Advanced Practice Provider, Oncology Per Diem - Smilow Cancer Center

About the Role

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values—integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion—must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.

Smilow serves as the clinical facility for the esteemed Yale Cancer Center, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, the only NCI-designated site in Connecticut. The Smilow enterprise includes the Cancer Hospital in New Haven and 16 ambulatory locations across Connecticut and Rhode Island. Smilow Cancer Hospital treats more patients than any other hospital in Connecticut and is QOPI accredited by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Smilow Cancer Hospital is on the cutting edge of personalized medicine, offering a comprehensive approach to patient care with the latest scientific advances in treatment and clinical trials.

Institutional Member of Advanced Practitioner Society for Hematology & Oncology (APSHO). Advance Practice Provider Clinical Ladder.

Why Choose Yale New Haven Health?

• Excellent work environment with flexible schedules to ensure work-life balance.
• Focus on improving clinical care, outcomes, patient satisfaction, safety, value, clinical research, and education.
• Career advancement opportunities for professional growth within our esteemed healthcare system.
• Enhanced compensation package, including a sign-on bonus.
• Relocation assistance for a seamless transition.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Pension plan, matched tax-sheltered annuity plan, and Roth contributions.
• Employee wellness initiatives and support programs.
• Professional development and continuing education opportunities.

Yale New Haven Health includes Yale New Haven, Bridgeport, Greenwich, Lawrence + Memorial, and Westerly hospitals; several specialty networks; and Northeast Medical Group, a physician-led multi-specialty group with over 1,000 physicians.

Responsibilities

Clinical Care

• Provides assessment, triage, and therapeutic management of patient and family needs throughout the disease process as an integral member of an interdisciplinary team.
• Provides optimal patient care in inpatient, ambulatory, and outpatient settings, from diagnostic through prognostic management.
• Works in collaboration with the attending supervising/collaborating physician(s) in accordance with state law, hospital regulations, hospital policy, protocols, and clinical pathways.
• May provide autonomous, team-based care as appropriate.
• Obtains medical histories, performs physical examinations, orders and reviews diagnostic and therapeutic tests and radiologic results, and formulates and manages patient treatment plans.
• Performs procedures and prescribes treatments and medications in accordance with institutional and state guidelines and within specialty scope and professional competency standards.
• May function as a first or second assistant on operative cases, utilizing fine motor skills and manual dexterity, when within position scope and educational and credentialing requirements are met.
• Responds to emergency situations within YNHHS parameters.

Patient Education & Psychosocial Support

• Educates patients and families on care plans and recommended or available resources, including admitting instructions, treatment plans, actual and potential side effects of treatments and medications, and discharge planning.
• Provides psychosocial support to patients, family members, and significant others in a caring, ethical, and professional manner as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Information Management

• Ensures appropriate documentation in accordance with hospital and regulatory requirements.
• Protects patient information in all forms, including electronic, paper, film, voice, or other media, from unauthorized access, modification, destruction, or disclosure.

Quality Management

• Demonstrates a high standard of moral and ethical behavior, professionalism, compassion, and commitment to patient care.
• Ensures compliance with patient-related healthcare regulatory requirements, standards, and recommendations.

Professional Development

• Engages in activities and projects that maintain and advance professional competency.
• Serves as a clinical resource for new house staff and may provide service-specific orientation related to clinical education.
• Demonstrates high-reliability organizational behaviors, including reporting safety events and near misses.
• Maintains all employee requirements as determined by hospital policy.
• May serve as a clinical preceptor for NP/PA students and other healthcare professionals and may mentor pre-PA/NP candidates.
• May collaborate on research, quality assurance, and performance improvement initiatives and assist in the development of protocols that support clinical practice and professional growth.

Qualifications

Education

• Graduate from an accredited Nurse Practitioner or an accredited Physician Assistant Program.

Experience

• Prefer clinical working experience as an NP/PA within the given specialty/service line, but none required.
• APRNs, PAs, CRNAs, and CNMs are required to be appointed to the Affiliated Medical Staff of a YNHHS Hospital and credentialed through the Medical Staff process.
• Evidence of current competence to practice must be obtained during the Medical Staff appointment process to be eligible.

Licensure

For Physician Assistants:

• Active PA Certification by the National Commission of Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
• Connecticut State Physician Assistant License.
• ACLS/BLS Certified, when indicated for position profile.
• DEA License, when indicated for pediatric position profile.
• PALS, when indicated for neonatal care.
• NRP Certification.

For Nurse Practitioners:

• Connecticut State Registered Nurse License.
• Connecticut State Nurse Practitioner License.
• Board specialty certification, as appropriate for position profile.
• ACLS/BLS Certified, when indicated for position profile.
• DEA License, when indicated for pediatric position profile.
• PALS, when indicated for neonatal care.
• NRP Certification.

Additional licensure, certifications, and/or continuing education credits may be required during employment based on position and area of specialty.