Advanced Practice Provider - Sedation Team (MAST)

Seattle Children’s Anesthesiology Department is seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our Mobile Anesthesia Sedation Team (MAST). This dynamic, all-APP team provides mild and moderate sedation for a variety of procedures across the hospital, radiology, and ambulatory patient areas.

Responsibilities

• Procedural Sedation: Provide comprehensive, hands-on patient care throughout the entire continuum of mild and moderate sedation for pediatric procedures.
• Acute Clinical Interventions: Utilize critical and acute care provider experience to perform essential clinical skills, including starting IVs, administering medications, and continuously monitoring airways.
• Pre- and Post-Sedation Assessment: Evaluate pediatric patients prior to procedures to ensure they are appropriate candidates for sedation, and manage recovery to ensure safe discharge or transfer.
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Partner seamlessly with physicians, nurses, and technologists across radiology, ambulatory clinics, and inpatient areas to facilitate smooth and safe procedural workflows.
• Family Education & Support: Educate patients and families on the sedation process, addressing anxiety, minimizing the stress of needles/procedures, and providing clear recovery instructions.
• Safety & Quality: Adhere to rigorous pediatric anesthesia safety protocols and participate in continuous quality improvement initiatives within the MAST service.

Requirements

• Master's degree in nursing with a concentration in a pediatric or family nurse practitioner program OR graduate of a nationally accredited physician assistant program.
• One year work experience in a pediatric or family focused clinical area.
• For Nurse Practitioners: Active, unencumbered registered nurse and advanced registered nurse practitioner licensure in the State of Washington. Current national certification as a pediatric or family nurse practitioner.
• For Physician Assistants: Active, unencumbered physician assistant licensure in the State of Washington. Initial certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
• For All Providers: Active Drug Enforcement Authority registration.
• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Professionals is required at time of hire and to be maintained continuously throughout employment. American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) will also be accepted in lieu of BLS for Healthcare Professionals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two years experience in advanced practice provider role.
• Two years experience in pediatric health care.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate brings prior provider experience in a critical or acute care setting, with demonstrated expertise in core clinical procedures—including starting IVs, administering medications, and monitoring and managing pediatric airways.

Benefits

Seattle Children’s offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 403(b), life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.

Pay

Compensation range: $82,392.85 - $121,176.97 per year for a 0.6 FTE. Compensation will be pro-rated based on final FTE. This position is eligible for relocation assistance for qualified candidates.

This compensation range was calculated based on full-time employment (2080 hours worked per calendar year). Offers are determined by multiple factors including equity, skills, experience, and expertise, and may vary within the range provided.

Schedule

Enjoy scheduling flexibility with customizable FTE options ranging from 0.25 to 0.6 FTE. External candidates joining Seattle Children’s are required to take a 0.6 FTE role.

Location & Deployment

Deployment is mobile across Seattle Children’s main hospital campus, providing point-of-care sedation directly in various procedural, radiology, and ambulatory spaces where patients need it most.

About Us

Hope. Care. Cure. These three simple words capture what we do at Seattle Children’s—to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible.

Our founding promise to the community is as valid today as it was over a century ago: we will care for all children in our region, regardless of the families’ ability to pay. Together, we deliver superior patient care, advance new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research, and serve as the pediatric and adolescent, academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho—the largest region of any children’s hospital in the country.

U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Seattle Children’s among the nation’s best children’s hospitals. For more than a decade, Seattle Children’s has been nationally recognized in key specialty areas. We are honored to be one of the nation’s very best places to care for children and the top-ranked pediatric hospital in Washington and the Pacific Northwest. As a Magnet designated institution, we recognize the importance of hiring and developing great talent to provide best-in-class care to the patients and families we serve.

Our organizational DNA takes form in our core values: Compassion, Excellence, Integrity, Collaboration, Equity and Innovation. Whether it’s delivering frontline care to our patients in a kind and caring manner, practicing the highest standards of quality and safety, or being relentlessly curious as we work towards eradicating childhood diseases, these values are the fabric of our culture and community.