Advocate Health Care

Advanced Practice Nurse, APRN, or Physician Assistant, PA-C, Trauma Surgery, Libertyville - Full Time

Advocate Health Care$114K — $171K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active PA license and national board certification required.
  • Active DEA registration and Illinois Controlled Substance License (if applicable).
  • Bachelor's Degree in Physician Assistant is necessary.
  • BLS and/or ACLS certification required within 6 months of hire.
  • Strong clinical decision-making and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and manage trauma and acute surgical patients.
  • Assist in operating room as first assist.
  • Perform inpatient rounding and coordinate patient care.
  • Provide outpatient follow-up as needed.
  • Document patient care in electronic medical records accurately and timely.

Benefits

  • Generous Paid Time Off programs.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare expenses.
  • Retirement plans with employer match.
  • Educational assistance for professional development.
Full Job Description
Department:

04411 AMG Libertyville 890 Garfield Rd - Surgery: Trauma

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Trauma Surgery Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA)

Advocate Condell Medical Center | Level I Trauma Center

Join a collaborative and highly specialized Trauma and Acute Care Surgery team at Advocate Condell Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center serving a diverse and complex patient population. This position offers a dynamic blend of trauma, acute care surgery, general surgery, inpatient management, operating room experience, and ambulatory care.

Schedule
  • Four 10-hour shifts per week
  • Shift hours: 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 12:00 AM
  • Rotating evenings, weekends, and holidays
  • Approximately 1 in 4 weekends
  • One winter holiday and one summer holiday annually
  • Evening shifts rotate with the team and satisfy call coverage requirements
  • Schedule subject to change based on departmental and patient care needs


Practice Setting
  • Approximately 90% inpatient/hospital-based care/10% outpatient clinic responsibilities


Role Overview

The APP will provide comprehensive care across the continuum of trauma and surgical services, working closely with surgeons, residents, nurses, and multidisciplinary team members. Responsibilities include evaluating and managing trauma and acute surgical patients, participating in operative cases, performing inpatient rounding, coordinating patient care, and supporting outpatient follow-up as needed.

Important Candidate Consideration While this position is housed within the Trauma Surgery Department, candidates should be aware that the role extends beyond trauma care alone. The APP will have significant involvement in Acute

Care Surgery and General Surgery services, including:
  • Inpatient rounding and patient management
  • First assist and operating room participation
  • Surgical consults
  • Trauma and emergency general surgery care


This is an excellent opportunity for an NP or PA who enjoys a fast-paced environment, managing complex surgical patients, and working across multiple care settings while developing a broad surgical skill set.

Pay Range:
$54.90 - $82.35

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical responsibilities:

Assesses, diagnoses, and determines/alters treatment and management plans appropriate for age, acuity and clinical condition. This includes ordering, performing, and interpreting appropriate diagnostic studies and prescription of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions and therapies.

Manages conditions based on clinical indication, evidence-based care, cost effectiveness, and assessment of risks/benefits and alternatives.

Provides health promotion, disease prevention and disease management counseling and education of patients and families.

Manages patients as part of an interdisciplinary team and within scope of practice. Seeks physician or other healthcare team member consultation or referrals as appropriate. Escalates need for more emergent or specialized care when necessary.

Maintains accurate, complete, concise, and timely documentation in the electronic medical record. Substantiates and submits professional services consistent with compliant coding and billing practices.

Facilitates consistent, coordinated care and clear communication among all members of the healthcare team and/or health or community agencies.

Performs office or hospital procedures in accordance with specialty practice, competency and granted privileges (where applicable).

Other responsibilities:

Participates in quality, safety, and peer review initiatives/performance activities, organizational and/or departmental meetings and committees, peer review, and workgroups as necessary.

Participates in education and/or onboarding of new team members, students, and other health care professionals.

Seeks experiences to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and advance the profession within and outside of the organization.

Maintains standards of productivity, access, face-to-face time, and quality metrics to ensure optimal, safe and timely patient care delivery.

Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures. Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

License/Registration/Certification Required:

Active PA license(s) in state(s) of practice, AND

Active PA national board certification from National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.

Active DEA registration prior to hire, AND

If Illinois practice: active Illinois Controlled Substance License prior to hire, AND

Active BLS and/or ACLS, PALS, NRP as required by clinical practice prior to or within 6 months of hire

Education Required: Bachelor's Degree in Physician Assistant

Experience Required: No experience required

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

Demonstrated high level of clinical proficiency, and excellent decision-making skills.

Demonstrated ability to work independently and as an effective member of a health care team.

Demonstrated ability to adapt to evolving technology and proficiency with the electronic medical record.

Excellent communication skills. Ability to effectively collaborate with and establish/build relationships with others.

Proven organizational skills and ability to prioritize effectively.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING CONDITIONS

Must be able to stand, walk, bend, stoop, and twist continuously throughout the workday.

Must have functional speech, vision, touch, and hearing.

Must be able to:

Lift up to 50 lbs from floor to waist.

Lift up to 20 lbs over the head.

Carry up to 40 lbs a reasonable distance.

Operate all equipment necessary to perform the job.

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more - so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation
  • Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
  • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
  • Incentive pay for select positions
  • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance


Benefits and more
  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
  • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
  • Educational Assistance Program


Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health Care

Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system providing comprehensive health care services to the people of Illinois. The organization is the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois, with more than 500 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $1.6 billion in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2019.
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Size
75,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1976

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