Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner (APRN) / Infectious Diseases Bridgeport

Description

Job Schedule: Full Time
Standard Hours: 40
Job Shift: Shift 1
Shift Details: M-F

Excellence, Safety, Caring, Integrity….What do you value?  

Join us at Hartford HealthCare Medical Group as we live our values every day. As part of Hartford HealthCare we create a better future for healthcare in Connecticut and beyond. By embodying these values, we have become nationally respected for patient care and most trusted for personalized coordinated care. Come be part of something special!

Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is one of the largest medical practices in New England with multiple locations throughout Connecticut and Rhode Island. Hartford HealthCare Medical Group consists of a team of professionals ranging from Medical Assistants to Physician Assistants and everything in between.  This physician led medical group enjoys an excellent reputation with patients and the medical community, offering primary care, urgent care and more than 30 different specialties.

Infectious Disease opening in Connecticut
Location: Bridgeport, CT
50 miles to Manhattan, NY

• Full Time
• Physician assistant licensed or eligible for licensure in the state of CT.
• Reports to and works under the supervision of the Director of Infectious Disease
• Inpatient consultations at St Vincent’s Medical Center
• Outpatient office including outpatient HIV and Hepatitis C patient treatment

There are no limits to what you can achieve when you join the Infectious Disease Team at Hartford HealthCare. This means MORE EXPERTISE AND COLLABORATION to propel your career to new heights. We are teachers, researchers, innovators, and, most of all, caregivers.

Our broad network includes seven acute care hospitals including St Vincent’s Medical Center, the second largest hospital within the system. The extensive capabilities of the most integrated system in CT offer physicians MORE OPPORTUNITY to practice with nationally respected colleagues in a progressive, physician-led environment. 

 

 Ideally situated between Boston and New York City, Connecticut offers you and your family the finest schools in the nation.  It is a state with four beautiful seasons of recreational activities which allows any activities for beach-goers to skiers to leaf watchers with options to live at the shore, in leafy suburbs, or in vibrant urban areas. 

 

Advanced Practitioners Enjoy

At Hartford HealthCare newly graduated and experienced providers are provided with the support and mentorship they need to succeed through on the job, classroom, and procedural training. Our benefits include: 

·        Extremely competitive salary

·        Matching 401k, tiered medical, dental, and vision plans 

·        Generous Paid-Time Off

·        Reimbursement for CME, professional society membership, licensure, and malpractice

·        Tuition reimbursement program

·        Proven and effective onboarding with supportive ongoing mentorship 

·        Access to Hartford HealthCare’s Office of Advanced Practice - an internal organization committed to the growth and development of our Advanced Practitioners

·        Leadership development opportunities through Hartford HealthCare’s Professional Leadership Development Institute

 

 

Qualifications

§  Advanced Practitioner Requirements

§  Master’s Degree in Nursing

§  National Certification in Advanced Practice and current CPR certification

§  Current State of CT APRN license with prescriptive authority and current DEA number

§  Excellent clinical management skills and proven ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and take lead when appropriate

§  Positive, customer-focused approach, with commitment to providing excellent patient care

§  Excellent written and verbal communication skills.  Ability to communicate in other languages - highly desirable

§  Ability to communicate technical information clearly to patients of all ages

§  Highly organized with demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize competing tasks with full autonomy

§  Knowledge of computer systems, including experience with medical software (Epic)