PRN Child Protection Center - Advanced Practitioner - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

UnityPoint Clinic and St. Luke’s Hospital are actively recruiting for a Child Protection Center PRN Advanced Practitioner to join our team in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Choose a career that matters at UnityPoint Health. At UnityPoint Health, we believe that our patient-centered vision and physician-driven philosophy, along with our one team approach, ensures every patient knows just how much they matter to this world. Commitment to our team has earned us recognition as a Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare 2022 by Becker’s Healthcare and among America’s Best Employers By State in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Come be an essential part of our core purpose—to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.  At UnityPoint Health, you matter.

UnityPoint Clinic is a physician-led, nonprofit health care organization offering comprehensive services in primary care, walk-in care and specialty care. The clinical teams at the area’s clinics are improving outcomes, lowering the number of hospital readmissions and reducing avoidable costs associated with treating chronic conditions. The UnityPoint Clinic team is known for excellence and quality patient care putting patients at the center of their care to provide the best level of health and well-being.

UnityPoint Health – Cedar Rapids serves a seven-county area surrounding Cedar Rapids. St. Luke’s Hospital is the only hospital in Cedar Rapids designated as a Top 50 Heart Hospital six times, has been named a top 50 Hospital in the Nation by Healthgrades, named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by IBM Watson Health eight times and also has been honored six times as Becker’s Hospital Review ‘100 Great Hospitals in America’. St. Luke’s is also a Magnet hospital for nursing excellence.

The Child Protection Center is a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic that provides medical examinations, forensic interviews, and advocacy services to suspected victims of child abuse. It is the role of the CPC Medical Provider to conduct medical examinations for suspected victims of child abuse. The Medical Provider has overall responsibility for ensuring medical services provided through the CPC are patient focused, clinically appropriate, operationally efficient and achieve effective patient outcomes.

The Center represents a community-wide effort to provide:

• Centralized access and referral to a system of community services for abused children and their families.

• Coordination of high quality, reliable, consistent interviews and medical exams by specially trained interviewers and physicians

• Efforts toward identification, treatment, and prevention of child abuse

Position overview:

• PRN position

• Fully integrated system with clinics and hospitals on EPIC EMR to improve care coordination

• PRN position; Hours vary

• Clinic Hours: Monday – Friday 8am-4:30pm

• Call required – 1:4 shared; Calls from ERs, supporting 30 counties in Iowa

• Requires ER - Exam

• Conducts high quality medical evaluations for alleged victims of child abuse.

• Promptly completes documentation to assure an accurate legal record of the patient’s care.

• Fosters positive relationships with CPC patients and family members, CPC team members, other hospital employees and MDT partners.

• Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

• Board Certified

• Prefer five (5) years previous child abuse and pediatric experience.

• Hold an unrestricted medical license in the state of Iowa

• Hold current and unrestricted state and federal authority to prescribe and administer medications as necessary or appropriate to the Advanced Practitioners field of practice

• Eligible to work in the United States

We offer

• Hourly pay

• A  culture  guided by uncompromising values and unwavering belief in doing what’s right for the people we serve.

Community Details

Cedar Rapids

Vibrant, unique and industrious, Cedar Rapids is one of Iowa’s centers of excellence for arts and culture and an economic hub of the state’s Eastern region. As the second-largest city in the state, “The City of Five Seasons” offers its residents a wide variety of amenities, attractions and career opportunities on par with its nearby, out-of-state counterparts (Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis) without the high cost of living, hustle and bustle.  Learn more  about Cedar Rapids and why it offers one of the best places to live, work and play in the Midwest.