Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA/APP) Neurocritical care NNICU/NIMU

Build your neurocritical care career where advanced clinical judgment, procedural skill, and compassionate patient advocacy directly influence outcomes for patients with complex neurological and neurosurgical conditions.

Join a highly collaborative APP team caring for patients across the Nerancy Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit and Neuro Intermediate Care Unit. This role offers continuity across the critical care journey, close partnership with attending physicians and residents, and an individualized path toward clinical autonomy.

The position follows a rotating schedule consisting of three 12-hour shifts per week, with one additional 12-hour shift required each month. Scheduling includes day shifts, night shifts, evening shifts (1:00 p.m. to midnight), and required weekend and holiday coverage.The team offers meaningful scheduling flexibility, including the ability to concentrate shifts around nights, weekends, or other preferred patterns when operationally feasible.

The Role

As an Advanced Practice Provider in the NNICU and NIMU, you will manage primarily adult patients with high-acuity neurological and neurosurgical needs. The patient population includes individuals experiencing stroke, neurological injury, post-TNK care, complex spine surgery, elective neurosurgery, and conditions requiring ICU-level management.

By working across both units, you can follow patients through multiple phases of hospitalization, strengthening continuity, clinical ownership, and relationships with patients and families.

Your practice will include:

• Assessing and managing complex neurocritical care patients in collaboration with attending physicians, neurology and neurosurgery residents, nursing professionals, and multidisciplinary critical care teams
• Developing evidence-based plans of care and responding to rapidly changing clinical conditions
• Building proficiency and autonomy in critical care procedures
• Providing clear, compassionate communication to patients and families navigating traumatic diagnoses, neurological injuries, and chronic pain
• Advocating for holistic, family-centered care
• Contributing to the education and orientation of new providers and rotating residents as your expertise develops
• Participating actively in a supportive, team-oriented clinical environment

Critical care experience is strongly preferred, particularly within neurocritical care, Neuro ICU, MICU, or another ICU environment. New graduate APPs may also be considered and supported through an extended orientation. Onboarding is individualized, typically lasting approximately six months for new graduates and three months for experienced providers, with a strong focus on clinical knowledge, procedural development, feedback, and progressive independence.

Advanced Practice Provider Scope of Practice:

Clinical

• Provides expert evidence-based, top-of-scope care in their clinical practice
• Acts as part of a specialty team, collaborating with other clinicians as appropriate
• Provides health education to patients
• Maintains accurate, timely, and thorough documentation
• Ensures compliance with institutional and regulatory standards

Leadership

• Supports development of best practices and protocols in specialty
• Serves on committees and workgroups to enhance patient care
• Provides education to learners in the clinical space
• Mentors new team members

Administration

• Contributes to clinical quality improvement work
• Participates in professional governance through the APP Council
• Attends team development meetings at local and departmental levels

Professional

• Adheres to ASPIRE values in all professional interactions
• Maintains appropriate licenses, certifications, and specialty training competencies
• Participates in local, state, and national professional organizations

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Background checks and pre-employment health screenings will be conducted on all new hires prior to employment. All safety-sensitive positions with direct patient interaction also require a drug screen.

Why UVA Health

UVA Health offers the clinical depth of a leading public academic health system combined with a culture centered on education, research, collaboration, and compassionate care. At University Medical Center, you will practice in a Level I Trauma Center and academic environment where clinicians, faculty, residents, and learners work together to advance medicine.

This opportunity is especially compelling for APPs seeking sophisticated neurocritical care experience:

• Care for some of the region’s most acute and challenging neurological cases
• Learn alongside experienced neurocritical care physicians invested in teaching and professional development
• Collaborate closely with neurology and neurosurgery residents in a continuous learning environment
• Strengthen advanced assessment, critical care, and procedural capabilities through structured onboarding
• Develop toward clinical autonomy while maintaining access to experienced colleagues and mentors
• Join a highly collaborative APP team with strong peer relationships
• Follow patients between the NNICU and NIMU, supporting continuity throughout their care
• Work within a Magnet-recognized organization committed to nursing excellence, innovation, and interdisciplinary care

This is an environment that values curiosity, adaptability, accountability, and the willingness to move beyond familiar clinical boundaries. Providers who ask thoughtful questions, seek feedback, and take ownership of their development can build a meaningful long-term practice here.

Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.

Why People Love Living in Charlottesville

Located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville pairs natural beauty and year-round outdoor recreation with the restaurants, arts, music, history, and cultural experiences of a vibrant university community. Healthcare professionals and families can enjoy a welcoming smaller-city setting with convenient access to hiking, scenic drives, local vineyards, community events, and destinations throughout Central Virginia. It is a place where an ambitious clinical career can coexist with connection, recreation, and life beyond the hospital.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Education: Graduate of an accredited graduate school of nursing or physician assistant program with a master’s degree.

Experience: Department and unit specific.

Licensure: License or license eligible as an Advance Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner, and Physician Associate) as set forth by the state of Virginia. If Nurse Practitioner, license to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia is required. Must demonstrate and maintain all credentialing and licensing requirements of UVA Health System, the Virginia Board of Medicine or the Virginia Board of Nursing, and appropriate certifying bodies. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) required. Current PALS/NRP, as required, specific to position. Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) as required, specific to position.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Job requires standing for prolonged periods, frequently bending/stooping, reaching (overhead, extensive, and repetitive); Repetitive motion: computer keyboard. Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; Attention to detail and ability to write legibly; Ability to lift/push/pull 50 - 100lbs. May be exposed to noise, radiation, radioactive materials, blood/body fluids and infectious disease.

The pay range for this role is $129,323.00 - $185,265.60 annually. Individual compensation will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications, previous work experience, and/or education.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Retirement Savings
• Long-term and Short-term Disability
• Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Certification and Education Support

UVA Health is a world-class Magnet Recognized academic medical center and health system with a level 1 trauma center. 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” guide rates UVA Health University Medical Center as “High Performing” in 5 adult specialties and 14 conditions/procedures. We are one of 70 National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers. UVA Health Children’s is named by 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report as the best children's hospital in Virginia with 9 specialties ranked among the best in the nation. Our footprint also encompasses 3 community hospitals and an integrated network of primary and specialty care clinics throughout Charlottesville, Culpeper, Northern Virginia, and beyond.

The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Learn more about UVA’s commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.