Advocate Health Care

Child Advocacy Center APP-Full-time-NP/PA

Advocate Health Care$99K — $148K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree or Doctorate of Nursing Practice required
  • Active Registered Nurse license required
  • Board certification in Nurse Practitioner specialty preferred (e.g., ACNP, AGACNP, AGNP, PNP, PNP-AC)
  • Experience in pediatric care or child advocacy is highly beneficial
  • Strong communication skills in English, both spoken and written

Responsibilities

  • Perform initial and ongoing medical history and physical examinations
  • Document all patient findings and care plans accurately
  • Conduct minor office-based medical and surgical procedures
  • Write prescriptions and administer medications as necessary
  • Order and interpret laboratory and radiology tests
  • Determine and implement treatment plans for patients
  • Advocate for patients and contribute to clinical meetings and policy development

Benefits

  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Comprehensive health and welfare benefits including medical, dental, and vision
  • Family-friendly benefits such as paid parental leave and adoption assistance
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match
  • Educational assistance programs for career development
Full Job Description
Department:

01450 GCMG Child Protection: 901 East Blvd - Pediatrics: General

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Monday-Friday, locations will vary

Pay Range:
$47.50 - $71.25

Essential Functions

  • Performs initial and periodic medical history, physical examinations, and daily assessments.
  • Records findings of examinations, assessments and plan of care.
  • Performs minor office-based medical and/or surgical procedures.
  • Writes appropriate prescriptions and administers medications.
  • Orders and interprets daily laboratory and radiology examinations.
  • Determines treatment plan for patient.
  • Documents all patient encounters, records observations, interventions, and actions in a medically appropriate manner on the patient's medical record.
  • Acts as a patient advocate for the population served.
  • Attends, participates and contributes to group/practice meetings and development of policies and procedures when requested.


Job Highlights

Office details: Outpatient

Office hours: 8:30am-5pm Monday-Friday

Location: Jeff Gordon Child Advocacy Center and Butterfly House

Schedule hours: 32 hours patient facing and 8 hours of admin time.

Clinician group: 3 Physicians and 3 APPs

Patient Load: 2-4 patients/families daily

NO Call coverage

Opportunity!

Atrium Health Levine Children's Advocacy Centers (CAC) are places that advocate for abused children in our community. With a team of RN's, Medical Providers, a victim advocates, forensic interviewers and office personnel, the CAC team works closely with law enforcement, mental health, the District Attorney's office, and Child Protective Services to make sure abused children in our community have a voice.

Physical Requirements
Work requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, bending, stooping, pushing and pulling. Must be able to lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies. Must speak English fluently and in understandable terms. Must possess intact sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and finger dexterity. Must have the ability to react and perform in stressful situations

Education, Experience and Certifications.
Work requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, bending, stooping, pushing and pulling. Must be able to lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies. Must speak English fluently and in understandable terms. Must possess intact sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and finger dexterity. Must have the ability to react and perform in stressful situations. Schedule primarily composed of weekday shifts, less than or equal to 200 hours of weekend and/or night coverage.

Nurse Practitioner

Master's Degree or Doctorate of Nursing Practice required. License to practice as a Registered Nurse required. Certification in the area of practice from a nationally recognized certifying body required. ACNP, AGACNP, AGNP, PNP, or PNP-AC board certification preferred based population served.

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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