Advanced Practice Provider Lead - Gastroenterology

Essential Job Statements

Clinical practice - Provides outstanding and comprehensive care and serves as a role model for care delivery to team members.

Hiring/ training - Participates in hiring and training APP personnel, including appropriate screening, hiring, and onboarding. Develops and maintains competency-based orientation for APPs in their division, working with specialty department staff.

Performance management - Ensures the clinical team is functioning optimally. Adheres to standards of practice and provides the necessary support to maintain/advance a high-performing team. Completes annual evaluations (FPPE/OPPE, annual performance evaluation) in partnership with collaborating physicians. Sets goals for improvement that align with departmental and APP's professional goals. Implements improvement plans as needed. Provides mentorship to APP team members or aligns mentorship support within the clinical service.

Efficiency/productivity - Aware of current care delivery in practice settings and works with practice leadership to support setting processes to optimize efficiency, streamline work, and support practice changes. Partners with clinicians and medical/administrative leadership to optimize clinical workflow and best practices for designated patient populations.

Quality/Outcomes - Participates on PI Committees and PI initiatives as indicated, works to correct process variations in conjunction with practice leadership, and leads the team toward improvements in clinical outcomes. Knowledgeable about benchmarking and best practice standards. Actively participates in system-wide hospital committees as appropriate.

Scheduling - Ensures adequate coverage to meet patient needs. Create monthly and vacation schedules that ensure coverage is maintained fairly and equitably. This may be delegated to practice site managers in clinical departments with multiple practice locations.

Engagement - Builds a cohesive, positive, professional, advanced practice team with opportunities for growth and development, who practice at their highest level of license. Develops a process to support the optimization of the scope of practice. Acts as a liaison to APP team members, ensuring there is a structure for communication, information sharing, and a process for addressing APP needs

Academic/Preceptorship - Works with the staff (as applicable) and supports their education and research. Actively involved with workforce planning and supports student rotations and precepting of future APPs.

Documentation/Billing - Supports the department's expectations for clinical documentation and the APP team's accountability to meet them. The lead APP is a resource to practice leadership, partnering with coding and compliance to optimize timely and appropriate documentation. Works to ensure compliance and periodically audits for accuracy. Performs follow-up when appropriate if issues arise.

Professional Development - Participates and partners with the APP Leadership team to elevate the stature of APPs.

Skilled in conflict management and able to collaborate with HR Business Partner and clinical team to implement necessary changes or recommendations.

Maintains current clinical competencies in their assigned area of expertise.

Completes department or division-specific responsibilities as allocated.

Patient Population

Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide equitable care appropriate to the age of the patients served on their assigned unit.

Demonstrates knowledge and related competencies of the principles of growth and development of the life span and possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interprets the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to their age, specific needs and to provide the equitable care needed as described in departmental policies and procedures.

Employment Qualifications

Required Education:

Master's degree from an accredited program

** If the APP Lead is a Nurse, the master's degree must be in Nursing from an accredited nursing program

Preferred Education:

N/A

Licensure/Certification Required:

Virginia licensure from the appropriate Board as an APRN or PA.
National certification from an appropriate certifying body

Licensure/Certification Preferred:

N/A

Minimum Qualifications

Years and Type of Required Experience

Previous mentoring and/or clinical leadership experience

Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

Strong communication, negotiation, and conflict management skills.

Excellent organizational, time management, and follow-through skills.

Builds relationships with department staff, organizational leaders, and staff across VCUHS

Ability to work collaboratively and cooperatively.

Action-oriented, with a demonstrated ability to break complex issues into action steps, articulate a plan, and effectively execute.

Knowledge of hospital standards and benchmarks

Cultural Responsiveness

Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias

Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Preferred:

Four or more years of experience in the APP role

Two years within the department and or specialty area

Academic Health Care experience

Working Conditions

Periods of high stress and fluctuating workloads may occur.

Must be willing to lead and commute across VCUHS entities.

General office environment.

Required to car travel to off-site locations, occasionally in adverse weather conditions.
May be exposed to limited hazardous substances or body fluids. *

May be exposed to human blood and other potentially infectious materials. *

May have periods of constant interruptions.

Physical Requirements

Physical Demands: Lifting/ Carrying (0-50 lbs.), Push/ Pull (0-50 lbs.), Push/ Pull (50-100 lbs.), Stoop, Kneel, Squat, Balance, Bending

Work Position: Sitting, Walking, Standing

Additional Physical Requirements/ Hazards

Physical Requirements: Manual dexterity (eye/hand coordination), Perform shift work, Hear alarms/telephone/tape recorder, Reach above shoulder, Repetitive arm/hand movements, Finger Dexterity, Color Vision, Acuity - far, Acuity - near

Hazards: Depth perception, Exposure to moving mechanical parts

Mental/Sensory -Emotional

Mental / Sensory: Strong Recall, Reasoning, Problem Solving, Hearing, Speak Clearly, Write Legibly, Reading, Logical Thinking

Emotional: Fast-paced environment, Able to Handle Multiple Priorities, Frequent and Intense Customer Interactions, Noisy Environment, Able to Adapt to Frequent Change

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