Advanced Practice Provider Manager (NP/PA) - Pre-Anesthesia

Stanford Health Care Livermore, CA 94550, US

$106.01 - $140.47 / hour

If you're ready to be part of our legacy of hope and innovation, we encourage you to take the first step and explore our current job openings. Your best is waiting to be discovered.

Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview
The Manager - Advanced Practice Providers (APP) provides administrative and clinical practice leadership to and manages APPs (Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Clinical Nurse Specialists, and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) in select areas of Stanford Hospital and Clinics. In collaboration with the Director of Advanced Practice, the APP manager will participate in developing structured APP associated metrics for assessing outcomes of APP care and quality of care metrics; in ensuring that APPs meet various state and federal regulatory agency requirements, and ensure that APPs participate in cost-savings and revenue-generating practices.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

Manages assigned staff and functions by assigning work, developing work procedures consistent with hospital policy, establishing work schedules and monitoring work performance performed by subordinates in order to meet agreed-upon goals, objectives, and target dates.
Performs management functions by interviewing and hiring staff members; providing or arranging for training for subordinates; evaluating performance; and recommending or initiating personnel actions such as promotions, transfers, merit salary increases, or disciplinary action in order to ensure adequate and competent staffing as well as initiating or recommending responses to employee grievances.
Participate in or lead efforts to assess outcomes of APP care throughout SHC.
Ensure that APPs meet or exceed various local, state, and federal regulatory agency requirements.
Ensure that APPs throughout SHC have evidence-based practices that support cost-savings and revenue generating inititatives.
Collaborates with the Director of Advanced Practice to create, support, or lead initiatives to improve the work environment of APPs throughout SHC.
Support the shared leadership model of shared governance and participate in Magnet activities.
May also participate in a clinical practice.

Education Qualifications

Master's Degree ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE: MASTER'S DEGREE IN NURSING OR OTHER HEALTHCARE-RELATED FIELD FROM AN ACCREDITED UNIVERSITY
Bachelor's Degree PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT: BACHELORS DEGREE IN SCIENCE, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDIES, OR HEALTHCARE RELATED FIELD FROM AN ACCREDITED UNIVERSITY.

Experience Qualifications

Five (5) years of experience as a licensed advanced practice provider: (Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist or Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist)
Management experience Preferred

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Management principles and practices such as, but not limited to, employee hiring, evaluation, counseling, and termination; budgeting; and employee recognition and rewards.
Practice evaluation and process improvement.
National professional organizational and regulatory agency initiatives.
Standards of care and practice of APP roles.
Knowledge and demonstrated clinical competence and in depth knowledge in specialty.
Knowledge of the organization and operation of trauma services necessary to ensure the delivery of quality, cost-effective and efficient patient care.
Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with widely diverse groups, including individuals at all levels both within and outside the organization and gain their cooperation.
Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, work independently and meet deadlines.
Ability to promote a spirit of inquiry and practice based on evidence by using research based knowledge or research utilization methods to identify and implement innovations in patient care and/or participating in research, clinical investigatory or quality projects.
Ability to use educational strategies to influence the development of staff and the provision of quality care for patients and families.
Communicate effectively in many venues from individual 1-on-1 sessions to a large audience.
Recognize/reward or counsel staff.
Have strong written and verbal communication skills.
Conduct efficient and supportive process improvement activities.
Contribute positively, proactively, and adeptly in institution-wide and Center of Advanced Practice initiatives.
Translate and implement national initiatives at SHC.
Ability to work full-time.

Licenses and Certifications

PA - Physician Assistant State Licensure or
RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure And/Or Compact State Licensure and
NP - Nurse Practitioner or
CNS - Clinical Nurse Specialist or
CRNA - Certified Nurse Anesthetist

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:

Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $106.01 - $140.47 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.

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