Job Title: Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Family Medicine newly increased compensation
Location: Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Job Category: Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Practice
Schedule: Days
Work Type: Full time
Department: Community Medicine Advanced Practitioners Division
Date Posted: 05/24/2024
Job ID: R-53588

Job Summary

Geisinger is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our Primary Care team at the Medical Clinic Buckhorn in Bloomsburg, PA. This site qualifies for a $7,800k geography stipend and $20k recruitment incentive.

Job Duties

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 Medical Clinic Buckhorn is 8 miles from Bloomsburg University and minutes from Geisinger Medical Center, our main campus!

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.

Education

Master's Degree-Physician Assistant (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s)

Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing Body; Certified Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)

Our Purpose & Values

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.