Advanced Practice Provider Manager, Professional Development Specialist

National Jewish Health, located in the heart of Denver, Colorado in the beautiful Rocky Mountains, is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider to serve in a leadership position as an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Manager and Professional Development Specialist.

This position includes 50% time in clinical practice at National Jewish Health in a specialty that aligns with their education, training and experience, and 50% administrative time for leadership responsibilities. The APP Manger will oversee approximately 25 APPs across several specialty practice areas. The position also includes developing and implementing educational programs to support APP onboarding, continuing education, mentorship, professional development, and post-graduate fellowship.

We are seeking an APP with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Additional qualifications include experience leading APP teams, and developing, implementing, and evaluating APP educational programs.

Essential Duties

1. Manages and develops an effective staff: providing effective communication, leadership, guidance and resources. Determines staff qualifications and competency: recruits, interviews, selects, hires, trains, orients, mentors, evaluates, coaches, counsels, disciplines, and rewards. Establishes and monitors staff safety and regulatory compliance.
2. Partners with Organizational, Department, and/or Division to track APP productivity and quality metrics.
3. Partners with Division and interdisciplinary leaders to optimize APP roles and practice models at top of scope. 
4. Participates in Department, Division, and/or organizational quality initiatives to identify improvements and implement changes as needed.
5. Serves as communication liaison to APP Leads and staff regarding all clinical and administrative issues and concerns.
6. Represents APPs at leadership meetings and ensures APP participation and engagement with AP Council and other organizational committees.
7. Contributes to APP workforce planning and program development.
8. Partners with Executive Director of Advanced Practice to establish structured onboarding, continuing education, and mentorship program for APPs to ensure appropriate preparation for professional roles throughout the career trajectory.
9. Develops an onboarding & orientation program to prepare new APPs for their clinical role expectations and support APPs with expanded scope of practice expectations. 
10. Develops a structure and process for evaluating competencies and educational resources to address knowledge gaps.
11. Develops a mentorship program to support APP professional growth across the career trajectory.
12. Collaborates with academic leaders to establish a post-graduate fellowship for subspecialty practice.
13. Performs and documents history, physical exam, and medical decision making to support plan of care.
14. Utilizes appropriate clinical resources to support evidence-based practice decisions.
15. Collaborates with physicians, APPs, and all members of the care team to optimize patient care quality, safety, and efficiency. 
16. Seeks out expertise of physicians and APP colleagues to support medical decision making as needed.
17. Adheres to all regulatory requirements, organizational policies, and Medical Staff Bylaws governing advanced practice.
18. Maintains continuing education to support knowledge and competencies required for clinical practice.

Other Duties

1. Participates in Department, Division, and organizational committees.
2. Participates in Advanced Practice Council meetings and activities.
3. Accepts additional responsibilities which are within the scope of the APP Manager to support the strategic priorities of the organization.
4. Accepts additional responsibilities which are within the scope of the APP to support the needs of the Department/Division/Program.

Competencies

1. Accountability: Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health.
2. Coaching and Teaching Others: Providing timely guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas needed to accomplish a task or solve a problem.
3. Ethics: Practices ethically; demonstrates compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth and unique attributes of all people; advocates for healthcare consumer’s rights to informed decision-making and self-determination; maintains therapeutic relationships and professional boundaries; safeguards privacy and confidentiality of healthcare consumers, and their data and information.
4. Informing and Communicating:  Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
5. Collaboration/Teamwork: Cooperates with others to accomplish common goals; works with employees and across his/her department to achieve shared goals; treat others with dignity and respect and maintains a friendly demeanor; values the contributions of others.
6. Professional Development: Actively identifies learning opportunities to support CRNA competencies; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill to enhance contribution to the organization.
7. Evidence-based Practice and Research: Integrates evidence and research findings into practice; Articulates the values of research and its application relative to the healthcare setting; identifies questions in the healthcare setting and practice; uses current evidence-based knowledge, including research findings, to guide practice; incorporates evidence when initiating change in practice.
8. Quality of Practice: Contributes to quality clinical practice: Ensures practice is safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, and patient centered; identifies barriers and opportunities to improve safety, effectiveness, efficiency, equitability, timeliness, and patient centeredness; recommends strategies to improve quality and safety.

Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility
Manages 10-25 employees

Travel
Travel between NJH sites of practice for APPs as needed.

Core Values

1. Be available to work as scheduled and report to work on time.
2. Be willing to accept supervision and work well with others.
3. Be well groomed, dressed appropriately for your role and wear ID Badge visibly.
4. Comply with all departmental and institutional policies, the Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct and completes NetLearning by due date annually.
5. Fosters an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual differences are valued and leveraged to achieve the vision and mission of the institution.
6. Adheres to safe working practices and follows all institutional and departmental safety policies and procedures. 
7. Wears appropriate PPE as outlined by the infection control policies and procedures.
8. Demonstrates compliance with all state, federal and all other regulatory agency requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Education: Graduate degree from accredited Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) or Physician Assistant (PA) program required. Doctoral Degree preferred. 
2. Work Experience: Minimum three years of clinical experience working as an APP. Two years of progressive leadership experience, and experience developing and implementing APP educational programs.
3. Special Training, Certification or Licensure: Colorado RN, APRN, and RXN licensure or PA licensure required. Active DEA registration. APRN or PA certification by national accrediting body (ANCC, PNCB, NCCPA). Active BLS, ACLS, or PALS appropriate to clinical practice area.

Salary Range: $120,000 - $170,000

Benefits
At National Jewish Health, we recognize that our outstanding faculty and staff are the essence of our organization. For every aspect of health care, our employees are our greatest asset.

With that in mind, we have designed a valuable, comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and their families.

• Medical Plans, Dental Plans and Vision Insurance
• Retirement Plan
• FSA and HSA
• Short and Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance and AD&D
• Voluntary Benefits, like Accident Insurance, Critical Care and Hospital Indemnity
• Paid Time Off Accruals
• Wellness Program
• Legal Plan