Manager, Advanced Practitioners - Surgical Services

St. Luke’s University Health Network; Bethlehem (Northampton County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's University Health Network is seeking an experienced Manager, Advanced Practitioners to lead the service line’s APs, ensuring onboarding, education, and daily clinical operations align with strategic goals.

You will mentor APs and partner with physician and administrative leadership to maintain high-quality care and efficient service delivery. The role requires a Master’s degree, PA/NP licensure in PA/NJ, and NCCPA certification for PAs, with prior AP leadership and surgical experience

Qualifications

• Master’s degree required; MHA/MBA preferred.
• Current PA/NP license in PA and/or NJ.
• NCCPA certification for PAs is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead AP onboarding, orientation, and education.
• Oversee day-to-day AP operations and performance.
• Partner with physician and admin leadership on department goals.
• Recruitment and hiring of APs; ensure competency development.
• Ensure APs comply with policies and quality standards.

Skills

Leadership

AP/PA mentorship

Clinical operations

Policy compliance

Education

Master’s degree required; PA/NP license

NCCPA certification for PAs

Job description

St. Luke's is proud of the skills, experience and compassion of its employees. The employees of St. Luke's are our most valuable asset! Individually and together, our employees are dedicated to satisfying the mission of our organization which is an unwavering commitment to excellence as we care for the sick and injured; educate physicians, nurses and other health care providers; and improve access to care in the communities we serve, regardless of a patient's ability to pay for health care.

The Manager, Advanced Practitioners is a clinical leader, but also administratively responsible for physician assistants and nurse practitioners (APs), in reference to personnel matters and day to day operations. Partners with service line’s physician and administrative leadership, ensuring the AP onboarding/orientation, education, and daily clinical operations, are successfully accomplished and aligned with the service-line’s strategy and goals. Responsible for ensuring the APs are efficient, coordinated, and compliant with department policies & procedures. Responsible for APs day-to day operations, ensuring high quality standard of care is delivered and strategic goals are achieved, in a fiscally responsible manner. In addition to the Manager, Advanced Practitioners position, he/she is responsible for providing clinical services to the service line as defined in the Advanced Practitioner job description.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Partners with administrative and physician leadership, in accomplishing the goals and initiatives of the department.
• Serve as a mentor and resource for service-line’s APs, regarding clinical, professional, and administrative leadership development.
• Responsible for service-line’s APs day to day operations
• In conjunction with physician leadership and administration, is responsible for advance practitioner personnel matters & decisions, both internal and external, to the department. (i.e. formal counseling for disciplinary reasons)
• Identifies needs and required support for the APs within the department.
• Assists with development of programs or services, to meet those needs.
• Resource for staff and physicians, in relation to AP scope of practice, the multidisciplinary care model, and the job role of the AP.
• Coordination of AP students being assigned, and successfully completing clinical rotations with service-line and/or provider group.
• Assists with recruitment & hiring of APs
• Maintains a formal/documented onboarding/orientation process for APs hired onto the service line.
• Ensures completion of required AP educational activities & requirements (i.e. competency, skill reviews, mandatory in-servicing)
• Facilitates and/or participates in AP group, service-line, hospital, and/or unit operational and clinical committee meetings
• Attends and participates in department’s operations, clinical review/development, and performance improvement/quality committees and/or meetings.
• Ensures monthly rounding, and annual performance evaluations, are completed on APs, in a timely manner
• All duties, responsibilities, and functions of the Advance Practitioner job description
• Other related duties, as assigned

PHYSICAL AND SENSORY REQUIREMENTS:

Sit up to 3-5 hours per day; 1-2 hours at a time. Stand for up to 3-5 hours per day; 2 hours at a time. Walk 1 hour per day. Frequently lifting, carrying and pushing objects up to 10 pounds. Rarely lifting, carrying and pushing objects up to 75 pounds. Frequently stooping and bending. Frequently reaching above shoulder level. Must be able to perceive attributes of an object through touch. Must be able to hear as it relates to normal conversation, high and low frequencies. Must be able to see as it relates to general, near, far, color and peripheral vision. Must be able to speak as it relates to normal conversation and projection as it relates to lectures and presentations.

EDUCATION:

Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner, Medical Physician Assistant, or Osteopathic Physician Assistant with current license to practice in the state of Pennsylvania and/or New Jersey. Master’s Degree required; MHA/MBA preferred; Doctorate optional. Physician Assistants must also have a current certification through the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

Three (3) years experience in Advanced Practitioner leadership preferred. Three (3) years of surgical experience preferred.

Please complete your application using your full legal name and current home address. Be sure to include employment history for the past seven (7) years, including your present employer. Additionally, you are encouraged to upload a current resume, including all work history, education, and/or certifications and licenses, if applicable. It is highly recommended that you create a profile at the conclusion of submitting your first application. Thank you for your interest in St. Luke's!!

St. Luke's University Health Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 23,000 employees providing services at 16 campuses and 350+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue in excess of $4 billion, the Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital. SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. The Network’s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Premier 13 times total and eleven years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. In 2021, St. Luke’s was identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally. St. Luke’s is the ONLY health care institution in the Lehigh Valley to be named a Top Workplace regionally repeating the exclusive honor for the third year in a row. Also, for the third straight year, St. Luke’s has been a Top Workplaces in the Philadelphia Region by the Philadelphia Inquirer, ranking 9th in the large employer category for 2025 and the only health care system in PA to receive this award. In 2025, St. Luke’s was recognized as a national Top Workplaces by USA Today, three years in a row, including the 3rd best health care system in the nation in 2023 and 2024. Lastly, in 2025, St. Luke’s was named a Top Workplace in New Jersey for the third year in a row.

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