Neonatal Physician Assistant AdventHealth Castle Rock

Job Overview

The Physician Assistant (PA) specializes in family-centered care for infants and toddlers up to age 2, covering all aspects from primary to critical care. Collaborating with healthcare teams, they provide comprehensive services such as history-taking, physical examinations, diagnosis, treatment of acute and chronic conditions, and management of illnesses. This includes ordering and interpreting lab tests and imaging studies, prescribing medications and durable medical equipment, and facilitating necessary referrals. The PA also emphasizes health promotion, disease prevention, and educates patients and families. They play a leadership role within interdisciplinary teams, promoting effective communication, mutual respect, and collaborative decision-making to ensure high-quality patient care. Integrating the latest evidence-based practices with clinical expertise and patient preferences, the PA strives to deliver optimal healthcare at the organizational level.

About the Role

This position is eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $20,000 for qualified external applicants and relocation assistance is available if relocating from 100 miles or greater.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Family Centered Care: Consistently integrates age specific and culturally diverse concepts into patient care, considering the patient’s chronological age and developmental functioning while advocating for the wishes, capabilities, and resources of the family/caregiver.
• Provides patient/family/caregiver with diagnostic & laboratory results as well as actual/potential benefits, limitations, & adverse effects of proposed therapies.
• Teamwork & Collaboration: Provides leadership in care management to achieve optimal quality, cost-effective care. Documents & communicates with healthcare team members to achieve an integrated delivery of pediatric care services. Makes appropriate referrals and discusses recommendations with patient/family/caregiver.
• Quality Improvement: Participates in quality improvement activities or research to improve the care delivery process & patient care outcomes; Uses & communicates results to initiate change in practice.
• Safety: Is mindful and judicious in monitoring safety, utilizing departmental policies and procedures, utilizing evidence-based practice, and demonstrating critical thinking for patient care management.
• Informatics: Uses information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error and support decision making.
• Leadership: Takes action to achieve goals identified during performance appraisal & peer review, resulting in changes in practice & role performance. Contributes to the professional development of peers/colleagues to improve neonatal health care & to foster the profession’s growth; Integrates ethical considerations & research findings into practice. Serves as a leader, influencing healthcare/APN practice & policy.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master of Physician Assistant studies (MPA) or Master of Science in Physician Assistant studies (MS-PA)
• One (1) year of neonatal fellowship or one year of APP/PA experience in a neonatal setting. Circumcision procedure experience preferred.

Licenses & Certifications

• BLS Certification required (AHA, Red Cross, or ASHI) with at least 6 months remaining before expiration.
• Neonatal Resus Program (NRP) Certification
• Board Certification as Physician Assistant
• COLORADO PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT LICENSE
• Prescriptive Authority License

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career. As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April. Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.