Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Behavioral Health

About the role

• Location: Geisinger Behavioral Health Danville
• Shift: Days (United States of America)
• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
• Worker Type: Regular
• Exemption Status: Yes

Job Summary

Geisinger is seeking a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) or Physician Assistant (PA-C) to join our team supporting care for adults and adolescents based at the Geisinger Behavioral Health Center in Danville, PA. This provider will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality, patient centered care.

Job Duties

• Perform comprehensive medical assessments.
• Provide medication management, evaluations, and daily patient rounding.
• Develop and implement treatment plans in collaboration with psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, therapists, and case managers.
• Document all care in the Epic electronic health record.
• Participate in treatment team meetings and coordinate care transitions.
• Communicate with families, caregivers, and community providers as needed to support continuity of care.

Practice Environment

• Patient population: 75% adult, 25% pediatric (age 14+)
• Daily encounters: 10–16
• Resources include onsite pharmacy and phlebotomy services; EHR is Epic

Work Schedule

• Rotating 3 days on, 4 days off; 4 days on, 3 days off

Why Advanced Practitioners Join Geisinger

• Competitive Salary
• Advanced Practice Council – dedicated support for APPs and students
• Professional Development – internal programs and tuition reimbursement
• Teaching & Precepting Opportunities
• Continuing Medical Education – 10 days and $3,000 annually
• Relocation Assistance
• Benefits – including liability coverage, retirement plans, relocation assistance, and more!

Qualifications

The successful Nurse Practitioner candidate will work in collaboration with the physician and have a certificate of completion from an approved program for Nurse Practitioners or be eligible to hold national certification that allows the NP to work with the patient populations and location settings associated with this position. Must be eligible for licensure as a nurse practitioner in the state of PA.

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.

Preferred

• Minimum 1 year of clinical experience
• Experience using Epic

Education

Master's Degree-Nurse Practitioner (Required), Bachelor's Degree-Physician Assistant (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s)

Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing BodyDefault Issuing Body, Certified Nurse Practitioner - American Academy of Nurse PractitionersAmerican Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Licensed Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) - RN_State of PennsylvaniaRN_State of Pennsylvania

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.

Additional information

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.