We are seeking a dedicated Physician Assistant - Surgery - General for a 90-day assignment in North Carolina. This role offers a M-F 5x8 schedule from 7a to 330p, starting Oct 7, 2026. The position primarily involves rounding on post-surgical patients, seeing in-patient consults for facial trauma, and providing telehealth consults for outside institutions.Responsibilities...
Location:NC
Specialty:Trauma Surgery
Provider Type:Physician Assistant
We are seeking a skilled Urgent Care Physician Assistant for a 48-day locum tenens assignment in North Carolina, commencing Jul 29, 2026. This role requires an independent provider comfortable with 12-hour weekday and 8-hour weekend shifts, managing over 40 patients per shift within an urgent care setting that focuses on acute care and common urgent...
Location:NC
Specialty:Urgent Care
Provider Type:Physician Assistant
Our client in NC is seeking a Surgical Oncology Physician Assistant for a 120-day assignment starting Nov 1, 2026. This role involves covering an inpatient floor census of 10-15 patients, seeing patients in clinic, and supporting three surgeons with primarily pre-operative and post-operative care, with shifts scheduled from 7a to 3p.Responsibilities...
Location:NC
Specialty:Surgical Oncology
Provider Type:Physician Assistant
Our client is actively seeking a skilled Internal Medicine Physician Assistant for a 90-day assignment in North Carolina, commencing Jul 15, 2026. This dynamic role involves delivering urgent care services to adult and pediatric patients, performing minor procedures including incision and drainage, laceration repair, and ear irrigation. The schedule...
Location:NC
Specialty:Urgent Care
Provider Type:Physician Assistant
We are seeking an Urgent Care Physician Assistant to join our client in North Carolina for a 60-day assignment starting Jul 15, 2026. This role involves providing primary care services with an emphasis on urgent care overflow, working 12-hour shifts during weekdays and 8-hour shifts on weekends.Responsibilities and DutiesProvide comprehensive primary...
Location:NC
Specialty:Urgent Care
Provider Type:Physician Assistant
Locum tenens PA jobs are contract roles designed to fill gaps in care at healthcare facilities over a specific timeframe. These assignments can range from a week to well over a year. Locum and travel physician assistants hold all the same qualifications as a permanent physician assistant, and often choose locum work for higher pay and increased flexibility. Explore our locum tenens guide to learn more.
In North Carolina, the average PA salary is $123,860 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
PAs must practice under the supervision of a licensed physician. In general, PAs in North Carolina have advanced practice authority. Advanced authority means that PAs can practice to the full extent of their medical education, but they still must comply with administrative requirements.
In North Carolina, PAs are required to fulfill 50 CE hours every two years.
The employment for PAs is expected to grow 27% between 2022 to 2032. This is much faster than other jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there are 12,200 openings for PAs every year, over the course of the decade.
The highest paid PA specialty is cardiovascular surgery at $152,500 annually, according to the American Academy of Physician Associates.
