Physician Assistant or Nurse PractitionerNeurosurgery

Job Title : Physician Assistant or Nurse

Practitioner Neurosurgery

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 : 07 / 29 / 2025

Job ID : R-82090

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.

EducationBachelor's Degree-Physician Assistant

(Required), Master's Degree-Physician Assistant

(Preferred)

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.