Advanced Practice Practitioner, Pediatrics

Position Focus :

Yale Health is a unique healthcare entity created to serve the Yale University faculty, students, staff, and families. We are a clinician-led HMO and healthcare facility and are recognized as a Patient-Centered Medical Home. Our members are an amazingly diverse group of people from every state in the country and almost every country in the world. As Yale’s preferred healthcare provider for over 50 years, Yale Health offers members a patient-centered approach in an inclusive, culturally sensitive environment.

Located within the picturesque University campus, the Yale Health Building at 55 Lock Street houses nearly all medical services (primary care, specialty care, diagnostic imaging, urgent care, and pharmacy) under one roof. Our close ties with Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale Medicine specialists ensure continuity of care with outstanding clinicians in the Yale community.

Yale Health is an exceptional place to work. With generous University benefits, a beautiful environment, supportive leadership and friendly colleagues, job satisfaction is remarkably high. The pediatrics department prides itself on creating a supportive work environment emphasizing collaboration, professionalism, and lifelong learning.

In addition to seeing patients, our providers precept medical and APRN students and make hospital rounds on newborns. We do not attend deliveries or manage pediatric inpatients. Call is shared equally among 11 clinicians with phone call support provided by after-hour nurses. Weekend and holiday call consists of newborn rounding followed by seeing patients in the acute care facility until 3 pm.

Our EPIC EHR is fully integrated with the Yale New Haven Health Hospital system. As a result, all labs, radiology reports, ED encounters, hospital admissions, consultant notes, and communications exist under a single system. We now have an AI note-taking App, Abridge, which is integrated into EPIC, saving time on documentation. Additional support comes from our robust nurse triage system, an in-house lactation consultant and an embedded pediatric mental health program.

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Essential Duties

1. Examines patients to collect information about their physical Obtains, compiles, and records patient medical data, including health history, progress notes and results of physical examination. 3. Conducts complete physical examinations; provides medical evaluation and treatment to patients; develops treatments plans and monitors patient’s Advises patients on results of laboratory tests and recommends referrals to specialists or other medical facilities. 5. Collaborates with physicians, nurses, counselors and other medical staff to provide the best medical care. 6. Provides preventive health practices to patients to maintain and improve health and prevent illness. 7. Coordinates patient care including ordering of laboratory tests and radiographic studies. 8. Prescribes therapy or medication with physician approval. 9. May perform other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

Graduation from a Physician Assistant (PA) Training Program accredited by the American Medical Association Council on Medical Education or Master’s Degree from an accredited Advanced Nurse Practitioner program.

Required Skill / Ability 1 :

Demonstrated clinical skills with the ability to assess and manage both well and acute medical issues.

Required Skill / Ability 2 :

Superior interpersonal skills. Well-developed oral / written communication, organizational and teaching skills.

Required Skill / Ability 3 :

Comprehensive knowledge of state and federal regulations related to direct patient care, administering medications, and maintaining appropriate medical records.

Weekend Hours Required?

Occasional

Evening Hours Required?

Occasional

Drug Screen

Health Screening

Background Check Requirements

All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.

Health Care Worker

This role is a healthcare worker position. Healthcare workers (HCW) are defined as university employees working a healthcare setting who have the potential for direct or indirect exposure to patients, human research subjects or infectious materials including body substance, contaminated medical supplies, devices and equipment, surfaces, or air. HCW have specific health requirements that must be met prior to starting work, including MMR vaccine or immunity, varicella (chickenpox) vaccine or immunity, TB screening, COVID vaccine according to University policy, hepatitis B vaccine or immunity, and annual flu vaccination.

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