Description
Job Schedule : Full Time
Standard Hours : 40
Job Shift : Shift 1
Shift Details : Mon-Fri
Our Amazing Team
We have 10 epileptologists and 3 APPs all dedicated to helping people live well despite epilepsy and seizures
3 neurosurgeons help us provide highly advanced surgical treatments
Psychiatry, social work, neuropsychology, and epilepsy nurses round out our wraparound care
We pride ourselves on our teamwork, partnership and emphasis on patient and care team wellness.
Our Strong Program
The program serves a large population with a variety of complex epilepsy diagnoses, using a team approach toward seizure management, wellness, and prevention.
We offer our APPs personalized on boarding, mentorship and career development
Our outpatient teams offer whole life care to help people control seizures and live their best lives
We offer the full range of diagnostic testing and treatments for people with seizures, including surgical treatments and brain stimulator implantations
Our APPs are highly involved in our program, providing direct patient care, input to pre-surgical evaluations, stimulator management, and program improvement projects.
We conduct regularly scheduled educational opportunities including Grand Rounds, journal club, guest lectures
Our APPs are active participants, collaborating with care partners and providing education for nurses, EEG techs, and the general community.
The epilepsy physician assistant or nurse practitioner collaborates with a high functioning team of providers to primarily provide follow up with patients who present with seizures and epilepsy as well as participation in our Refractory Epilepsy Surgical Conference and Journal Club.
Shift
Full Time - Daytime schedule with no weekends, overnight call, or holidays.
60% of time in the outpatient department clinic split between Hartford and Enfield
40% of time inpatient at Hartford Hospital supporting in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit.
APPs collaborate closely with specific doctors to provide personalize care for our clinic patients
Wonderful Employer
Hartford Healthcare is committed to diversity and inclusion, and ensuring all employees have a voice. The program serves a large population with a variety of complex epilepsy diagnoses, using a team approach toward seizure management, wellness, and prevention.
Opportunities for career advancement both hospital wide and system wide
Competitive compensation, matching 401k, tiered medical, and CME reimbursement
Access to HHC’s Provider Leadership Development Institute
Eligibility to apply for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
There are no limits to what you can achieve when you join the Epilepsy Center at Hartford HealthCare. The extensive capabilities of the most integrated healthcare system in CT offers Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants MORE OPPORTUNITY as you practice with nationally respected colleagues in a progressive, physician-led environment.
Our broad network includes seven acute care hospitals including one of the largest academic and surgical hospitals in the northeast, thriving community teaching hospitals, and one of the largest multi-specialty medical groups in New England with more than 1,000 providers.
This means MORE OPTIONS to propel your career to new heights and all within a deeply embedded culture of inclusion, innovation, and focus on the highest quality of care.
We are teachers, researchers, innovators, leaders and, most of all, caregivers.
Located between Boston and New York City, Connecticut offers you and your family access to a lifestyle that is second to none.
Enjoy the finest schools in the nation, four beautiful seasons of recreational activities, and options to live at the shore, in leafy suburbs, or in vibrant urban areas.
To put MORE LIFE IN YOUR LIFE, apply today!
Qualifications
Eligibility to be licensed in Connecticut as a Physician Assistant (PA), or Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), is required.
Eligibility to be certified as a Physician Assistant (PA), or National Board Certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP), or Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) is required.
Neurology / Epilepsy experience as a PA, NP, clinical student, or RN is preferred.