Site: The General Hospital Corporation

Job Summary
This position is 40 hours, Weekday, Day Shift

The Advanced Practice Provider delivers operational and professional management for a small to medium-sized team of Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) and allied health professionals. This role balances hands-on patient care with leadership responsibilities, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality delivery of specialized imaging and stress-testing services within the Nuclear Cardiology Molecular Imaging department.

Does This Position Provide Direct Patient Care? Yes

Essential Functions:
Leadership and Staff Management:
• Provides direct management and accountability for a team of APPs and/or allied health professionals.
• Recruits, hires, onboards, orients, and mentors APP staff.
• Conducts performance evaluations, coaching, and professional development planning.
• Works closely with APP Lead to develop staffing schedules to support clinical volumes and operational needs.

Clinical Practice:
• Provides patient care oversight as a Nurse Practitioner in Nuclear Cardiology and Molecular Imaging.
• Oversees pre-procedure evaluations, risk stratification, and patient education for nuclear stress testing, PET/CT, PET/MR, and SPECT imaging.
• Collaborates with attending physicians on clinical decision-making, documentation, and care coordination.
• Gains clinical competency in radiopharmaceuticals, stress agents, and imaging-related protocols.

Quality, Safety, and Compliance:
• Supports quality assurance and continuous quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensures adherence to institutional policies, regulatory standards, and patient safety practices.
• Oversees compliance with documentation and APP billing requirements.
• Participates in incident reviews, root-cause analyses, and corrective action planning.

Education and Professional Development:
• Ensures ongoing education, competency validation, and clinical training for APP staff.
• Supports teaching and mentorship of trainees and new hires.
• Encourages continuing education and specialty certification.

Collaboration and Communication:
• Acts as a liaison between APPs, physicians, technologists, nursing, operations, and leadership.
• Collaborates to optimize workflow efficiency, patient throughput, and care coordination.
• Contributes to service line planning and operational initiatives.

The Ideal Candidate will have:
• Prior APP Management experience, strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership or supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of quality, safety, and regulatory standards in procedural or imaging environments.
• Experience with nuclear medicine or molecular imaging workflows.
• Familiarity with APP billing and compliance requirements.

Summary
Provides direct management to typically a small to medium-sized team of advanced practice providers or other allied health professionals while continuing to spend the majority of time providing direct patient care as a Physician Assistant.

Does this position require Patient Care? Yes

Essential Functions
-Performs all essential functions of a Physician Assistant, providing direct patient care.
-Directly oversees and is accountable for the performance of a team of APPs and/or other direct reports.
-Hires, performs, manages, and completes performance appraisals for a team of APPs and/or other direct reports.
-Orients, trains, and schedules staff.
-Assists with quality assurance programs as needed to help implement quality improvement efforts.
-Ensures continuing education and teaching for APPs.
-Acts as liaison between the hospital, physician and nursing staffs, and other APPs.
-Ensures APPs are following proper billing compliance rules and methodology.

Qualifications

Education
Master's Degree Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner required

Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree?
No

Licenses and Credentials

- Registered Nurse [RN - MA License]

- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse [APRN] [MA License] or

- Physician Assistant [MA License]

Experience
Experience as a licensed Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner 5-7 years required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strong clinical knowledge as a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner.
- Strong managerial presence and ability to provide & direct feedback and guidance to staff.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Results-oriented and exhibits a strong attention to detail.

Additional Job Details (if applicable)

Remote Type

Onsite

Work Location

55 Fruit Street

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Employee Type

Regular

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Pay Range
$130,249.60 - $190,278.40/Annual

Grade
8

At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. Our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive, and any offer extended will take into account your skills, relevant experience if applicable, education, certifications and other essential factors. The base pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications; however, it does not encompass all elements contributing to your total compensation package. In addition to competitive base pay, we offer comprehensive benefits, career advancement opportunities, differentials, premiums and bonuses as applicable and recognition programs designed to celebrate your contributions and support your professional growth. We invite you to apply, and our Talent Acquisition team will provide an overview of your potential compensation and benefits package.

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