Advanced Practice Provider (APP)-Pre-Kidney Transplant

Albany Med; United States; On-site; USD 125,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Albany Med Health System seeks a Pre-Kidney Transplant Advanced Practice Provider (APP) to join the Renal Transplant Service on site in Albany, NY. You will perform pre-transplant evaluations, risk assessments, and ensure coordinated care for referred patients.

Responsibilities include diagnostic review, case preparation for transplant selection, and ensuring OPTN/UNOS compliance. You will educate patients on the transplant process and immunosuppressive therapy, with opportunities for teaching

Qualifications

• Graduate of accredited NP or PA program.
• Current state licensure and national board certification.
• Experience in transplant, nephrology, or surgical specialty preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of transplant regulatory standards.
• Strong communication and interdisciplinary collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive pre-transplant evaluations, including history, physical examination, and risk stratification.
• Review and interpret diagnostic testing (laboratory studies, imaging, cardiac and malignancy screening).
• Identify and manage modifiable medical risk factors in collaboration with referring providers.
• Prepare and present cases at multidisciplinary transplant selection meetings.
• Ensure compliance with OPTN and UNOS requirements.
• Facilitate timely listing, waitlist maintenance, and documentation accuracy.
• Provide patient and family education regarding transplant processes, risks, benefits, and immunosuppressive therapy expectations.
• Coordinate recipient readiness for deceased and living donor transplantation.
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives and regulatory audits.
• Contribute to academic activities including education of trainees and protocol development as appropriate.

Skills

Transplant experience

Nephrology knowledge

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Strong communication

Education

Graduate of accredited NP/PA program

Job description

Job Overview

Department/Unit: Renal Transplant Service

Work Shift: Day (United States of America)

Salary Range: The Pre-Kidney Transplant Advanced Practice Provider (APP) provides comprehensive evaluation, risk assessment, and care coordination for patients referred to for kidney transplantation within an Albany Medical Center transplant program.

Salary Range: $124,693-$145, 475

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive pre-transplant evaluations, including history, physical examination, and risk stratification.
• Review and interpret diagnostic testing (laboratory studies, imaging, cardiac and malignancy screening).
• Identify and manage modifiable medical risk factors in collaboration with referring providers.
• Prepare and present cases at multidisciplinary transplant selection meetings.
• Ensure compliance with Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) requirements.
• Facilitate timely listing, waitlist maintenance, and documentation accuracy.
• Provide patient and family education regarding transplant processes, risks, benefits, and immunosuppressive therapy expectations.
• Coordinate recipient readiness for deceased and living donor transplantation.
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives and regulatory audits.
• Contribute to academic activities including education of trainees and protocol development as appropriate.

Qualifications, Education, Licensure, and Certification

• Graduate of accredited NP or PA program.
• Current state licensure and national board certification.
• Experience in transplant, nephrology, or surgical specialty preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of transplant regulatory standards.
• Strong communication and interdisciplinary collaboration skills.
• All position requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills, and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently.
• This position description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements.
• Employees will be required to perform any other job-related instructions given by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Thank you for your interest in Albany Med Health System! Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.

Information Governance

• This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Med Health System, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes.
• Workforce members are expected to ensure that: Access to information is based on a "need to know" and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties.
• Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose.
• Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Health System policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.

Company Overview

Albany Medical Center is the centerpiece of medicine, research, and medical education in New York's Capital Region and is the area's largest private employer with more than 10,000 employees.

Albany Medical Center offers excellent career opportunities in a wide range of roles in both patient care and administration.

We value all our staff members and offer outstanding employee benefits including:

• Excellent health care coverage with no copay at Albany Medical Center providers
• A wide array of services and programs to support emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing

Anchored in the state's historic capital city, Albany Medical Center offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient care and is home to the region’s largest hospital, only Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma centers, and only children's hospital.

The downtown campus also offers opportunities at Albany Medical College.

Albany Medical Center, along with Columbia Memorial Health, Glens Falls Hospital, Saratoga Hospital, and the Visiting Nurses, form the Albany Med Health System, serving more than three million people over 25 counties.