Leave a great SP for a job closer to home?
Hello All,
I’m an ortho PA with 4.5 years experience in a subspecialty (left out in case anyone knows me here). Currently work with a great SP who I have a wonderful relationship with, but my commute is 40 min one way. Making 145k in an academic setting. 2 OR days and 3 clinic days per week. No call, holidays or weekends. I’m in a very busy practice with upwards of 50 patients on clinic days as well as 15 patients during my independent clinics 1-2 days per week.
A job is opening at the community hospital near home, same subspecialty, 10 minute commute. This will be with a surgeon that I worked with when they were a resident (spent 3 years of his residency together). I haven’t received an offer yet, so don’t want to put the cart before the horse, but they basically said the job could be mine if I wanted it. They said pay could be comparable, but I would have to take 2nd call with my surgeon one weekend per month and one week night per week. In our discussions they said they could include “precepting” compensation as they asked if I could teach up their other PA on the subspecialty. Being a new surgeon, it will be much less busy for me.
My biggest question is has anyone left a great situation for a job closer to home, even though it meant leaving a great supervising physician? Any advice on this, how to tell them, or what I should be asking for compensation given the above situations would be great.