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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.
One Advanced Practice Provider will be selected for this position; both qualified NNPs and PA candidates will be considered for one (1) APP opening.
Location
AdventHealth Castle Rock Level III NICU
Position Status
48 hours per pay period
Shift
24-hour shifts
6 shifts in a six-week block
Salary Information
Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.
Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $134,414.53 to $201,621.80
Eligible Incentives
This position is eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $20,000 for qualified external applicants
Relocation assistance 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.
PA maintains clinical competency (ability to independently manage and perform at a high level, and takes personal responsibility for obtaining competency as needed).
Orders, prescribes, and/or performs appropriate treatments, therapies, and procedures based on current knowledge, research, and practice. Monitors and evaluates effects of interventions and orders.
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
Degrees Bachelor's Degree
Master of Physician Assistant studies (MPA) or Master of Science in Physician Assistant studies (MS-PA)
Experience 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. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.
Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
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Estimated Close Date
10/25/2026
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