Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner - Non-Surg Assist Cardiothoracic Surgery

About the job

Providence is hiring a physician assistant or nurse practitioner for Providence Heart & Lung at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, in a full-time cardiothoracic surgical non-assist role. The person hired joins a group of cardiothoracic professionals.

Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital, with 644 beds and more than 900 medical staff members, serves an area of around 1.5 million people. It offers minimally invasive cardiac surgery, robotic surgery and diagnostic technologies, and it has a research department, residency programs and centers that specialize in orthopedics, women's health and the neurosciences.

What you need

• Physician assistant or nurse practitioner (the job is open to either profession)

Preferred

• At least two years of related experience, ideally 2 to 3 years of patient care management experience in cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery or critical care
• Earlier experience as an acute care registered nurse in either discipline may be substituted
• Recent AGACNP-BC certification can take the place of experience

Schedule

• Full-time, starting with 5 shifts of 8 hours (the future schedule is still to be determined)
• No evenings, weekends or major holidays

Benefits

• A signing bonus and relocation assistance
• Health, vision, dental and retirement benefits
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligibility, as Providence is a non-profit organization
• Productivity or quality/service incentives, call pay and extra-shift incentives may be part of the pay, where they apply
• CME benefits may be available