Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Family Medicinenewly increased compensation

Job Title : Nurse Practitioner or

Physician Assistant Family Medicine newly increased

compensation

Location : Lewisburg,

Pennsylvania

Job Category : Physician

Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Advanced

Practice

Schedule : Days

Work Type : Full

time

Department : Community Medicine

Advanced Practitioners Division

Date Posted : 08 / 07 / 2024

Job ID : R-65755

Job SummaryGeisinger is seeking an

experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our

Primary Care team in Lewisburg, PA. This site qualifies for a $20k

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. The

Geisinger Lewisburg clinic is minutes from

downtown!

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 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.

EducationMaster's Degree-Physician Assistant

(Required)

Certification(s) and License(s)Certified

Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of

Physician Assistants (NCCPA); Basic Life Support Certification -

Default Issuing Body

Our Purpose & ValuesOUR 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.