Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Family Medicine newly increased compensation

Geisinger; Selinsgrove (Snyder County); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Geisinger is looking for a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our Primary Care team in Selinsgrove. The role offers competitive salaries, recruitment incentives, and comprehensive support for both new and experienced practitioners, contributing to a strong community-focused healthcare environment.

Benefits

Recruitment incentives up to $20k

10 days of Continuing Medical Education annually

Tuition reimbursement for professional development

Collaborative work environment

Healthcare benefits from day one

Qualifications

• Licensed as a Nurse Practitioner in PA or eligible.
• Current NCCPA certification or eligibility for Physician Assistant.

Responsibilities

• Manage medically complex patients with extended appointment times.
• Coordinate with care team for patient management.
• Utilize Epic EMR for patient documentation and care.

Skills

Care Management Knowledge

Patient Assessment And Care

Clinical Policies And Standards

Health Information Documentation

Patient Safety

Patients Rights

Education

Master's Degree - Physician Assistant

Completion of an approved Nurse Practitioner program

Job description

Location:

Geisinger Primary Care Selinsgrove

Shift:

Rotation (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Worker Type:

Regular

Exemption Status:

Yes

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 BodyDefault Issuing Body, Certified Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)

Skills:

Care Management Knowledge, Clinical Policies And Standards, Health Information Documentation, Patient Assessment And Care, Patient Safety, Patients Rights

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.

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.