Manager Advanced Practice - Cardiac Intensive Care Unit -Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

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Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC) has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to lead the Advanced Practice Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Team. As the Manager you will draw on your experience to coach and mentor a team of 7 APPs. Cardiology is a thriving practice at PPMC, and your expertise and leadership will continue to help drive growth, elevate patient care and further solidify PPMC as a leader in cardiovascular health.

PPMC has been named one the top 50 cardiovascular hospitals in the US! This service is a tertiary referral center for cardiogenic shock, acute coronary syndrome, and pulmonary embolism from much of South Jersey and Pennsylvania. 

As APP Manager, you will have direct responsibility for the APPs across the continuum and provide daily clinical and operational management for the APPs in support of institutional and departmental missions. Additional responsibilities include workforce planning, recruitment and retention, performance management, human resources needs, quality and operations of the team, budget planning and rectification. This role is split 50/50 between clinical and administrative.

In this key leadership role, you will function under the guidelines as designed by the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center medical staff guidelines and be credentialed through that body. You will be held accountable through a formal job description, the delineation of privileges and through the agreement with your collaborating physician who has initiated a Collaborative Practice Agreement. All clinical work hours and associated requirements will be defined and managed under the direction of the collaborating physician/division designee within the Human Resource guidelines.

Requirements:

• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Masters prepared Physician Assistant
• Licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of PA
• 3 - 5 years of Cardiology/ICU experience.
• 2-4 years of progressive leadership/management experience

Additional information:

• High level of clinical knowledge regarding all aspects of the care of the cardiology patient
• Ability to mentor, manage, and lead staff to provide effective and compliant care and services
• Effective communicator with the ability to transfer knowledge (orally and in writing), train and remediate performance issues
• Effective at leading change and leading teams

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

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