Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Family Medicine newly increased compensation

Fadona; Selinsgrove (Snyder County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Geisinger is seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant for their Primary Care team in Selinsgrove, PA. The role involves caring for patients across all age ranges and offers competitive salaries, recruitment incentives, and professional development opportunities. Join a community-focused team dedicated to making impactful changes in patient care and enjoy comprehensive benefits from day one.

Benefits

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Continuing Medical Education

Retirement benefits

Relocation assistance

Qualifications

• Candidates must be eligible for licensure in Pennsylvania.
• Completion of an ARC-PA approved physician assistant program required.
• Nurse Practitioners must have certification from an approved program.

Responsibilities

• Manage care for medically complex patients with extended appointments.
• Collaborate with a physician under supervision for patient care.
• Participate in care coordination with a multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Patient care

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Master's Degree-Physician Assistant

Job description

Job Summary Geisinger is seeking an experienced or new graduate Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our Primary Care team in Selinsgrove, PA. This site qualifies for a $10k recruitment incentive.
Job Duties

Living and working here, you'll join one of our tight-knit communities, and experience a quality of life you can't get elsewhere. You'll have opportunities to better your life and make a difference. Geisinger Selinsgrove is 3 miles from Susquehanna University and 30 minutes from Geisinger Medical Center, our main campus!

At Geisinger,you have an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on your patients' lives with:

• Medically complex patients receive extended forty-minute appointments; twenty-minute appointments for patients with average complexity and acute care visits
• Physician/APP panel sharing model
• Daily huddles with care team members to review coordination of care
• Pharmacists to assist with patient education and medication management
• Care managers, health managers, clinic health associates and coding educators
• Centralized prescription refill team
• Nurse call center to assist with on-call workload (nursing home calls directed to Skilled Nursing Facility team)
• Epic EMR – universal throughout Geisinger with Ambient dictation
• Increased access to care by means of eVisits, patient portals, Geisinger's ConvenientCare urgent care clinics

Why Advanced Practitioners join Geisinger:

• Competitive Salary – newly increased salary for 2025
• Recruitment incentives up to $20k (at specific clinics) – 30-month work obligation with department (not applicable for internal, lateral transfer)
• Primary Care Architype model – stratifies onboarding, ramp-up, and practice into three tiers of increasing autonomy to ensure both new and experienced Advanced Practitioners get the support and professional satisfaction needed
• Advanced Practice Council – serves to support Geisinger Advanced Practitioners and Advanced Practitioner students
• Professional development – participate in our internal programs or utilize tuition reimbursement
• Teaching/Precepting opportunities – available via advanced practice preceptorship
• Continuing Medical Education – 10 days and $3,000 annually
• Benefits – Geisinger Benefits including liability, retirement, relocation and more!

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

Advanced Practitioner must be able to see all age ranges from Pediatric (birth) to Geriatric.

The successful Physician Assistant candidate will work under the responsibility and supervision of the physician and require completion of an ARC-PA (or predecessor organization)approved physician assistant program, current NCCPAcertification or eligibility and Pennsylvania State licensure.

The successful Nurse Practitioner candidate will work in collaboration with the physician and have a certificate of completion from an approved program for Nurse Practitioners or be eligible to hold national certification that allows the NP to work with the patient populations and location settings associated with this position. Must be eligible for licensure as a nurse practitioner in the state of PA.

Position Details
Education Master's Degree-Physician Assistant (Required)
Experience
Certification(s) and License(s) Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing Body; Certified Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)

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, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.