Neurosurgery - Physician Assistant or NursePractitioner

Job Title : Neurosurgery - Physician

Assistant or Nurse Practitioner

Location :

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Job

Category : Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant,

Advanced Practice

Schedule : Days

Work Type : Full

time

Department : Northeast Region

Neuroscience Advanced Practitioner Team

Date

Posted : 08 / 12 / 2025

Job ID : R-82803

Job SummaryGeisinger's Neuroscience

Institute is seeking a physician assistant or nurse practitioner to

join our thriving neurosurgery practice at Geisinger Wyoming Valley

Medical Center located in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

Job

Duties

The ideal candidate will enjoy a practice of 1st

assist in the OR on a weekly rotation, along with outpatient clinic

and inpatient / consult coverage. Call is included in this

position.

The neurosurgery NP or PA will join a

dedicated team of providers at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical

Center covering all areas of neurosurgery including spine, cranial,

trauma and vascular.

The successful Physician

Assistant must be a graduate of an ARC-approved physician assistant

program, eligible or certified by the National Commission for the

Certification of Physician Assistants and eligible or certified by

the State Board of Medicine.

The successful Nurse

Practitioner candidate will have a certificate of completion from

an approved program for Nurse Practitioners and must be eligible

for or certified by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing.

An acute care certification is required for this

position. Must be certified to work with all patient

population age groups.

At Geisinger, we’ve been

shaping the future of health for more than a century. Today, we

continue with the rapid growth of our Department of Neurosurgery,

which has a range of resources to provide unique clinical and

academic opportunities unlike any other

organization.

As part of our world-class

Geisinger Neuroscience Institute, we have innovative high-value

clinical protocols for acute inpatient and chronic outpatient

disease management, a 20-year clinical data warehouse (Geisinger

had one of the very first Epic systems), and a groundbreaking

population genomics program. Our team consists of 16 neurosurgeons

providing neurosurgical services in four hospitals, including

multiple hybrid operating rooms supporting comprehensive stroke

programming.

EducationMaster's Degree-Physician

Assistant (Required)

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 & 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.