Physiatry Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant PartTime Skilled Nursing Facility Savannah

Fortis Care; Savannah (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

1099 contractor

Flexible schedule

Independent practice

Job summary

Fortis Care is seeking an experienced Physiatry Advanced Practice Provider to join our Savannah facility as a 1099 independent contractor. You will round with a partner SNF, evaluate barriers to recovery, and perform injections and spasticity management to restore therapy participation.

You will build and own a patient panel, coordinate with therapy and nursing teams, and be rewarded for productive RVU-driven days, with no cap on volume.

Qualifications

• Current NP or PA license in Georgia (state licensure).
• NP: certification in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, or Family Practice; PA: NCCPA certification.
• Unrestricted DEA license (reimbursed).

Responsibilities

• Evaluate residents unable to progress with focused functional, musculoskeletal, and neuromuscular exams.
• Provide injections, spasticity management, dry needling, and targeted medications.
• Coordinate with PT/OT and nursing to build durable care plans.
• Recheck, adjust, document, and refer beyond physiatry when needed.
• Serve as the facility's go-to resource on therapy readiness and mobility.

Skills

Geriatric medicine

Post-acute care

Patient panel management

Communication skills

Clinical collaboration

Education

Georgia NP or PA license

DEA license

NCCPA certification (PA)

Tools

Electronic Health Records

Job description

What You'll Be Doing

You are the reason a resident who couldn't tolerate 30 minutes of PT last week is walking to the dining room this week.

As Fortis Care's Physiatry Advanced Practice Provider, you round at our partner skilled nursing facility in Savannah and see the residents who are stuck — the ones whose knee pain, shoulder impingement, spasticity, or neuropathic pain is keeping them from participating in therapy. You assess what's blocking them, you treat it, and you hand them back to the therapy team ready to work.

This is a 1099 independent contractor engagement. You set your own days, run your own panel, and are compensated on what you produce — not on hours logged.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate residents flagged by therapy or nursing as unable to progress — a focused functional, musculoskeletal, and neuromuscular exam to find the actual barrier.

• Treat it directly: peripheral joint and soft-tissue injections (knees, shoulders, hips), spasticity management including botulinum toxin, trigger point and dry needling, and targeted medication management.

• Build the plan with PT/OT, nursing, and the attending team — including DME, bracing, and adaptive equipment — so the functional gain sticks after you leave the room

• Follow through : recheck, adjust, document, and elevate or refer anything outside physiatry's lane.
  

• Teach : you become the facility's go-to resource on therapy readiness, mobility, fall prevention, and pain that's getting in the way of recovery.

Who Thrives Here

• You want to own a panel and be the expert in the building, not the seventh provider in a rotation.

• You're interested in procedures — or already doing them — and want to build real volume in peripheral joint injections and spasticity management.

• You like geriatric and post-acute medicine and find complexity interesting rather than exhausting.

• You're comfortable making decisions independently and know when to pick up the phone.

• You want measurable wins : a resident who regains transfers, a discharge home instead of long-term care, a readmission that didn't happen.

Skills & Abilities

• Strong clinical knowledge of adult and geriatric medicine, with expertise in post-surgical, post-acute, and chronic disease management.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the poise to manage high expectations from discerning patients, families, and referring physicians.
• Ability to manage a patient panel efficiently while maintaining a high standard of care and an unhurried bedside manner.

Qualifications

• Current Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant license in the state of Georgia.
• For NPs: certification in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, or Family Practice required. For PAs: current NCCPA certification required.
• Must have an unrestricted DEA license or wiling to obtain (we reimburse you)
• Minimum 1-2 years of NP or PA experience preferred; experience in subacute rehab, post-acute, SNF, or geriatrics strongly preferred.
• Ability to work independently in a facility setting with physician support.
• Familiarity with EHR systems and clinical documentation best practices.

Compensation & Engagement Terms

• Paid at per work RVU on the encounters and procedures you personally perform and document.

• Transparent monthly production reporting

• Paid on a bi-weekly cycle with a guarantee that we mutually set so no ramp to build your practic

• No cap. Your procedural volume — injections, spasticity management, dry needling — carries meaningful RVU weight, so a productive physiatry day pays substantially better than a standard rounding day.

Why Fortis Care

At Fortis Care, we believe every patient deserves attentive, high-quality care delivered where they are. Our physician-led team partners with nursing facilities to provide expert, consistent, and compassionate medical services right at the bedside.

We take a holistic approach to health, combining expert clinical care with chronic care coordination to ensure patients' needs are met across the continuum of care. By focusing on quality, efficiency, and teamwork, we improve outcomes and reduce unnecessary hospitalizations while treating every patient with dignity and respect.

As part of Fortis Care, you'll join a collaborative, mission-driven team that values independence, ownership, and doing the right thing for patients and partners. We invest in our clinicians, celebrate hard work, and provide opportunities to grow alongside a company that is redefining post-acute care.