| JOB TITLE: Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner LOCATION: Danville, PA DEPARTMENT: Palliative Care, Cancer Institute WORK SCHEDULE: Rotation WORK TYPE: Full-time Geisinger is seeking an advanced practitioner to join our Palliative Medicine team, located in Danville, PA. This is an excellent opportunity for a new graduate or experienced nurse practitioner. Successful candidate will perform, under the responsibility and supervision of the physician/surgeon, diagnostic and therapeutic tasks to allow the physician to extend services through the more effective and efficient use of knowledge in a sphere of decision-making required to establish a diagnosis and to plan therapy. Assists in gathering the data necessary and implementing the therapeutic plan of the physician. Serves as the patient's advocate in the medical care system serving as confidant, advisor, and liaison between the patient and physician.
Reports directly to the supervising physician for all patient-care-related functions.
Reports to the Department Director for non-patient administrative responsibilities as a physician extender. WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS: | Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. |
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE: 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 NCCPA certification 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. Geisinger offers Advanced Practitioners: * Domestic Partner Benefits * Paid malpractice insurance * Market competitive wages - constantly monitored * Generous Paid Time Off policy * Funding for CME and paid CME days * Relocation for qualified candidates * Health Care Benefits Starting Day 1: including vision and dental * Interview expenses for qualified candidates For more information, please contact Stephanie Figueroa, Talent Management, Geisinger at smfigueroa@geisinger.edu 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. GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER: (GMC), located Danville, Pa., the largest tertiary/quaternary care teaching hospital in the region, is licensed for 475 beds, including 89 pediatric beds in the Janet Weis Children’s Hospital. GMC, a Magnet Hospital, maintains the region’s only Level 1 Regional Resource Trauma Center with additional qualifications in pediatrics. GMC offers an array of highly specialized medical and surgical services, including neurosciences, cardiovascular services, transplantation, women’s health (in the Women’s Pavilion), oncology and orthopaedics. The Hospital for Advanced Medicine serves as an integrated center for the most critical patients. Outpatient services are available on and off campus. ABOUT GEISINGER: Geisinger is a physician-led health system comprised of approximately 30,000 employees, including nearly 1,600 employed physicians, 13 hospital campuses, two research centers, and a 583,000-member health plan Geisinger is nationally recognized for innovative practices and quality care. Geisinger serves more than 3 million people in central, south-central and northeast Pennsylvania and also in southern New Jersey with the addition of National Malcolm Baldridge Award recipient AtlantiCare, A member of Geisinger. In 2017, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine became the newest member of 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. For more information, visit www.geisinger.org, or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. ** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver. 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. *Domestic partner benefits not applicable at Geisinger Holy Spirit. | 
