Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Primary Care

Job Summary:

Geisinger is seeking an exceptional Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our Primary Care team beautiful in Muncy, Pa.

Job Duties:

Geisinger Community Medicine has much to offer, allowing you to live well in both your professional and personal life:

• $10k recruitment incentive

• Forty-minute appointments for our senior patient population

• Daily huddles with all care team members to review essential information about schedules, patients, resource needs, and coordination of care

• Pharmacists to assist with patient education and medication management

• Care managers, health managers, clinic health associates, and coding educators work collaboratively with providers

• Increased access to care by means of eVisits, patient portals, and Geisinger’s ConvenientCare urgent care clinics

With Geisinger, you can also take advantage of the following:

• Competitive compensation package & benefits including a $10k recruitment incentive, a robust 401(k) retirement plan, CME, relocation, and more! To learn more about our extensive benefits, click here.

• Academic opportunities are available via advanced practice preceptorship.

• Better quality of life - Enjoy the fresh air, short commutes, a lower cost of living, and tight-knit communities in our respective regions across Pennsylvania. To learn more about living in our service area, click here.

• Satisfaction of working for a nationally recognized, physician-led healthcare organization committed to leading healthcare change. To learn more about Geisinger’s many accolades, click here.

Position Details:

The successful Physician Assistant candidate will work under the responsibility and supervision of the physician and require completion of an ARC-PA (or predecessor organization) approved physician assistant program, current NCCPA certification or eligibility, and Pennsylvania State licensure.  

Education:

Master's Degree-Physician Assistant (Required)

Experience:

Certification(s) and License(s):

Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing Body, Certified Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)

Skills:

Care Management Knowledge, Clinical Policies And Standards, Health Information Documentation, Patient Assessment And Care, Patient Safety, Patients Rights

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

• KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
• EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
• LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
• INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
• SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family. 

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.

We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all.  We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.

Geisinger Medical Center Muncy is part of a clinical joint venture between Geisinger and Highmark Health to expand access to care for those who need it most in a four-county region covering Clinton, Lycoming, Sullivan and Tioga counties. The new campus will be a fully-licensed, hospital with an emergency department and a full range of specialties and services. For more routine care, the healthplex will include a multispecialty clinic with adult and pediatric primary care, orthopaedics, cardiology, ophthalmology, pulmonary services and women’s health services. For hospital care, the Muncy Township facility will also house a state-of-the-art operating suite and 20 inpatient beds. Opening Dec 2021, this facility will provide a unique opportunity to delivery quality care to patients in the Lycoming county area.

Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, offers the appealing attributes of the city of Williamsport and the charm and atmosphere of small town living. Discover how much this region has to offer, including a wide variety of outdoor recreational activities such as hiking, biking, kayaking and skiing. Enjoy it’s great dining, local festivals, community events and active arts/cultural scene in the downtown Williamsport area. Lycoming County has one of the highest concentrations of top ranked public schools in Pennsylvania and is home to two colleges- Lycoming College and Pennsylvania College of Technology, a Penn State Affiliate. Philadelphia, New York City and Baltimore are all within a few hours drive.