Geisinger

Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Family Medicine newly increased compensation

Geisinger  •  Pennsylvania (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

Location:

Geisinger Primary Care Elysburg

Shift:

Days (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Worker Type:

Regular

Exemption Status:

YesGeisinger is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our Primary Care team in Elysburg, PA.

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.

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 Salarynewly 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
  • BenefitsGeisinger Benefits including liability, retirement, relocation and more!

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

Advanced Practitioner must have at least 5 years Primary Care experience and be able to see/treat 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.

Position Details:

Education:

Master's Degree-Nurse Practitioner (Required)

Experience:

Certification(s) and License(s):

Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing BodyDefault Issuing Body, Certified Nurse Practitioner - American Academy of Nurse PractitionersAmerican Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Licensed Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) - RN_State of PennsylvaniaRN_State of Pennsylvania

Skills:

Care Management Knowledge, Clinical Policies And Standards, Health Information Documentation, Patient Assessment And Care, Patient Safety, Patients Rights

OUR 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, 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.

Geisinger

About Geisinger

Geisinger is among the nation’s leading providers of value-based care, serving 1.2 million people in urban and rural communities across Pennsylvania. Founded in 1915 by philanthropist Abigail Geisinger, the nonprofit system generates $10 billion in annual revenues across 126 care sites — including 10 hospital campuses — and Geisinger Health Plan, with more than half a million members in commercial and government plans. Geisinger College of Health Sciences educates more than 5,000 medical professionals annually and conducts more than 1,400 clinical research studies.

With 26,000 employees, including 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger is among Pennsylvania’s largest employers with an estimated economic impact of $15 billion to the state’s economy. On March 31, 2024, Geisinger became the first member of Risant Health, a new nonprofit charitable organization created to expand and accelerate value-based care across the country.

For more information, visit geisinger.org/careers or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Danville, Pa.
Year Founded
1915
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