Advanced Practice Provider Cardiac Anticoagulation, Pediatric Heart Center

When you join us, youll become a part of a nationally recognized health system dedicated to our mission of helping people live the healthiest lives possible.

About this Role

As a pediatric Advanced Practice Provider (APP) on the Cardiac Anticoagulation Service, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team dedicated to caring for children with complex heart disease in a high-volume, dynamic heart center.

The Cardiac Anticoagulation Service is both an inpatient and outpatient consultative service. We serve an average of 100 outpatients, and our inpatient service supports an average of 63 ECMO patients and 15 VAD patients annually. In this role, you will work closely with intensivists, cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, pharmacists, other APPs, and nursing staff to optimize outcomes for patients requiring anticoagulation therapy and/or mechanical circulatory support.

Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) are accountable for the provision of patient care at the top of licensure, within their scope of practice. Licensed, credentialed and privileged to perform such duties as:

• Manage pediatric patients within the heart center requiring anticoagulation, including consultation, diagnosis, and management.
• Developed standardized practices including protocol maintenance and development
• Educate patients, patients families, clinical staff, and others regarding all aspects of care.
• Consult and coordinate with other healthcare providers.
• Opportunities to participate in quality improvement, clinical research, and professional development

About our Heart Center located at Primary Childrens Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT:

• Located in the beautiful foothills overlooking Salt Lake Valley, Primary Childrens is the childrens hospital of Intermountain Health, and the pediatric specialty teaching hospital for the University of Utah School of Medicine.
• With more than 10+ specialty service lines at Primary Childrens, the center serves as the only provider of comprehensive care to children and adults with congenital heart disease within the Intermountain footprint.
• We are a nationally recognized Heart Center program by U.S. News and World Report.
• Within Primary Childrens Heart Center, there are more than 60+ highly skilled physicians and 30+ APPs who work to treat the most complex congenital heart conditions, and are supported by more than 400 caregivers, including medical assistants, cardiac sonographers, nurses, perfusionists, respiratory therapists, social workers, genetic counselors, child life specialists, and more.
  

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.

What youll bring:

• Previous experience with pediatric patients is highly valued, particularly experience caring for chronic illness, medically complex cases, inpatient, and/or cardiovascular disease or mechanical circulatory support.
• Utah license as a Physician Assistant (PA) or an Advance Practice Registered Nurse (APRN).
• Board Certification as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
• Utah State Controlled Substance License
• Federal DEA Certificate II through V
• PALS and BLS Certification for Healthcare Providers
  

About us:

Intermountain Healthis a model health system by 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