Lead Advanced Practice Provider - Outpatient ENT

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Day 08 Hour (United States of America)

Position Overview:
Our outpatient Comprehensive ENT practice provides highquality care to patients with a wide variety of ear nose and throat conditions. We are committed to providing compassionate evidencebased and patientcentered care. Join a supportive team where innovation and collaboration drive our success in delivering the best possible outcomes for our patients. We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Lead Advanced Practice Provider (APP) to join our dynamic outpatient Comprehensive ENT team. This hybrid role offers an exciting blend of clinical and administrative responsibilities where you will provide highquality patient care while also taking on leadership and team development duties. The position is a mix of 60 clinical and 40 administrative work. You will collaborate closely with a team of 7 APPs working across our locations in Redwood City Palo Alto and San Jose.

Key Responsibilities:
Conduct both independent visits as well as collaborative care in coordination with physicians and other healthcare team members.
Perform detailed assessments diagnosis and management plans for ENT patients.
Administer treatments procedures and followup care for patients as appropriate.
Educate patients and families on conditions treatment plans and preventative care.
Serve as a mentor and leader for the team of 7 APPs across the three locations providing guidance and support.
Lead team meetings attend monthly Center for Advanced Practice leadership meetings conduct performance evaluations recruit and hire new APPs as well as onboard new hires.

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview
Provides supervision and management of advanced practice providers (APPs) in a distinct clinical service line. Provides clinical direction and education works closely with operational and physician leaders and has oversight of hiring termination and professional growth and development of their APPs. Also functions under the general Nurse Practitioner (NP) Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) or the Physician Assistant (PA) Job Description approved by the Interdisciplinary Practice Committee (IDPC).

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• The essential functions of a Lead Advanced Practice Professional fall in three categories: Clinical Oversight and Leadership; Administration; and Internal/External Legal/Regulatory Issues. The Lead APP must supervise a minimum of 10 APPs.
• Clinical Oversight and Leadership:
• Codirect the clinical operational and administrative initiatives of the service line Medical Director and unit nursing management team.
• Conduct regularly scheduled meetings with the staff APPs.
• Ensure clinical competency and adherence to policy through practice analysis and case review of APPs with physicians.
• Investigate and respond to patient/family complaints from patients and families about care.
• Orient new staff APPs.
• Provide education to staff APPs.
• Participates as a representative the in hospitalwide committees.
• Serve as a representative on the professional and evaluation committees.
• Ensures all operational mandates and initiatives are completed (e.g. CICARE rounds).
• Administration:
• Review and participate in financial planning and issues for the service.
• Participate in the hiring evaluation coaching mentoring and discipline of staff APPs.
• Investigate and resolve operational issues.
• Coordinate quality improvement/process improvement programs.
• Provide 24hour administrator oncall coverage for the service line.
• Coordinate the scheduling of the APPs.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Internal and External Legal/Regulatory Issues:
• Ensure compliance and participate in Medical Staff Services initiatives policies and procedures.
• Be informed of and advocate for practice models that allow clinicians to practice to the fullest extent of their scope of practice.
• Participate in regional and national discussions that affect APP practice.
• Work with hospital operations in regards to funding/billing/reimbursement models.
• Participate in the legislative and health policy issues affecting advanced practice.

Education Qualifications

• Advanced Practice Nurse: Masters or Doctorate Degree in Nursing or other healthcarerelated field from an accredited university.
• Physician Assistant: Bachelors degree in Science Physician Assistant Studies or Healthcare related field from an accredited university.

Experience Qualifications

• A minimum of one 1 year of experience as a licensed advanced practice provider: (Physician Assistant Nurse Practitioner Clinical Nurse Specialist or Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist).
• Three 3 years of APP experience preferred.
• Management experience preferred.

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of:
• These are the observable and measurable attributes and skills required to perform successfully the essential functions of the job and are generally demonstrated through qualifying experience education or licensure/certification.
• Management principles and practices such as but not limited to employee hiring evaluation counseling and termination; budgeting; and employee recognition and rewards.
• Practice evaluation and process improvement.
• National professional organizational and regulatory agency initiatives.
• Standards of care and practice of APP roles.
• Ability to:
• Knowledge and demonstrated clinical competence and in depth knowledge in specialty.
• Knowledge of the organization and operation of trauma services necessary to ensure the delivery of quality costeffective and efficient patient care.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with widely diverse groups including individuals at all levels both within and outside the organization and gain their cooperation.
• Ability to plan organize prioritize work independently and meet deadlines.
• Ability to promote a spirit of inquiry and practice based on evidence by using research based knowledge or research utilization methods to identify and implement innovations in patient care and/or participating in research clinical investigatory or quality projects.
• Ability to use educational strategies to influence the development of staff and the provision of quality care for patients and families.
• Communicate effectively in many venues from individual 1on1 sessions to a large audience.
• Recognize/reward or counsel staff.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Conduct efficient and supportive process improvement activities.
• Contribute positively proactively and adeptly in institutionwide and Center of Advanced Practice initiatives.
• Translate and implement national initiatives at SHC.
• Ability to work fulltime.

Licenses and Certifications

• PA Physician Assistant State Licensure or
• RN Valid California license to practice as a Registered Nurse AND one of the following advanced practice nursing licenses is qualifying: (a) NP Valid California license to practice as a Nurse Practitioner as well as having current national certification(b) CNS Valid California license to practice as a Clinical Nurse Specialist as well as having current national certification or(c) CRNA Valid California license to practice as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist as well as having current national certification.

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute CICARE standards for all of patients families and towards each other. CICARE is the foundation of Stanfords patientexperience and represents a framework for patientcentered interactions. Simply put we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars from the patient and familys perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and nondiscrimination inall ofits policies and practices including the area of employment. Accordingly SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race color sex sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression religion age national or ethnic origin political beliefs marital status medical condition genetic information veteran status or disability or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders members of all racial and ethnic groups people with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $97.11 $128.65 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity experience education specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.