Job Description

If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina and South Carolina. We invite experienced Cardiology APPs to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds, and progressive visionaries together at Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute.

Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute’s Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant program is seeking a full-time advanced practice provider (APP) to join our growing team at Atrium Health Charlotte (Main Campus).

Responsibilities: 

• This position is occupied by board certified acute care nurse practitioners and/or physician assistants specifically trained and proficient in providing cardiac services under the direct supervision of Heart Failure/Transplant Cardiologists.
• The APP in this position will function at the top of their license in the inpatient hospital and outpatient clinic-based setting in collaboration with a supervising physician and other members of a multidisciplinary team.
• Responsible for a rotation of services including inpatient daily rounds, consultations, and clinic-based appointments.
• The APP, working alongside the MD, will be responsible for evaluating, stabilizing, and treating patients with advanced heart failure both pre-mechanical circulatory support (MCS) and/or heart transplantation, peri-operatively, and post surgically.
• The position also includes direct involvement in data collection and quality improvement (QI).
• Multidisciplinary team comprised of physicians, APPs, RN coordinators, social workers, clinical pharmacists, dietitians, financial coordinators and various other support staff. An onsite palliative care clinic is also available.   
• Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute offers greater than 30 years of heart transplant experience and is the region’s only heart transplant center, with outcomes that rank among the best in the nation.
• Advanced treatment options include LVADs and the total artificial heart; additional surgical and minimally invasive options including bypass surgery, heart valve surgery and implantable heart devices for both temporary and long-term support.

• APP will work closely with a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive patient care in various clinical settings including inpatient, outpatient, and virtual care.
• Schedule consists primarily of four 10-hour day shifts per week (7am-5pm) rotating between inpatient and outpatient care. Weekend rotation (7am-12pm) and some outpatient call required.

Position Requirements:

• Nurse Practitioner: Master’s Degree or Doctorate of Nursing Practice required. License to practice as a Registered Nurse required. Certification in practice from a nationally recognized certifying body required. ACNP or AGACNP certification required based on population served, however will consider experienced FNP if willing to return to school to obtain acute care certification.
• Physician Assistant: Graduate from an accredited Physician Assistant program required; Master’s Degree preferred. Certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants preferred.
• Current prescriptive privileges and DEA license required. BLS and ACLS for Healthcare Provider from AHA required with expiration date greater than 90 days from date of beginning practice.
• Current NC Licensure or ability to obtain

Ideal Candidate Qualities:

• Cardiology experience required; prior MCS, heart transplantation experience preferred.
• Highly motivated with superb communication and organizational skills with a commitment to provide quality care to the patients we serve in the Greater Charlotte community
• Critical thinking, interpersonal skills, and the ability to prioritize and concentrate in a fast paced, high acuity work environment.

About SHVI:

Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute is one of the Southeast's largest cardiac and vascular programs providing the highest quality care available to patient with cardiovascular disease throughout North and South Carolina. Sanger employs more than 110 physicians in a network of more than 25 locations to provide the highest quality care available to patient with cardiovascular disease. Sanger has more than 50 years of experience in providing comprehensive acute and chronic cardiovascular services, including the region's only heart transplant center and pediatric heart surgery program.