Job Description

Opportunity Information

Sutter Senior Care is seeking a full-time Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our geriatrics-focused primary care team serving complex Medicare patients.

Location: Burlingame, CA

Highlights:

• Collaborative, team-based care model working in dyad partnership with a geriatric physician
• Focus on comprehensive, relationship-based care for older adults with complex medical and social needs
  
• Blend of direct patient care (~60%) and care management (~40%), including panel management and care coordination
  
• Opportunity for in-clinic, home-based, and virtual care delivery
  
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with RNs, social workers, pharmacists, and specialists
  
• Mission-driven organization focused on improving quality of life for seniors
  

Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive geriatric assessments, diagnoses, and treatment plans
  
• Manage acute, chronic, and complex medical conditions, including multimorbidity
  
• Deliver preventive care, screenings, and medication management (including polypharmacy monitoring)
  
• Perform in-basket management, including patient communications, results review, and follow-up
  
• Support transitions of care (hospital/SNF follow-up)
  
• Lead proactive panel management and care gap closure efforts
  

Requirements

• Minimum 2-3 years of clinical experience preferred; geriatrics or complex care experience strongly preferred
• Current California State NP or PA License
• CAPA Controlled Substance Certification (for Physician Assistants only)
• Current Nurse Practitioner Furnishing Number (for Nurse Practitioners only)
• Nurse Practitioner furnishing number of NP's
• Active DEA registration
• Experience in primary care, geriatrics, or value-based care models

Preferred:

• Experience with high-risk senior populations or panel-based care
• Familiarity with Epic or other EHR systems
• Experience with care management, transitions of care, or home-based care delivery

We Offer / Join Us and Enjoy

• Relocation allowance
• Generous benefits package
• 401K, HSA

Medical Group Details

We are one of the largest multi-specialty medical groups in the country, made up of over 2,100 clinicians in 40+ specialties, in practices throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Our organization is nationally recognized for our excellence with multiple awards for quality of care, innovation and leadership.

Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group is affiliated with Palo Alto Medical Foundation, a not-for-profit health care organization, providing operational and administrative support, including the latest technology, allowing physicians to focus on delivering exceptional patient care.

Community Information

The city of Burlingame is 20 miles south of San Francisco in San Mateo County, juxtaposed between San Francisco and San Jose's Silicon Valley. The county has ideal weather with year-round temperatures averaging 68 degrees. San Mateo County is a very desirable suburban, family friendly Bay Area community, with excellent schools and activities. PAMF's Burlingame Center is located within walking distance of the Bay Area Rapid Transit line (BART) that connects most Bay Area cities, including San Francisco, and Caltrain providing commuter rail service along the San Francisco Peninsula.

Equal Opportunity Statement

*It is the policy of Sutter Health and its partners to provide equal employment for all qualified individuals; to prohibit discrimination in employment because of basis of race, color, creed, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, registered domestic partner status, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, national origin (including possession of a driver's license issued to individuals who did not present proof of authorized presence in the U.S.), age, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military or protected veteran status, political affiliation, pregnancy or perceived pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition, genetic information or any other characteristic made unlawful by local, state or federal law, ordinance or regulation. We promote the full realization of equal employment opportunities through a positive continuing program within each medical group, company, hospital, department, and service area. Equal employment opportunities apply to every aspect of Sutter's employment policies and practices.