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Job Summary

Geisinger’s Nutrition and Weight Management Department is seeking an advanced practitioner to join our team at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA.

Job Duties

This Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant will provide services to patients and families in the Nutrition and Weight Management Clinic in accordance with established organizational policies and professional standards. This role will include evaluating and taking care of patients who will be undergoing a cutting-edge endoscopic weight loss procedure.

This position will work in collaboration and supervision of the physician, diagnostic and therapeutic tasks to allow the physician to extend his/her services through the more effective use of the physician assistant's knowledge in the sphere of decision making required to establish a diagnosis and plan therapy. Meets the qualifications to provide care for patients in the specific age range on her/his assigned clinical area.

Performs duties to provide the highest level of patient care and maximize patient satisfaction.

Duties include:

+ Help with patient evaluation, patient coordination, and growth of endobariatric program. Working with advanced endoscopist team in managing patient is in bariatric process and postprocedure.

+ Evaluating patients with obesity and developing a treatment plan including conservative management (diet and behavioral changes), pharmacotherapy, and/or bariatric procedures (endoscopic and surgical options).

+ Evaluating patients with malnutrition and working with physician and registered dietitian to develop treatment plans.

+ Gastrostomy tube management

Reports to the Nutrition and Weight Management lead Advanced Practitioner.

Previous experience in bariatrics and/or nutrition preferred.

Work is typically performed in an outpatient clinical environment .

Position Details

Education

Master's Degree-Physician Assistant (Required)

Experience

Certification(s) and License(s)

Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing Body; Certified Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.

We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.