Manager, Advanced Practitioners - Surgical Services

St. Luke's University Health Network; Bethlehem (Northampton County); Sur place; USD 110 000 - 160 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

St. Luke’s University Health Network seeks a Manager, Advanced Practitioners to lead APs and align onboarding, education, and daily clinical operations with service-line goals.

You will mentor APs, oversee day-to-day operations, manage personnel matters, support recruitment and onboarding, and participate in governance and quality initiatives to ensure high-quality care and fiscal responsibility.

Qualifications

• Certified RN Practitioner, PA, or Osteopathic PA with current PA license in PA and/or NJ.
• Master’s Degree required; MHA/MBA preferred; Doctorate optional.
• Three years of Advanced Practitioner leadership experience.
• Three years of surgical experience preferred.

Responsabilités

• Partner with administrative and physician leadership to meet department goals.
• Mentor APs on clinical, professional, and administrative development.
• Oversee AP day-to-day operations and onboarding processes.
• Handle personnel matters and decisions related to AP staff.
• Support recruitment, hiring, and credentialing of APs.
• Ensure competency reviews, education activities, and performance evaluations.

Connaissances

Leadership

Mentorship

Staff management

Recruitment

Onboarding

Education

Formation

Master’s Degree

NCCPA certification

PA/NP license PA/NJ

Description du poste

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.

St. Luke’s University Health Network is an

Equal Opportunity Employer.