Nurse Practitioner - Neurological Surgery

About this role:

As an Advanced Practice Provider in Neurosurgery, you will work with a large system-wide team of healthcare professionals committed to providing quality care and excellent patient experience. The neurosurgery team at St. George Regional Hospital currently has 3 neurosurgeons, and 7 neurosurgery advanced practice providers. Neurosurgery is part of a larger neurosciences team at St. George, including neurohospitalists, inpatient and outpatient physical medicine physicians, outpatient neurology providers, and pain specialists.

St. George Regional Hospital is a level II trauma facility with a Primary Stroke Center and is Joint Commission accredited as a Spine Center of Excellence.

In this role, you can anticipate:

• Practicing at St. George Regional Hospital in St. George, Utah
• 4 10-hour shifts per week; split between clinic, hospital, and OR
• Call 1:6-8 weeks, including nights and weekends (additional compensation offered)
• Working alongside neurosurgeons while also seeing patients independently in clinic
• Rounding on patients independently and in conjunction with a supervising physician
• Assessing, evaluating, diagnosing, and developing treatment plans for patients with neurological conditions
• Educating patients on conditions, treatment options, and risk factor modifications

An ideal candidate for this position will have prior APP experience and thrive in a dynamic, patient-oriented environment.

How we'll support you:

We care about your well-being which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package. In addition, we offer paid time off, license reimbursement, malpractice insurance coverage, and an annual CME allowance to support your continuous growth and development.?Learn more about ourcomprehensive benefits package, including a relocation allowance.

What youll bring:

• Graduate from an accredited Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner program
• Licensed as PA or NP in the state of Utah or able to obtain
• Board certification by AANP, ANCC or NCCPA
• Current BLS for healthcare providers
• DEA and full prescriptive authority in Utah
• Ability to successfully complete Intermountain Healths credentialing process

About us:

Intermountain Health is a model health system providing extraordinary care and superior service at an affordable cost. We are an integrated not-for-profit system of 33 hospitals, 385 clinics, and a medical group with more than 5,000 employed physicians and advanced practice providers across seven states in the mountain west.

Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us. Learn more about our Mission, Vision, and Values at: About Intermountain!

What does it mean to be a part of Intermountain Health?

It means joining the Power of We, building an environment where providers and caregivers can deliver the best in healthcare. Realizing each caregiver and volunteer is vital to providing care to our patients, because WE can only achieve the extraordinary together. Committed to the best in research and most advanced technology, the results are better clinical patient outcomes.

Life in Southwest Utah

St. George is located within sculpted red rock desert valleys that are nestled below pine covered mountain peaks. The area is surrounded by multiple national parks and is a top destination with its year-round warm weather and favorable climate, golf courses, outdoor recreation opportunities and collegiate town environment.

St. George is in the top ten fastest growing cities in the United States with a population of 171,000 according to BusinessInsider.com. To accommodate the rapid growth, St. George Regional Medical Center is a level II trauma center, recently expanding to 336 inpatient beds, has more than 320 physicians on staff, serves southern Utah, northern Arizona, and Nevada.