Advanced Practice Provider - Urgent Care

About the role

Seattle Children’s Hospital is seeking a dedicated, patient-centered Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) to join our dynamic Urgent Care team. In this role, you will evaluate and manage pediatric patients independently up to their 21st birthday, presenting with a wide array of acute, non-life-threatening illnesses and minor injuries. Operating within a collaborative, multidisciplinary, team-based environment, you will work across our Seattle Main Campus and Everett (North Campus) locations. We offer flexible FTE arrangements ranging from 0.6 to 0.9 FTE, tailored to suit your professional goals and work-life preference.

Why Seattle Children's? Work-Life Alignment: Flexible FTE options (0.6 to 0.9 FTE) designed around your scheduling preferences. Multi-Site Experience: Practice across urban main campus settings and community-based regional clinics. Pediatric Excellence: Join a nationally recognized, Magnet-designated pediatric health system committed to high-quality care, health equity, and family-centered medicine.

Responsibilities

• Direct Patient Care: Provide comprehensive, high-quality clinical evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment for pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients presenting with acute illnesses (e.g., flu, RSV, asthma flares, respiratory distress) and minor injuries (e.g., lacerations, sprains, suspected fractures).
• Independent & Collaborative Practice: Autonomously manage a fast-paced clinical patient volume while functioning as an integral member of an interprofessional Urgent Care team consisting of physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff.
• Procedures & Clinical Decision-Making: Perform minor procedures common to pediatric urgent care (such as wound closure/suturing, splinting, nasal suctioning, and simple foreign body removal). Order and interpret point-of-care lab tests and urgent diagnostic imaging.
• Virtual Urgent Care Integration: Participate in telemedicine video visits as needed, expanding patient access across Washington State.
• Patient & Family Education: Deliver compassionate, family-centered communication and discharge education, including advice on medication dosages (e.g., acetaminophen, ibuprofen), inhaler/spacer usage, and red-flag symptoms requiring emergency evaluation.
• Care Coordination: Document clinical encounters promptly in the EHR and ensure continuity of care by coordinating visit summary notes with primary care providers within 24 hours of care delivery.