Surgery - General Nurse Practitioner

Jefferson Abington CT Surgery is looking for a Lead Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) who will provide supervision and management of advanced practice clinicians (APCs) in a distinct clinical area.

The Lead APC will provide clinical direction and education, work closely with operational and physician leaders, and have oversight of hiring, termination, and professional growth and development of their APCs in their distinct clinical area. They will have clinical expertise in their practice area and leadership experience or interest in leadership. The Lead APC will have 3+ years of clinical experience as a Master s prepared APC and must supervise a minimum of 3 APCs. They will spend 80% of their time performing clinical duties and 20% of their time performing administrative duties.

The essential functions of a Lead APC fall into four categories:

• Patient care
• Clinical Oversight and Leadership
• Administration
• Compliance

Patient Care • Functions under the APC job description in the respective department of hire

Clinical Oversight and Leadership:

• Provides supervision and management of advanced practice clinicians (APCs) in a distinct clinical service line.
• Conduct regularly scheduled meetings with the staff APPs.
• Ensure clinical competency and adherence to policy through practice analysis and case review of APCs.
• Orient new staff APCs.
• Provide education to staff APCs.
• Participate as a representative in hospital-wide committees.
• Provides a consistent line of communication and support between the APC team/Manager/Director and department leadership to ensure the group is organized and informed. This includes recruitment, retention, onboarding/orientation, performance management, and professional development
• Ensures all operational mandates and initiatives are completed.
• Shows initiative and seeks out opportunities for improvement.
• Participates in and completes relevant leadership and development training as assigned
• Administration:
• Review and participate in financial planning and issues for the service.
• Participate in hiring, evaluating, coaching, mentoring, and disciplining staff APCs.
• Investigate and resolve APC/departmental operational issues.
• Coordinate quality improvement/process improvement programs.
• Provide 24-hour administrator on-call coverage for the service.
• Coordinate the scheduling of the APCs to ensure appropriate coverage and approve CME Reimbursement
• Other duties as assigned.

Compliance

• The Lead APC functions in an expanded role and ensures compliance with State Board(s) of Medicine and Nursing, complies with APC practice guidelines, hospital bylaws, and physician supervising/delegation agreements per state and hospital applicable regulatory requirements and specialty scope of practice. The APC is granted privileges by Jefferson Health medical staff at respective location(s), including specific clinical responsibilities and procedures, reviewed as per regulatory/organizational requirements.
• Maintain and demonstrate competencies for designated privileges requested as required for FPPE and ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) and outcomes.
• Help to facilitate, monitor and maintain APC written/collaborative agreements to ensure/promote compliance
• Participate, support, and lead quality, compliance, performance, utilization, productivity, and benchmarking initiatives to advance team care delivery and to practice to the full extent of licensure.
• Addresses raised concerns regarding clinical performance and/or professional practice and initiates appropriate performance improvement plan (PIP) as appropriate in collaboration with Human Resource Business Partner (HRBP)
• Participate in regional and national discussions that affect APC practice.
• Work with hospital operations regarding funding/billing/reimbursement models.
• Have an awareness of the legislative and health policy issues affecting advanced practice.

Additional Attributes:

• Able to balance administrative and clinical services.
• Recognize and respect cultural differences among co-workers and patients and respond appropriately.
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to build trust, and create an environment of shared accountability, create and promote the role of teams.
• Self-motivated and able to anticipate potential obstacles, proactive at troubleshooting, and pursues amenable resolution.
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, excellent organizational skills, and effective written and oral communication skills.
• Highly proactive, independent, and able to demonstrate leadership capabilities in a complex multidisciplinary arena.
• Responsive and committed to service excellence.
• Participates in conflict resolution in a positive professional manner

Covid Vaccination is a requirement for employment at Jefferson for employees working at Jefferson s clinical entities or at the University. If you are not currently vaccinated you will be required to receive the vaccination prior to hire date if you are offered employment, unless you request and receive an approved medical or religious exemption from Jefferson.

About Jefferson

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University , home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health , nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.