Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Skilled Nursing Facility

Location:

Windy Hill Village

Shift:

Days (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Worker Type:

Regular

Exemption Status:

Yes

Job Summary:

The Geisinger Skilled Nursing Program is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant at Heritage Ridge Senior Living at Windy Hill in Philipsburg PA.

Job Duties:

This position is for a Geisinger provider working within a contracted skilled nursing facility. It requires an experienced advanced practitioner with prior clinical experience in skilled nursing family medicine internal medicine or intensive care. The advanced practitioner (AP) provides direct (hands-on) care in skilled nursing facilities with a goal to improve quality and prevent unnecessary re-admissions to the acute care setting.

Geisinger has much to offer:

• Attractive schedule - Monday - Friday 8 am 4:30 pm

• Rotating call schedule

• No weekend hours

• $10k recruitment incentive

• Continuing Medical Education 10 days and $3000 annually

• Six paid holidays

• Paid Time Off - 23 days

Responsibilities:

• Review reports

• Communicate with SNF staff for patient needs

• Treat patients for acute needs admissions discharges etc.

• Manage extremely complex patients see every day or at least once a week

• Approximately 12 patients a day

• Length of time per patient and number of patients is per need

Position Details:

Education:

Masters Degree-Physician Assistant (Required)

Experience:

Minimum of 2 years-Related work experience (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s):

Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing BodyDefault Issuing Body Certified Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)

Skills:

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients our members our students our Geisinger family and our communities.

• KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
• EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
• LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
• INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients our members our community and the nation.
• SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one including vision dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration cooperation and collegiality.

Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age pregnancy genetic information disability status as a protected veteran or any other protected category under applicable federal state and local laws.