ST. CHARLES MEDICAL GROUP
ADVANCE PRACTICE PROVIDER JOB DESCRIPTION
TITLE: Advanced Practice Provider - Surgery (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant)
REPORTS TO POSITION: SCMG Chief Medical Officer
DEPARTMENT: SCMG Surgical Specialists
DATE LAST REVIEWED: November 2023
OUR VISION: Creating America's healthiest community, together
OUR MISSION: In the spirit of love and compassion, better health, better care, better value
OUR VALUES: Accountability, Caring and Teamwork
DEPARTMENT SUMMARY: St. Charles Surgical Specialists employs certified general surgeons with varying levels of experience, certification, and fellowship training as well as advanced practice providers. We offer general surgery, bariatrics, endoscopy, pH/Manometry, with sub- specialties in colorectal surgery, robotic surgery, and breast surgery. St. Charles Surgical Specialists provides surgical care throughout Central Oregon with clinics located in Bend, Redmond, Prineville, and Madras.
POSITION OVERVIEW: Surgery - Advance Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner and/or Physician Assistant) -- Bariatrics-focused role is responsible for providing medical and surgical services under the general supervision of the Chief Physician Officer and Executive Medical Director and direct supervision of designated physicians. In this role, the APP will provide first assist in the operating room with all aspects of General Surgery including open, laparoscopic and robotic techniques including bariatric, colorectal, and breast operations. Provides both inpatient and outpatient care that includes daily rounding, orders, post-op instructions and discharge summaries, clinic consultations and post-operative office visits. Clinic patients will primarily be post-bariatric follow up patients,but may also include other general surgery post op conditions. Clinic locations may include Bend, Redmond, Madras and Prineville.
Work Schedule: Provider shall be a full time exempt provider. Which requires a minimum of forty hours of inpatient and outpatient contact per week. This will generally be four 10-hour days scheduled as a blend of hospital rounding, procedure time and scheduled clinic visits recognizing that the minimum requirement may fluctuate up or down based on direct patient care.
Call Expectation: Provider is expected to participate in the first-call coverage for Bend and Redmond inpatient and outpatient questions and concerns during regular scheduled work hours in each of the assigned locations; this is shared equally by all the APP's in the group . Providers are expected to participate in the weekend call rotation covering both Redmond and Bend inpatients, as well as outpatient phone calls, which is shared by the APP in collaboration with a Surgeon. The call expectation is approximately once every 4-6 weeks.
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