What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Family Medicine newly increased compensation position at Geisinger?
Living and working here, you’ll join one of our tight-knit communities, and experience a quality of life you can’t get elsewhere. You’ll have opportunities to better your life and make a difference. The Geisinger Lewisburg clinic is minutes from downtown!
At Geisinger, you have an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on your patients’ lives with:
- 20-minute appointments and forty-minute appointments for elderly patient population
- Physician/APP panel sharing model
- Daily huddles with care team members to review coordination of care
- Pharmacists to assist with patient education and medication management
- Care managers, health managers, clinic health associates and coding educators
- Centralized prescription refill team
- Nurse call center to assist with on-call workload (nursing home calls directed to Skilled Nursing Facility team)
- Epic EMR – universal throughout Geisinger
- Increased access to care by means of eVisits, patient portals, Geisinger’s ConvenientCare urgent care clinics
Why Advanced Practitioners join Geisinger:
- Competitive Salary – newly increased salary for 2025
- Recruitment incentives up to $20k (at specific clinics) – 30-month work obligation with department (not applicable for internal, lateral transfer)
- Geography stipend up to $7,800k (at specific clinics)
- Primary Care Architype model – stratifies onboarding, ramp-up, and practice into three tiers of increasing autonomy to ensure both new and experienced Advanced Practitioners get the support and professional satisfaction needed
- Advanced Practice Council – serves to support Geisinger Advanced Practitioners and Advanced Practitioner students
- Professional development – participate in our internal programs or utilize tuition reimbursement
- Teaching/Precepting opportunities – available via advanced practice preceptorship
- Continuing Medical Education – 10 days and $3,000 annually
- Benefits – Geisinger Benefits including liability, retirement, relocation and more!
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
Advanced Practitioner must be able to see all age ranges from Pediatric (birth) to Geriatric.
The successful Physician Assistant candidate will work under the responsibility and supervision of the physician and require completion of an ARC-PA (or predecessor organization) approved physician assistant program, current NCCPA certification or eligibility and Pennsylvania State licensure.
The successful Nurse Practitioner candidate will work in collaboration with the physician and have a certificate of completion from an approved program for Nurse Practitioners or be eligible to hold national certification that allows the NP to work with the patient populations and location settings associated with this position. Must be eligible for licensure as a nurse practitioner in the state of PA.
Salary : $3,000
