Location Detail: 85 Jefferson Street Hartford (10068)
Shift Detail: Days, Nights, Weekdays, Weekends, Holidays depending on service line needs
Outstanding opportunity to join a national leader in Neurosurgery. The Ayer Neuroscience Institute at Hartford HealthCare has a new opportunity available for a Per Diem Neurosurgery Physician Assistant/APRN to join our Advanced Practice team at Hartford Hospital located in Hartford, CT.
Practice autonomously, but collaboratively, with a team of attending neurosurgeons and APPs providing advanced specialized care to neurosurgical patients including open spine, MIS spine and deformity, intracranial cases, neurovascular, peripheral nerve, neurotrauma, and neuro-interventional radiological cases.
Enjoy a robust onboarding experience with an established, supportive process with frequent opportunities for training and education modalities at HHC’s Center for Education, Simulation and Innovation (CESI).
This role will assist in providing coverage on the inpatient side of neurosurgery including weekdays (day & night shifts), weekends (day & night shifts), and/or holidays to contribute to maintaining 24/7 service coverage.
Job details:
· Managing neurosurgical brain and spine patients on the floor, stepdown, and ICU settings.
· Intake H&Ps, progress notes, consultations, pre- and post-operative care, and discharges.
· Providing neurosurgical consultations in the hospital and in the emergency department.
· Performing bedside procedures: external ventricular drains, ICP monitors, lumbar drains, shunt taps.
· First assisting the attending neurosurgeon in the operating room in brain and spine surgeries.
· Per diem coverage of weekdays, weeknights, weekend days, weekend nights, and holidays based on neurosurgery service line coverage needs.
About the Ayer Neuroscience Institute:
The Ayer Neuroscience Institute at Hartford HealthCare is a rapidly expanding Institute with a focus on comprehensive patient care, academics, and research. The Institute enjoys the resources of a system committed to excellence in patient quality and experience and an impressive staff of world class Neuroscience leaders.
About Hartford HealthCare (HHC):
HHC employs more than 2,500 providers in over 400 practice locations throughout Connecticut with 7 acute care hospitals, one of the largest academic and surgical hospitals in the northeast, thriving community teaching hospitals, and one of the largest, physician-led, multi-specialty medical groups in New England.
We support your development and wellbeing through the respected Hartford HealthCare’s Office of Advanced Practice - an internal organization committed to the growth and development of our Advanced Practitioners, and the groundbreaking Office of Provider Wellness
All of this means MORE OPPORTUNITY to propel your career to new heights within a deeply embedded culture of inclusion, innovation, and focus on the highest quality of care. We are a collegial group of teachers, researchers, innovators, and, most of all, caregivers.
Location:
Within an hour from New York City and two hours of Boston, Connecticut offers you and your family an exceptional lifestyle. Enjoy the finest schools in the nation, four beautiful seasons of recreational activities, and options to live at the shore, in leafy suburbs, or in vibrant urban areas.
Qualifications
A minimum of 1 year of experience in a surgical subspeciality is strongly preferred.
BE/BC NCCPA certified and CT licensed Physician Assistant or APRN with First Assist.
This role will assist in providing 24/7 coverage on the inpatient side of neurosurgery including weekdays (day & night shifts), weekends (day & night shifts), and/or holidays on a per diem basis based on neurosurgery service line needs.