Job Description:
When you join us, you'll become a part of a nationally recognized health system dedicated to our mission of "helping people live the healthiest lives possible."
About this Role
As an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) in Pediatric Heart Failure/Transplant, you will work with a team of healthcare professionals committed to care for pediatric patients with heart transplants, heart failure, and heart mechanical circulatory support devices. This APP will work throughout Primary Children's Hospital as a specialist in pre- and post-operative cardiovascular care. This position shares responsibilities with other highly skilled and experienced APPs to provide exceptional in- and out-patient care to heart transplant candidates/recipients. Primary responsibilities will include providing inpatient and outpatient heart failure and transplant care services, prepping patients for heart transplant surgery, placing orders, rounding in the cardiac care unit, and providing heart failure and heart transplant consultation across other interdisciplinary teams. This APP will not surgically assist in the operating room.
Our team is involved in several national data registries and participates as a key study center for local and nationally led research. We are a highly functioning multidisciplinary team, giving you the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from exceptional surgeons, cardiologists, critical care intensivists, nursing staff, allied health professionals, and other APPs within the Heart Center.
Salaried position with extra compensation for taking shared call with low utilization
Benefits Eligible: Yes, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including 401K, Medical/Dental/Vision benefits, CME and professional licensing allowance with 1 week paid time off for conferences. This position is also eligible for relocation assistance.
Shift Details: Budgeted for 40 hours per week, variable shifts. The APP will typically work three twelve-hour daytime shifts per week coupled with a 4 hour weekly or 8 hour biweekly block, which will include rotating weekends and some holidays.
Call Details: Call is limited to evenings/nights only and includes heart organ offer call, and will be shared coverage between the APPs.
Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) are accountable for the provision of patient care at the top of licensure, within their scope of practice. Licensed, credentialed and privileged to perform such duties as:
Primarily manage inpatient and outpatient pediatric heart failure/transplant patients ages 0-18 including assessment, diagnosis, medication management, treatment and timely documentation.
Daily rounding and placing orders on inpatients with cardiologists and APP team.
Perform cardiology consultations, outpatient visits, and patient family phone calls.
Timely respond to acute patient changes, support staff needs, and exam results.
Educate patient, patient's family, clinical staff, and others regarding all aspects of care.
Consult and coordinate with other healthcare providers.
Continually participate in weekly learning opportunities and committees to gain optimal career development and achieve best patient care and outcomes.
Advanced Practice Providers may also participate in research, utilize evidence-based practice to improve quality patient care, protocol development, care process model development, and best practice standards for assigned patient population throughout our organization.
What you'll bring:
Previous experience with pediatric patients is highly valued, particularly experience caring for chronic illness, medically complex cases, inpatient, and/or cardiovascular patients.
Utah license as a Physician Assistant (PA) or an Advance Practice Registered Nurse (APRN).
Board Certification as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
Utah State Controlled Substance License
Federal DEA Certificate II through V
PALS and BLS Certification for Healthcare Providers
About our Heart Center
-Located in the beautiful foothills overlooking Salt Lake Valley, Primary Children's Hospital is a part of Intermountain Health, and the pediatric specialty teaching hospital for the University of Utah School of Medicine.
-With more than 10 specialty service lines at Primary Children's, the center serves as the only provider of comprehensive care to children and adults with congenital heart disease within the Intermountain footprint.
-We are a nationally recognized Heart Center program by U.S. News and World Report.
-Within Primary Children's Heart Center, there are more than 60+ highly skilled University of Utah physicians who work to treat the most complex congenital heart conditions, and are supported by more than 400 caregivers, including medical assistants, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, cardiac sonographers, nurses, perfusionists, respiratory therapists, social workers, genetic counselors, child life specialists, and more.
About Intermountain Health
Intermountain Health (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/) ?is a model health system by providing extraordinary care and superior service at an affordable cost. We are an integrated not-for-profit system of 33 hospitals, 400 clinics, and a medical group with more than 5,000 employed physicians and advanced practice providers across six states in the mountain west.?
Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us. Learn more about our Mission, Vision, and Values at: About Intermountain! (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/about)
Intermountain Health was recently recognized by the American Medical Association's Joy in Medicine (https://www.ama-assn.org/member-benefits/events/ama-joy-medicine-health-system-recognition-program-honorees-reveal) award for our commitment to physician wellbeing. We also received the Lorna Breen Wellbeing First Champion award.
What does it mean to be a part of Intermountain Health?
It means joining the Power of We, building an environment where providers and caregivers can deliver the best in healthcare. Realizing each caregiver and volunteer is vital to providing care to our patients, because WE can only achieve the extraordinary together. Committed to the best in research and most advanced technology, the results are better clinical patient outcomes.
Location:
Intermountain Health Primary Childrens Hospital
Work City:
Salt Lake City
Work State:
Utah
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$62.44 - $96.34
We care about your well-being - mind, body, and spirit - which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/benefits) .
Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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